derwiki

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.

oinopion

-- Create a group
CREATE ROLE readaccess;

-- Grant access to existing tables
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO readaccess;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readaccess;

-- Grant access to future tables
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO readaccess;

LeCoupa

# Redis Cheatsheet
# All the commands you need to know


redis-server /path/redis.conf  # start redis with the related configuration file
redis-cli                      # opens a redis prompt


# Strings.

rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

diegopacheco

sudo apt-get install -y libgflags-dev libsnappy-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libzstd-dev
git clone https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb.git
cd rocksdb/
make all

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

joshuap

Jumpstart + Heya

• https://github.com/excid3/jumpstart
• https://github.com/honeybadger-io/heya
• Follow Josh on Twitter for development updates

This creates a 4-part email series to welcome users who sign up for your Jumpstart app. The first email is sent immediately, and the following emails are sent 2 days apart.

This guide assumes you meet Jumpstart's requirements.

ismasan

# A Pipeline extension to process steps concurrently
# Example
# class ConcurrentPipeline < Pipeline
#   include ConcurrentProcessing
# end
#
# MyPipeline = ConcurrentPipeline.new do |pl|
#   pl.step ValidateInput
#
#   # These steps run concurrently