Jerod Santo

Cody and I recently added a subtle feature1 to Oma/Sprout that we think is pretty neat.

I published a lengthy post on The Changelog all about how we turned Trello1 in to a CMS for Weekly — our email newsletter that covers everything on our open source radar.

I’ve been quietly publishing a Bible podcast — hosted by myself and John Malone — since the start of 2014.

My vote for “GIF of the Year” goes to… There’s so much to love here.

Welcome to my fourth annual list of my favorite digital things!

Common need: show me all the commits that branch X has, but branch Y doesn’t.

I recently had the pleasure of presenting at Omaha Coffee & Code.

Step 1: Configure your router as the exceptions app Since Rails 3 you’ve been able to configure an app to handle exceptions, which you want to point right at your router.

It’s been ~18 months since my first Ruby Rebus challenge and, frankly, that’s just too long to ask y’alls nerds to wait.

A little over a year ago, I had the pleasure of helping my good friend1 Cody build the 3rd iteration of Omahype.

Welcome to the third annual (2011, 2012) list of my favorite digital things.

Rails 4 added a default X-Frame-Options HTTP header value of SAMEORIGIN.

ActiveAdmin and FriendlyId are both handy gems, but they don’t play nice together out of the box.

Up until now, my dev user on systems I’m building has been pretty predictable.

Have you ever needed to see how many times each element occurs in an array?

On the latest episode of ATP (and the “after dark” of the previous ep.)

One unfortunate drawback of how AngularJS’s dependency injection works is that it breaks when your code is minified.

One of CoffeeScript’s many virtues is built-in support for classes, inheritance, and super via the class keyword.

During the talk, I walked through building a little Angular app called Starlight.

Jonathon Kram has informed me that Kramdown does, indeed, support Footnotes.

I’ve been standing while I work for over two years now.

It’s been quieter around these parts lately1, but that’s not because I haven’t been writing.

If one of the files doesn’t have a newline at the end and you create the unified certificate (as instructed for StartSSL certs) like so: cat ssl.crt sub.class1.server.ca.pem ca.pem > /etc/nginx/conf/ssl-unified.crt Then you will end up with an error that…

I recently stumbled across a spectacular nose dive in public perception that I thought would make a fun diversion.

The new Omahype, which is a custom Rails-based CMS centered around Omaha-area events, has a separate blog that runs on WordPress.

We uncovered a Strange Thing when working on Omahype’s event listings.

If you ever find yourself in a foreign code base and want to get a quick overview of exactly how much code is in it, CLOC is just the tool for the job.

The public release (and open sourcing) of Discourse was the big news in the open source world last week.

Rack::Throttle is an awesome piece of Rack middleware for rate limiting your Rails / Sinatra / Rack app’s clients.

If you happen to find yourself using Rails-API, as I am.

redis-store’s redis-rails gem is awesome, but it can be a pain in the buttox to get configured on Heroku.

redis-store’s redis-rails gem is awesome, but it can be a pain in the buttox to get configured on Heroku.

There’s one thing that almost every web app and web site needs: static pages Many Rails users turn to a gem like Thoughtbot’s High Voltage to address this need.

Judofyr’s excellent collection of Hacker News threads with book recommendations made me want to see all of the best HN threads this year.

It’s that time of the year again, and I had so much fun writing up my favorite digital things last year that I thought I’d make a tradition of it.

Rails’ method of sharing data between controllers and views via instance variables bothers many developers.

I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of RSpec plus Capybara for integration testing my Ruby apps lately.

While packing for an upcoming conference, you think to yourself, “I know what I’ll do.

File this under just-blog-it-already-so-you-can-stop-googling-it Imagine having Nagios/Resque Web/Monit/Cacti/MySQL/etc all set up on one of your servers.

In 2009 I wrote a brief series of posts where I’d implement something in less than 15 lines of Ruby.

You may not know this about me, but I used to be a pretty wretched guy.

Regular expressions are great for matching many patterns, but they are usually not ideal when matching nested structures (recursive matching).

Last week I posted 20 Ruby Rebus puzzles promising a follow-up post with the answers.

One of my favorite things on the Totally Rad Show is their RADRebus segment.

iOS users rejoiced when Loren Brichter and Atebits returned to indie iOS development.

One difficulty of using Regular Expressions effectively is that each language has their own little idiosyncrasies that can get you in to trouble.

Mentions (being notified only when your name is referenced) are a great way to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high in group chats.

Me, on Twitter, a few weeks ago: My latest (soon-to-be-released) open source project is so niche that perhaps only I will use it, but I freakin’ love it. — Jerod Santo (@jerodsanto) August 27, 2012 What I was referring to is Push Pop, a system for pushing…

I’m excited to announce my first foray into business ownership!

Developing a bookmarklet that will run on iOS devices?