#security

Mar 2017 · 1 min read · 1 comment

Turn Off SSL Verification In Ruby

The following code will disable SSL verification when using Open SSL. OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFYPEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFYNONE It is probably not a good idea to do this in production. But if you are...

Mar 2010 · 2 min read

Adding Public/Private Key Pairs on Mac OS X and Ubuntu for Passwordless Remote SSH Sessions

On your local machine cd into the .ssh directory in your home "/" directory. If it doesn't exist you can create it with "mkdir /.ssh". Next generate your public/private keys and copy the public key...

Dec 2009 · 1 min read

Placing an Authenticity Token in a Rails Form

Aug 2009 · 1 min read

Change default ssh port number on Ubuntu

Login as the root user or as a user that can execute sudo commands. Find the line that reads Change this to an different and an available port number... Next reload ssh You won't be kicked out of...

Jul 2009 · 1 min read

Email Obfuscation and Extraction from Text with Rails

There is a helper method for handling the obfuscation of email addresses in Rails. If you want to then extract an email address(or all email addresses) from a block of text here is the code. I...

Mar 2009 · 2 min read

Rails, SSL, Ubuntu, Apache2 with Phusion on Ubuntu

Here are all the commands for setting up your Rails application to server requests over SSL -on Ubuntu, of course. There are great resources and tutorials at these websites....