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Scott Watermasysk

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Still Learning

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Deploying Octopress to Heroku With a Custom Buildpack

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Why is this important? It means no more committing the public directory into git.

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Even with just 200 or so posts, my git history felt like it was exploding every time I wrote a new post.

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I went ahead and nuked my old blog repo and recommitted this cleaner (and leaner) version if you need a starting place.

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Jason’s steps were great, but I did run into two snags:

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Octopress Linked List

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I have been meaning to implement this on my own for a while.

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I did make one minor adjustment David’s example. Instead of inlining the glyph, I am adding it via CSS:

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Async Emails With Sorcery

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For KickoffLabs, we rolled our own authentication. This worked really well, but doing it (even if we packaged it up) for future projects is less than appealing.

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I have used/tried Devise, Clearance, and AuthLogic but none of them seemed to fit.

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Enter Sorcery. Sorcery is a relatively new player in the rails authentication arms race.

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Heroku SSL via DNSimple

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If you google for Heroku SSL you will find a surprisingly long list of blog posts usually with many steps.

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However, it is actually much easier than what most of them list, especially if you are using DNSimple (note: affiliate link).

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Here is how to setup a Hostname Based certificate on Heroku:

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Static Files Using Sinatra::Base on Heroku

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I deployed a small Sinatra app last night to Heroku for the new KickoffLabs API.

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Most of the Sinatra apps I have deployed in the past have been small prototypes and used the inline Sinatra app style.

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However, in this case, I made the decision early on to use the Sinatra::Base class style since we plan on growing the API codebase (ie, we are going to keep it around for a long time).

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My Favorite Startup and Ruby Podcasts

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My taste in podcasts varies by what is actually going on in my life. Right now it is mostly startups (KickoffLabs) and Ruby.

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Here are my current favorites:

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Improving Automated Timezone Detection

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tl;dr - Just using the Javascript getTimezoneOffset to auto-detect timezone information will not work properly during daylight savings and has a couple of other minor gotchas. Check out the jsTimezoneDetect and my simple jQuery detect_timezone plugin for more accurate timezone information. I also put together a gem, detect_timezone_rails, to automate the process in Rails.

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Multiple Smtp Servers With Action Mailer

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We recently started using PostMark on KickoffLabs. So far the service has been excellent. Unfortunately, not all of our emails fit their terms of service. I looked around for how configure an addition SMTP server via Action Mailer (and Mail gem). Surprisingly, this is not supported.

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