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It is said that really good programmers are orders of magnitude more productive than the average ones. What makes this the case? And why isn’t this the case in other industries? I believe the answer lies in that computers are very good at automation. And good programmers know how to make computers do what they [...]
Just as I was thinking of writing a plugin to filter sensitive data from request logs, I googled and found that the core guys had snuck something into the 1.1.6 release to do just that: read the blog. Sweet!
Some people are upset that database.yml can expose passwords in plaintext. However, there is a pretty simple way to get encryption into database.yml. Because the database.yml file is actually run through an ERB interpreter by Rails, we can put code into our file: ##### database.yml ##### production: adapter: oci username: user password: <%= PROD_DB_PASSWORD.decrypt(PROD_KEYFILE) %> [...]
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