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@leon
leon / play.conf
Created March 26, 2012 12:27
Upstart script for Play Framework 2.0
# Upstart script for a play application that binds to an unprivileged user.
# put this into a file like /etc/init/play.conf
#
# This could be the foundation for pushing play apps to the server using something like git-deploy
# By calling service play stop in the restart command and play-start in the restart command.
#
# Usage:
# start play
# stop play
# restart play
@zaius
zaius / background.sh
Created January 16, 2011 23:29
How to redirect a running process output to a file and log out
ctrl-z
bg
touch /tmp/stdout
touch /tmp/stderr
gdb -p $!
# In GDB
p dup2(open("/tmp/stdout", 1), 1)
p dup2(open("/tmp/stderr", 1), 2)
@gonecoding
gonecoding / Readme.markdown
Created February 22, 2011 12:42
Adding methods to NSData and NSString using categories to provide AES256 encryption on iOS

Important notice

I took down this Gist due to concerns about the security of the encryption/decryption part of this code (see comments below).

Rob Napier (@rnapier) has created a publicly available class that provides similar AES encryption/decryption functionality at https://github.com/rnapier/RNCryptor.

@josegonzalez
josegonzalez / access.lua
Created December 3, 2012 18:26
Simple lua file enabling oauth support for nginx via nginx-lua and access_by_lua.
- 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"
@renchap
renchap / README.md
Last active October 12, 2022 17:14
One-line certificate generation/renews with Letsencrypt and nginx

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 {
@mikeyk
mikeyk / redis_session_backend.py
Created April 8, 2011 18:01
A redis backend for Django Sessions, tested on Django 1.3+
from django.contrib.sessions.backends.base import SessionBase, CreateError
from django.conf import settings
from django.utils.encoding import force_unicode
import redis
class SessionStore(SessionBase):
""" Redis store for sessions"""
def __init__(self, session_key=None):
self.redis = redis.Redis(
@dvessel
dvessel / README.mdown
Last active May 15, 2020 13:18
Sass+Compass, Guard, LiveReload

This will enable Sass+Compass with LiveReload through Guard. (Guard screen cast)

You will also need a browser component to communicate with LiveReload. (browser extension, livereload.js)

If you prefer going through a GUI, that option is available. The following instructions is specific to Mac OS X and it works through the command line.

Note that this is not specific to Rails projects. This can work for any standalone front-end project.

Instructions

@DTrejo
DTrejo / top3stories.js
Created January 21, 2011 22:41
Gets top three articles from frontpage and newpage of Hacker News. Blog post on scraping: http://blog.dtrejo.com/scraping-made-easy-with-jquery-and-selectorga
// Scraping Made Easy with jQuery and SelectorGadget
// (http://blog.dtrejo.com/scraping-made-easy-with-jquery-and-selectorga)
// by David Trejo
//
// Install node.js and npm:
// http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/
// Then run
// npm install jsdom jquery http-agent
// node numresults.js
//
@ewalk153
ewalk153 / upgrade_postgres.bash
Created January 3, 2014 03:32
upgrade heroku postgres from crane to yanari
# 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
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…