William Albright ewilliam

Adding an audit log to your Rails app

If you have any sort of administrative interface on your web site, you can easily imagine an intruder gaining access and mucking about. How do you know the extent of the damage? Adding an audit log to your app is one quick solution. An audit log should record a few things:

controller entry points with parameter values
permanent information about the user, like user_id
transient information about the user, like IP and user_agent

Using the Rails framework, this is as simple as adding a before_action to your admin controllers. Here’s a basic version that I’m using in production.

brew install mutt
setup an app password for mutt in gmail
setup an app password for imap_notifier in gmail
brew install terminal-notifier terminal-notifier
gem install imap_notifier imap_notifier
brew install urlview
brew install w3m (links would be OK too)
Install pandoc to author in markdown and send as HTML

`~/.muttrc`

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

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	// Install Homebrew
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	// Figure out which channel you need to sniff:
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	#
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	class AfterSignupController < ApplicationController
	include Wicked::Wizard
	steps :create_organization, :create_event, :create_tiers

	def show
	case step
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	when :create_event
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	class Api
	class << self
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	def init_server
	if Auth.needlogin?
	AFMotion::SessionClient.build_shared(BASE_URL) do
	session_configuration :default

	header "Accept", "application/json"

	class people::jfryman {
	# Applications
	include chrome::stable
	include onepassword
	include dropbox
	include alfred
	include macvim
	include zsh
	include homebrew
	include fitbit

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#
	# cocoa_keypress_monitor.py
	# Copyright © 2016 Bjarte Johansen <[email protected]>
	#
	# The MIT License (MIT)
	#
	# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
	# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
	# “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including

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	<!--[if IE 7 ]> <html class="no-js ie7" lang="en"> <![endif]-->
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	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
	<meta name='description' content='{MetaDescription}'>
	<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">