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# File: app/controllers/api/api_controller.rb
class Api::ApiController < ActionController::Base
  # Consider subclassing ActionController::API instead of Base, see
  # http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/API.html
  
  protect_from_forgery with: :null_session
  before_action :authenticate
  
  def self.disable_turbolinks_cookies
    skip_before_action :set_request_method_cookie

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Deploying a Rails 3 App with EC2 + S3 + Ubuntu + Capistrano + Passenger
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EC2 Setup
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1 Launch New ec2 instance - ami-1634de7f
2 Create elastic IP [ELASTIC_IP] and associate it with instance
3 go to domain registrar DNS settings, @ and www to ELASTIC_IP
4 set the `:host` in `config/deploy.rb` to ELASTIC_IP

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How to setup Heroku Hostname SSL with GoDaddy SSL Certificate and Zerigo DNS
Heroku recently added an exciting new 'Hostname SSL' option.  This option offers the broad compatibility of IP-based SSL, but at 1/5 the price ($20 / month at the time of this writing).  
 
The following tutorial explains how to use Heroku's new 'Hostname SSL' option on your Heroku project.  Before we begin, let's list what we're using here:

    * Heroku Hostname SSL
    * GoDaddy Standard SSL Certificate
    * Zerigo DNS

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A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".