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Migrating User Passwords From Django to Ruby — Migrating user data between a Python and Ruby app isn’t particularly common but when you need to do it, how? It turned out to not be too tricky.

Save Your Links From Phishers — Define a special link helper to make links that prevent the remote site indulging in some ‘reverse tabnabbing’.

Testing an External API Integration with the VCR Gem — The briefest of introductions to the vcr gem, a way to ‘record’ and playback HTTP interactions – ideal for testing.

How to Store Large JSON Documents in Postgres with the Rails Attributes API — An interesting example of working with your own datatype in Rails.

A Double Splat (**) Operator Cheatsheet — Less a cheatsheet and more a collection of neat examples. The merge functionality for hashes is pretty neato, as well as being a bit faster than Hash#merge

Moving From Tagging with ActsAsTaggableOn to PostgreSQL Arrays — The Postgres database system natively supports arrays as a data type, so why not use them for tags?

How to Deploy AnyCable with Capistrano and systemd — AnyCable has billed itself as “Action Cable on Steroids” that can run in a separate process from your Rails app, so why not have systemd manage it?