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Home» Posts tagged "nginx"

Securing your web application with Nginx, Rails 3 and Namecheap SSL certs

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Jamie Lawrence in Ruby on Rails

Securing your web application with an SSL certificate is the least your users will expect you to do. Once upon a time, HTTPS sites were rare and even then, only the “private” parts beyond a login dialog were encrypted. Those times died with Netscape and they aren’t coming back. Here I’ll show you how to [...]

https, namecheap, nginx, rack-ssl-enforcer, rails, ssl, vagrant 1 Comment View Post

Speeding up Rails development

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Jamie Lawrence in Ruby on Rails, Tips & Tricks

A brand new Rails app is a joy to work on but over the past few weeks I’ve noticed the app getting slower in development as, in hindsight, I added more and more stylesheets and javascripts. The culprit, I quickly realised, was the asset pipeline. On each page refresh it was reloading all the assets, [...]

asset pipeline, nginx, rails No Comments View Post

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