gphat

require 'rubygems'
require 'railsless-deploy'

# Your application name
set :application, "someapp"

# We're not deploying from a repo, since this is scala and we
# need to compile. Set SCM to none
set :scm, :none
# Our deploy is to copy the contents of…

josegonzalez

- certain endpoints are always blocked
if nginx_uri == "/_access_token" or nginx_uri == "/_me" then
    ngx.exit(403)
end

-- import requirements
local cjson = require "cjson"

-- setup some app-level vars
local app_id = "APP_ID"

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

ewalk153

# this can be done anytime
heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:standard-yanari --app nav-chronos; heroku pg:wait
# about 3m30s

heroku maintenance:on
heroku ps:scale worker=0

heroku pgbackups:capture --expire
# less than 20 min

gist:4dcb6892346ff17709fe

RATE_LIMIT_SCRIPT = r'''
local now = tonumber(ARGV[1])
local required = tonumber(ARGV[2])
local rate = tonumber(ARGV[3])
local per_secs = tonumber(ARGV[4])
local do_subtract = tonumber(ARGV[5]) == 1
local full_at = tonumber(redis.call('GET', KEYS[1])) or 0
local score, result
if full_at < now then
    score = rate

chrismdp

# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

S3KEY="my aws key"
S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

function putS3
{
  path=$1

renchap

Prerequisites : the letsencrypt CLI tool

This method allows your to generate and renew your Lets Encrypt certificates with 1 command. This is easily automatable to renew each 60 days, as advised.

You need nginx to answer on port 80 on all the domains you want a certificate for. Then you need to serve the challenge used by letsencrypt on /.well-known/acme-challenge. Then we invoke the letsencrypt command, telling the tool to write the challenge files in the directory we used as a root in the nginx configuration.

I redirect all HTTP requests on HTTPS, so my nginx config looks like :

server {