December 2008
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setting up a simple git server
On the internet you’ll see people talking about Gitosis, or just giving over all of their git requirements to github.
Github is great, but if you just want to do a small personal project, with an off-site repository, go set up your VPS as your main git server.
Here’s how you do it.
create a “git” user
sudo adduser git
add your ssh keys to that user
ssh-copy-id...
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Rails + Rack Middleware
Rails just released Metal!
Giving us a great framework to build custom Rack processors alongside our application.
Check out this great article over at Soylent Foo.
Recently we had a problem where Microsoft Office was somehow issuing OPTIONS request to our site.
This was blowing up our RESTful controllers that weren’t invited to the OPTIONS party.
We played with Apache rewrites based on...