NFT - NotForTourists travel guide

May 6th, 2008

NFT I somehow have to make the best out of it: I am back from my 2 weeks visit to ‘New York City’ …

And one of the best things that I can do now, is to give out a sincere recommendation for the book that helped us most in this jungle:

NFT - Not For Tourists guide to New York City

Even though, after I bought this book at Amazon and took at home a first look at it, I thought:

“Wueah, bad buy! This book is really nothing for tourists. Just much to much unstructured information - No way to filter the interesting stuff out”.

But standing somewhere in Manhattan this little black book showed it’s real power:

  • The map is just great! Much better than in any other travel guide I know. And for sure easier to handle than the big foldable ones.
  • Starving in Midtown, running from one $40+ restaurant to the next - Just take a look at NFT and you find your cheap bite in a great restaurant that looks like a hairdresser from the outside.
  • A lot of other addresses you will love if you want to leave the beaten tourist paths: bike rentals, transportation out of the city, not-so-known landmarks, ….

Further NFT guides are released for more U.S. cities. Hopefully this concept gets bigger and bigger and will swap over the oceans. It’s just a great book, for citizens and even for tourists.

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mod_rails - the tryout - the failure (for my situation)

April 14th, 2008

Some days ago, I have introduced you to mod_rails. I totally freaked out by the idea to let RoR running inside of Apache. Just without using FCGI or proxying Mongrel.

Though, I had not much spare time this weekend, I just had to try it out!

First of all:
You guys rock!!! These guys just impressed me how well-thought a first release version can be.
The whole setup and Apache configuration is so damn easy - you can’t go wrong. The setup script even detects missing linux packages and tells you exactly what to do, depending on the hosting distribution.

So I switched one of my RoR applications to mod_rails …..

But after using it for some minutes I got heavely disappointed. It is just no good hosting option for my situation: [My server is a Debian VPS with 265MB-768MB burstable]

The memory consumption the machine went up from 280MB (wo/ mod_rails) to over 700MB. So all my applications started vomiting, because there was no memory left. Only killing apache2 processes helped me to solve the situation.

So I thought, I will be a good guy and RTFM. I stepped across this configuration parameter:

RailsMaxPoolSize <integer>

The manual recommended to set this parameter to “2″ for servers with small memory footprint.

So I did, but it was no help. Same memory consumption by all apache2 processes.

The next step was to not include the mod_rails module in apache. No help, either. So mod_rails wasn’t even running anymore and the memory consumtption was still beyond the pale!

So, the only reason I can imagine, is that one of the newly installed gems (axpr?) and not mod_rails directly is causing that big memory mayhem.

Huh, restoring a backup of my server was the only help to get rid of the situation!!!

What do you think? What might be the cause of my situation?

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Phusion Passenger (a.k.a. mod_rails)

April 11th, 2008

As it seems a new star is born on the “Rails-How to-host” sky!
Phusion Passenger

After reading some posts, it seems to be a first rock-solid “mod_rails” implementation.
No Mongrel, no FCGI just a clever Apache module that hosts Rails directly out of your WebServer.

Just point your DocumentRoot to your public folder and there you go. Even restarting your application is damn easy:

touch /webapps/mycook/tmp/restart.txt

Even I can write a Capistrano recipe to do that!

And this statement is just the Killer for me:

Page caching is fully supported, without the need to configure mod_rewrite.

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to install it for the next 3 weeks, but I am looking forward to get this baby under test.

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Don’t let anyone take over a user account!

March 21st, 2008

Some days ago I stepped across this must-read tutorial:

Use attr_protected or we will hack you

To be honest: I really do not use all of these tips - I MUST do so!!

While reading it, some other do’s and dont’s came to my mind:

  1. Users are only allowed to edit his/her ‘personal data’
  2. Do not provide ’sensitive data’ via your REST XML response

1. Users are only allowed to edit his/her ‘personal data’
Just imagine, you are a user of an app and your user id is: 5.
With the url ‘/users/5/edit’ you may edit your ‘personal settings’.

Now try the url ‘/users/6/edit’.
Gosh!! It’s so easy to hijack another profile!

This is just a solution for my application. But I’m shure you get a hint what’s the idea behind it.

Of course, this does in most cases not only apply for the users resource.
You have to apply this pattern for all resources that are explicitly editable by one (…) user(s).

