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Adding an audit log to your Rails app

If you have any sort of administrative interface on your web site, you can easily imagine an intruder gaining access and mucking about. How do you know the extent of the damage? Adding an audit log to your app is one quick solution. An audit log should record a few things:

• controller entry points with parameter values
• permanent information about the user, like user_id
• transient information about the user, like IP and user_agent

Using the Rails framework, this is as simple as adding a before_action to your admin controllers. Here’s a basic version that I’m using in production.

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# lib/tasks/db.rake
namespace :db do

  desc "Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump"
  task :dump => :environment do
    cmd = nil
    with_config do |app, host, db, user|
      cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} --username #{user} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
    end
    puts cmd

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# The Nginx configuration based on https://coderwall.com/p/rlguog

http {

  ssl_certificate            server.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key        server.key;
  ssl_session_timeout        15m;
  ssl_protocols              SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_prefer_server_ciphers  on;
  ssl_session_cache          shared:SSL:10m;

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# Nginx+Unicorn best-practices congifuration guide. Heartbleed fixed.
# We use latest stable nginx with fresh **openssl**, **zlib** and **pcre** dependencies.
# Some extra handy modules to use: --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gzip_static_module
#
# Deployment structure
#
# SERVER:
#  /etc/init.d/nginx                             (1. nginx)
#  /home/app/public_html/app_production/current  (Capistrano directory)
#

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Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 5,676
• Octopress 2,696
• Middleman 685
• NestaCMS 664
• Statis 509
• Nanoc 355

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ActiveAdmin.setup do |config|
  # ...
  config.before_filter :revert_friendly_id, :if => -> { !devise_controller? && resource_controller? }
end

# override #to_param method defined in model in order to make AA generate
# routes like /admin/page/:id/edit
ActiveAdmin::BaseController.class_eval do

  protected

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is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion|Personally|In my view}, if all {webmasters|site owners|website owners|web owners} and bloggers made good content as
you did, the {internet|net|web} will be {much more|a lot more}
useful than ever before.|
I {couldn't|could not} {resist|refrain from} commenting. {Very well|Perfectly|Well|Exceptionally well} written!|
{I will|I'll} {right away|immediately} {take hold of|grab|clutch|grasp|seize|snatch}
your {rss|rss feed} as I {can not|can't} {in finding|find|to find} your {email|e-mail} subscription {link|hyperlink} or {newsletter|e-newsletter} service. Do {you have|you've} any?
{Please|Kindly} {allow|permit|let} me {realize|recognize|understand|recognise|know} {so that|in order that} I {may just|may|could} subscribe.
Thanks.|

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brew install flac ffmpeg cuetools  # ставим нужные пакеты
# скачиваем cuetag.sh скрипт, например отсюда https://github.com/gumayunov/split-cue/blob/master/cuetag
 
ffmpeg -i 1.ape 1.flac # конвертируем во flac, так как libmac для APE не ставится на osx
cuebreakpoints 1.cue | shnsplit -o flac 1.flac #нарезаем на треки
cuetag 1.cue split-track*.flac #прописываем тэги (cuetag.sh ставится отдельно отдельно)
 
#конвертируем в ALAC
for f in split-track*.flac
do 

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Todo.rb

Todo.rb is a simple command-line tool for managing todos. It's minimal, straightforward, and you can use it with your favorite text editor.

Getting Started

Todo.rb doesn't require any third-party gems so you can copy the file anywhere and use it as long as it's executable: