Tag Archives: ruby on rails

Passenger and ruby-oci8 (Oracle)

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Darian Shimy

Oracle is going to drive a man to drink.  After getting our rake migrations to run with this solution, our application had issues.  We run our Rails app in Passenger + Apache2.  After we deployed, we got this error: ERROR: … Continue reading →

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InvalidAuthenticityToken Error in Rails

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Darian Shimy

Working with a RESTful API in Rails can be a bit challenging at times.  One such problem is the ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken error.  This error is thrown when authenticity token is not present or invalid.  (This is how Rails protects itself from … Continue reading →

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How to handle security issues

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Darian Shimy

Brian Mastenbrook wrote a great article on the right and wrong way to handle security issues: Brian Mastenbrook: How I cross-site scripted Twitter in 15 minutes, and why you shouldn’t store important data on 37signals’ applications Looks like this was … Continue reading →

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