fnichol

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

tobym

function pwdx {
  lsof -a -p $1 -d cwd -n | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'
}

isaacs

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
mkdir ~/local
mkdir ~/node-latest-install
cd ~/node-latest-install
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
./configure --prefix=~/local
make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds...
curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

hlian

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
%w{rubygems hmac-sha1 base64 cgi net/https uri openssl}.each{ |f| require f }

KEY     = '<YOUR KEY>';
SECRET  = '<YOUR SECRET>';

# encodes strings that make twitter oauth happy
def encode( string )
  URI.escape( string, Regexp.new("[^#{URI::PATTERN::UNRESERVED}]") ).gsub('*', '%2A')
end

twoism

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
%w{rubygems hmac-sha1 base64 cgi net/https uri openssl}.each{ |f| require f }

KEY     = '<YOUR KEY>';
SECRET  = '<YOUR SECRET>';

# encodes strings that make twitter oauth happy
def encode( string )
  URI.escape( string, Regexp.new("[^#{URI::PATTERN::UNRESERVED}]") ).gsub('*', '%2A')
end

june29

require "uri"
require "rubygems"
require "eventmachine"
require "em-websocket"
require "yajl/http_stream"
require "json"
require "pit"

account = Pit.get("twitter", :require => {
                    "username" => "username",

erikeldridge

require 'oauth_util.rb'
require 'net/http'

o = OauthUtil.new

o.consumer_key = 'examplek9SGJUTUpocjZ5QjBJmQ9WVdrOVVFNHdSR2x1TkhFbWNHbzlNQS0tJnM9Y29uc3VtkZXJzZWNyZXQmeD0yYg--';
o.consumer_secret = 'exampled88d4109c63e778dsadcdd5c1875814977';

url = 'http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20social.updates.search%20where%20query%3D%22search%20terms%22&diagnostics=true';