The Loofah gem recently had a vulnerability reported which could potentially expose your application to a Cross Site Scripting attack. From https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16468 it reads In the Loofah gem for Ruby, through v2.2.2, unsanitized JavaScript may occur in sanitized output when a crafted SVG element is republished. Since the Ruby on Rails framework depends on rails-html-sanitizer and […]
Read MoreSetting the Name in From Emails in Ruby on Rails
Sending emails in Ruby on Rails is pretty simple and it is something that we often do not give much thought about if the emails are received. However, attention to detail is important. I too fell into this trap where I never took notice to the Name that was being displayed on emails that were […]
Read MoreUpdated to Mojave
MacOS 10.14 was released recently and updating the operating system of your development environment can be scary. Typically, I’ll wait some time before I update to ensure I don’t lose productivity. I took the plunge and updated and ran into a strange error where a library was missing. If you’ve upgrade to Mojave and try […]
Read MoreRuby on Rails 5.2.0 Deprecations
With Ruby on Rails 5.2.0.Beta2 out now, its release candidate and official release is probably right around the corner. In efforts to clean up some of the code base, some methods have been deprecated. If you have been keeping your apps up to date with the latest stable releases, chances are that you have noticed […]
Read MoreRevised Pricing Structure
Now that Drifting Ruby Pro Membership has been available for a few months now, I’ve gotten a lot of feedback. Some of the feedback has been great while other feedback is something I’ve tabled to look at in a future date. So to start the dialogue, how did we come up with the pricing? A […]
Read MoreSelf Hosting a Cloud IDE
This is the second post about self hosting. The previous post was about setting up a Sentry server for tracking application errors. I think that for non-critical applications or for a personal playground, having a home lab is the perfect place to test things out. My configuration is pretty simple, I have a few refurbished […]
Read MoreConfiguring a Sentry Server on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Sentry is an error tracking software product which has many different subscriptions options. Its software is open source and can be difficult to install if you are unfamiliar with the server side of things and hosting. They do offer a free hosted option for up to 10k events per month, 1 user and up to […]
Read MoreGoing Pro on Drifting Ruby
Update: New site launched! From now until Nov 25th, 2017, save on the Pro Membership! Get the Pro Membership for $15.00 USD per month while you maintain an active subscription. First Pro Episode is scheduled to be released on Nov 12th, 2017. The past few years have been a lot of work and fun! I’ve spent nearly every week […]
Read MoreA Tail of Debugging Issues
There have been many times when I’ve been debugging a complicated issue. More often than not, it was something crazy that I had done and it seemed like a good idea at the time. Whether it is a endless recursive loop or just a good ole bug in the code. We all have our own […]
Read MoreHacking content_for to create a simple display helper
Update: Check out https://www.driftingruby.com/episodes/benchmarking-and-refactoring-the-content_for-view-helper for a screencast update to this article where things are refactored to reduce technical debt. So, this isn’t probably even the best way to do this, but I was playing around in a side project and wanted to see what I could do to have some consistency throughout my application; specifically around the […]
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