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@masonforest
masonforest / gist:4048732
Created November 9, 2012 22:28
Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.

Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.

  1. Get an OAuth Token from GitHub

First you will need to get an OAuth Token from GitHub using your own username and "note"

@trcarden
trcarden / gist:3295935
Created August 8, 2012 15:28
Rails 3.2.7 SSL Localhost (no red warnings, no apache config)
# 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
@ecin
ecin / phantomjs_facebook.js
Created April 23, 2012 21:06
Log into Facebook with phantomJS
console.log("got here");
var page = require('webpage').create();
page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg) {
console.log(msg);
};
page.open("http://facebook.com", function(status) {
if ( status === "success" ) {
@masak
masak / explanation.md
Last active May 4, 2026 22:37
How is git commit sha1 formed

(The below text is licensed with CC0, which means that if you want to use or translate it, that is OK by me.)

Ok, I geeked out, and this is probably more information than you need. But it completely answers the question. Sorry. ☺

Locally, I'm at this commit:

$ git show
commit d6cd1e2bd19e03a81132a23b2025920577f84e37
Author: jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net>

Date: Sun Apr 15 16:35:03 2012 +0200

@peternixey
peternixey / securing_rails_updates.md
Created March 5, 2012 13:10
How Homakov hacked GitHub and how to protect your application by Peter Nixey

##How Homakov hacked GitHub and the line of code that could have prevented it


Please note: THIS ARTICLE IS NOT WRITTEN BY THE GITHUB TEAM or in any way associated with them. It's simply hosted as a Gist because the markdown formatting is excellent and far clearer than anything I could manage on my personal Tumblr at peternixey.com.

If you'd like to follow me on twitter my handle is @peternixey