 

2. Do not provide ’sensitive data’ via your REST XML response
Rails is so great! Just look at following scaffold code - You get a REST XML interface by doing nothing!

def index
@users = User.find(:all)
respond_to
do |format|
format.html
# index.html.erb
format.xml { render :xml => @users }
end

But what will happen if one calls ‘/users.xml’ now?
The response will be a REST XML response with all non-private and private user data! Cool a list of all passwords, emails and credit card numbers of all your users!!!

def to_xml(options = {})
default_only = [:id, :name, :email]
options[:only] = (options[:only] || []) + default_only
super(options)
end

With overriding your to_xml() you just exclude the private data from your xml output!
Actually, after applying this recipe to my application I found it in this great book: Advanced Rails Recipes. Go for it!

I’m quite shure, the above code can be done more general, or just ported to a plugin. It’s just an advice what you have to keep in mind!

Come on! Now it’s your turn!
Some more recipes that apply to this topic!

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AJAX Rain - Javascript/DHTML repository

March 18th, 2008

AjaxRain

 

 

 

AJAX Rain - for me the first place to look at - if I want Javascript magic!

AJAX file uploads in Rails

March 14th, 2008

Ever tried to do a file upload in a remote_form_tag. I did! - And I failed.
Digged a little bit deeper what a XMLHttpRequest is allowed to do and then it was clear for me that it won’t work. But I didn’t wanted to let loose and then I found some ideas about “iframe remoting pattern” - This seems to sove the problem - But how to implement it in Rails?

This tutorial was great help! It explains how to do that stuff using attachment_fu and respond_to_parent.
It was just a walktrough!

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mongrel vs. FCGI

March 9th, 2008

I am running this blog and some RoR applications (mostly for internal use or in development status) here on Vanager.
It’s cheap, it rocks, but w/ every new Mongrel instance I am more and more running out of resources.

So I was searching for a cheap, cheap hosting solution for RoR applications with expected mediocre amount of hits - and came across this site!

But nearly all hosters in these Reviews use FCGI for hosting. Hey!! Mongrel is the state-of-the-art way how to host RoR.

So I started this discussion on GoogleGroups to get an idea if people recommend going with FCGI. I asked the following:

I have a virtual root server (monthly $10) running some RoR projects
with mediocre traffic by using MONGREL.
It ROCKS.

But with every new mongrel instance, I am getting closer to run out of
system resources.

The web is full of posts like:
FCGI is dead - Mongrel is the way how to do it.
But then you see a list of great WebHosting plans like this:

http://www.rubyonrailswebhost.com/

According to the reviews, it seems that these people know how to host RoR
But they are all using: FCGI

- do you think it is a good idea to get one of these hosting plans?
- does it scale - even if you are getting more traffic as expected?
- are there any other downsides using a webspace hosting over a root
server?

what do you think?

So after getting some real professional replies I came to the following conclusion:

Hey thanks, guys!

Just to sum it up:

Serving RoR via FCGI works, and is a reliable solution to host RoR
projects.
But you can’t expect that it will perform compared to Mongrel etc.

Perhaps you should take the name “Developer plan” serious and host
your production environment not via FCGI.

That’s what came to my mind reading the above posts. … and I am fine
with that!

And what do YOU think?

sphinx vs ferret

March 7th, 2008

In the past I was not quite happy using Ferret (for example). acts_as_ferret is cool, but I would have had to tweak it quite much to please my concerns.
In the meantime I switched to simple MySQL FULLTEXT indexing and I feel fine! (Will give you a post later on!)

By coincidence I stepped across this discussion in the  Deploying Rails Google Group .

It really doesn’t leave a good spot on Ferret.
Almost everyone agrees in this long discussion, that Ferret WILL bring you into trouble while using it in production.

Sphinx seems to be the new runner-up!

Prototip - Tooltips for prototype

March 6th, 2008

I was in need for a Javascript ‘Tooltips’ implementation.

My requirements:

  • allow complex HTML as content
  • should be based on Prototype (or no JS fwk - I don’t want to use any other JS libraries if I don’t need to)
  • easy code rendering using Rails 

There are some good implementations out there, but finally I have chosen Prototip.
I think the main reasons were:

  • feature rich
  • well documented
  • plenty of examples
  • tweaking CSS to customize the layout cannot be much more easier