Al conducted regular Rails upgrade maintenance on 15-19 projects over the last 16 months, upgrading 77 gems with 380 gem upgrades during 7 cycles in July and August 2014. This included fixing two ActiveRecord SQL vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL, submitting an upgrade pull request from Rails 3.2.11 to 4.1, and upgrading rspec on all projects. Al also fixed an i18n warning and reported an i18n typo.
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ATLRUG GiveBack Announcements - August 2014
1. Al's Rails Upgrade Research
● Conducting regular upgrade maintenance on 15-19 Rails [2.3, 3.0, 3.1,
3.2, 4.0, 4.1] projects/repos for 92 cycles over the last 16 months.
● Upgraded 77 gems (62 unique gems) with 380 gem upgrades during 7
cycles between 7/2/2014 and 8/10/2014.
– Fixed “two ActiveRecord SQL related Rails Security Vulnerabilities affecting
PostgreSQL” on 12 projects.
– Submitted RailsGoat “Rails 3.2.11 to 2.19 upgrade” pull request.
– Upgraded rspec to 2.99.0 or 3.0.x on all repos.
– Fixed i18n warning. Reported i18n typo in error message.
By Al Snow – al@RailsUpToDate.com - Keeping web sites upgraded and up-to-date.
2. ATLRUG Giveback August 2014
Announcements
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Surplus Mac Minis – 9 machines with Mavericks; 1 machine with Ubuntu 14.10
– Still decide on how to use these machines.
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Status on ATLRUG (http://www.atlrug.com) web site – stable
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Status on Emerald City (our Study Group) – “No update on Emerald City this month.”.
Probably start back up in September.
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Upcoming Hackathons
– Aug.14-15: Unblight: Macon ($55)
– Aug.19-Sep.23: Hack-Back Invitational: Aug. 19 (Kickoff) to Sep. 23
– http://links.tagonline.mkt5943.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTA0MzAzMTAS1&r=NTY0ODY3NjgyMTES1&j=MzIzMTkxMjgwS0&mt=1&rt=0
– Aug.21: ATLRUG Nerd Club (7pm)
– Aug.26: Civic Hack Night meetup (7pm; IronYard; ATV)
– Aug.28: http://musichackatl.com (9/5-7/2014/ATV; Aug.28 deadline)
– Sep.12-14: Hack4good (Climate Change theme) – no ATL event yet – have follow-up FYI
By Al Snow – al@RailsUpToDate.com - Keeping web sites upgraded and up-to-date.
![Al's Rails Upgrade Research
● Conducting regular upgrade maintenance on 15-19 Rails [2.3, 3.0, 3.1,
3.2, 4.0, 4.1] projects/repos for 92 cycles over the last 16 months.
● Upgraded 77 gems (62 unique gems) with 380 gem upgrades during 7
cycles between 7/2/2014 and 8/10/2014.
– Fixed “two ActiveRecord SQL related Rails Security Vulnerabilities affecting
PostgreSQL” on 12 projects.
– Submitted RailsGoat “Rails 3.2.11 to 2.19 upgrade” pull request.
– Upgraded rspec to 2.99.0 or 3.0.x on all repos.
– Fixed i18n warning. Reported i18n typo in error message.
By Al Snow – al@RailsUpToDate.com - Keeping web sites upgraded and up-to-date.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/atlrug-giveback-2014-aug-140815083410-phpapp01/85/ATLRUG-GiveBack-Announcements-August-2014-1-320.jpg)
