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sl4m / OpenSSL fix.md
Created October 17, 2013 18:29 — forked from mislav/OpenSSL fix.md

The reason why you might get certificate errors in Ruby 2.0 when talking HTTPS is because there isn't a default certificate bundle that OpenSSL (which was used when building Ruby) trusts.

Update: this problem is solved in edge versions of rbenv and RVM.

$ ruby -rnet/https -e "Net::HTTP.get URI('https://github.com')"
net/http.rb:917:in `connect': SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3
  read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

You can work around the issue by installing a certificate bundle that you trust. I trust Mozilla and curl.

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jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

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sl4m / gist:5091803
Created March 5, 2013 16:57 — forked from trcarden/gist:3295935
create self-signed certificate for localhost
# SSL self signed localhost for rails start to finish, no red warnings.
# 1) Create your private key (any password will do, we remove it below)
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.orig.key 2048
# 2) Remove the password
$ openssl rsa -in server.orig.key -out server.key
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dergachev / GIF-Screencast-OSX.md
Last active April 28, 2025 00:02
OS X Screencast to animated GIF

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Screencapture GIF

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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peterkeen / ward.txt
Created November 29, 2012 16:50
Ward Cunningham on Pair Programming to the pdxruby mailing list
Subject: Re: [pdxruby] Re: Complex return value anti-pattern?
From: Ward Cunningham <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:23:26 -0800
Pair programming is often misunderstood.
To understand pairing one must examine the world views of programmers. For
many (perhaps all programmers historically) programming is difficult and re
quires skill and concentration to be successful. For others, and here we fi
nd roots in dynamic languages, programming is easy but requires imagination
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sl4m / Custom.less
Created October 5, 2012 00:24 — forked from bentruyman/Custom.less
Tomorrow Theme for Chrome Developer Tools
/**********************************************/
/*
/* Tomorrow Skin by Ben Truyman - 2012
/*
/* Based on Chris Kempson's Tomorrow Theme:
/* https://github.com/ChrisKempson/Tomorrow-Theme
/*
/* Inspired by Darcy Clarke's blog post:
/* http://darcyclarke.me/design/skin-your-chrome-inspector/
/*
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sl4m / tooling.md
Created May 28, 2012 16:09 — forked from jonkemp/tooling.md
URL's from Paul Irish's talk: Tooling & The Webapp Development Stack
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mbbx6spp / README.md
Created December 4, 2011 04:24
Best UNIX shell-based tools I can't live without with example usages

Best UNIX Shell tools

These are a list of usages of shell commands I can't live without on UNIX-based systems.

Install

Mac OS X

Using Homebrew (yes, I am opinionated) you can install the following tools with the following packages:

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sl4m / about.md
Last active December 11, 2015 15:38 — forked from jasonrudolph/about.md
Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer
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sl4m / gist:1013772
Created June 8, 2011 04:31
gst class hierarchy
Object
Behavior
ClassDescription
Class
Metaclass
BlockClosure
Boolean
False
True
Browser