- 2013-02-262 minInstalling Ruby 2.0.0 with Dtrace Support
The aim of this post is to guide the reader through the process of installing ruby 2.0.0 into rbenv with dtrace probes enabled. As rbenv uses ruby-build , which currently downloads and compiles a copy of openssl rather …
#007 - 2012-10-207 minWhat is HMAC Authentication and why is it useful?
To start with a little background, then I will outline the options for authentication of HTTP based server APIs with a focus on HMAC and lastly I will provide some tips for developers building and using HMAC based …
#006 - 2012-06-203 minBuilding Ruby Projects with Bundler and the Bamboo Ruby Plugin
The latest release of the Ruby plugin I develop for Atlassian Bamboo now includes some new configuration options for Bundler along with a number of other additions and improvements. In this post I want to focus on the …
#005 - 2012-06-113 minBundler gems and binstubs
I have been working on an update of my Bamboo ruby plugin which uses bundler to install all the gems for a given project within the working copy of the project and then run rake using these gems. The aim of this post is …
#004 - 2011-12-074 minTips for Bamboo Plugin Developers
Having recently developed a plugin (Ruby Rake Plugin ) for Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration (CI) server I thought I would put together a list of tips for those looking to do the same. As there are some …
#003 - 2011-07-242 minHacking rails on Ubuntu with rvm
Over the last few days I have been familiarising myself with some of the rails source code and surveying it for use in my own projects. In doing so I noticed there were quite a few gotchas getting Ubuntu and ruby set up …
#002 - 2010-12-062 minInstalling Ruby with RVM on Ubuntu 10.10
Been installing RVM on anything that runs *nix lately, ran into some issues with using this great tool on Ubuntu 10.10 . After a bit of reading I discovered a couple of solutions, either I could build and install some of …
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