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boonedocks··on Don't find out about Ruby vulnerabilities through Hacker News and Twitter
Brakeman is great. I think it should check the Gemfile also. Seems like a good place for it. The opinion is mixed though.

https://github.com/presidentbeef/brakeman/issues/276

A complementary command-line tool would be fine too.

boonedocks··on Hardening your Web Server's SSL Ciphers
Anyone else having trouble getting "export OPENSSL_NO_DEFAULT_ZLIB=1" to work on Apache 2.2.22, CentOS 5.9?

I have tried it in /etc/sysconfig/httpd and /etc/init.d/httpd (in start) and SSL tools still report that compression is on.

boonedocks··on What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup
I guess, at least for the most common gems, there could be an independent list which maps gem names to their Github repos. Of course, that list would have to be trustworthy. It would be nice to solve that mapping problem anyway, because sometimes it's not entirely clear which Github repo is the official source for a project.
boonedocks··on What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup
I'm not sure of the best way to go about it, but if all the dependency gems are also on Github, a script might be able to pull the SHAs from the right version of each dependency and return the proper entries for a Gemfile.
boonedocks··on Sucking at Retina
It seems like all the current hi res solutions are somewhat hacky. I recently did a project with foresight.js (https://github.com/adamdbradley/foresight.js) I like how it tries to estimate the connection speed before serving up a 2x image.
boonedocks··on Things I didn’t know about the WebKit inspector
Can anyone point to a guide for using the web inspector in Safari 6? It looks like it could be powerful, but it is not as user-friendly as the Safari 5 and Chrome inspectors. It feels like a step back.
boonedocks··on Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law
I got this informative error message: "Additional uncaught exception thrown while handling exception."
boonedocks··on Semaphore - Hosted Continuous Integration for Ruby and Rails
Looks good. I guess they beat Travis CI to the punch for testing private projects and taking payment for it. But it's Ruby only, at least right now. Maybe someday Github will just build this in with their 100 million.
boonedocks··on Retina.js: Retina graphics for your website
foresight.js looks more interesting since it takes the perceived connection speed into account when deciding to serve up 2x images. https://github.com/adamdbradley/foresight.js