John Bachir jjb

First, install your preferred version of postgres

sudo port install posgresql84

Now you have psql84 available, which rolls right off your fingers. Even better, your pg_config is buried in a postgresql84 namespace. Fix both of these with:

sudo port select --set postgresql postgresql84

Now you can intall the gem

you probably want this instead: https://gist.github.com/jjb/6928376

In my previous post I described how to securely acquire the Mozilla list of root certificates and convert them to a form usable by curl and various libraries which don't ship with them.

Next, I want to point Net:HTTP at this file library-wide, so that it is used by all invocations of methods accessing https resources (in particular, Kernel#open, which in ruby 1.8.7 does not have a ca_file option and is therefore unusable with https). I hunted around the ruby standard library for a couple hours and came up with this:

require 'open-uri'
require 'net/https'

module Net
 class HTTP

If you want to use curl or net-http/open-uri to access https resources, you will often (always?) get an error, because they don't have the large number of root certificates installed that web browsers have.

You can manually install the root certs, but first you have to get them from somewhere. This article gives a nice description of how to do that. The source of the cert files it points to is hosted by the curl project, who kindly provide it in the .pem format.

problem: Sadly, ironically, and comically, it's not possible to access that file via https! Luckily, the awesome curl project does provide us with the script that they use to produce the file, so we can do it securely ourselves. Here's how.

git clone https://github.com/bagder/curl.git
cd curl/lib
edit mk-ca-bundle.pl and change:

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	require 'timeout'

	begin
	Timeout.timeout(1) do
	# spending time doing, say, an IO operation accross the network
	sleep 2
	end
	rescue
	puts "Getting the big file took too long. Try again later."
	end

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<head>
	<title>title</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	<p>body</p>
	</body>

	foo = 1
	[2].each{\|foo\| }
	# in ruby 1.8, foo in this scope is now 2
	# in ruby 1.9, foo stays as it was before the block, 1. hooray!

	➔ whois apple.com

	Whois Server Version 2.0

	Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
	with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
	for detailed information.

	APPLE.COM.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
	APPLE.COM.WAS.PWNED.BY.M1CROSOFT.COM