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Logging Rails 4 to Syslog, formatted w/ Logstash

Getting Started

Steps to get Rails 4 saving its output to Syslog via Rsyslog. This assumes you are on CentOS, but should be pretty adaptable to any other distribution. Ruby 2.0+ is also required.

Add the gems lograge and logstash-event to your Gemfile. Feel free to remove from production if you'd like to test it in development as well or something.
Update production.rb with the lograge settings and set the logger to Syslog::Logger.
Add the conf files to /etc/rsyslog.d/. /etc/rsyslog.conf should have $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf enabled, so it will load any additional configs from /etc/rsyslog.conf.

Models, Roles, Decorators, and Interactions

A modest alternative to DCI that might be worth further thought

One of the problems with advancing the discussion on DCI is that we lack a comparable alternative pattern that has the same goals, but favors a low ceremony approach. The closest thing we have to that is Rails concerns, but they are more like distant relatives of the DCI concepts rather than first cousins, and that makes comparisions between the two approaches not especially fruitful.

I am considering the idea of experimenting with my own paradigm that captures the intent and purity of DCI, but with the convenience of concerns. Please note that this is just the starting point of a conversation, it is NOT a promise of comercially available cold fusion or a cure for cancer. It's just a gist with an idea on it I'd like to hear your thoughts on.

What if we had a top-level topology that was split into Models, **Rol

	#!/usr/bin/env python2
	"""
	Author: takeshix <[email protected]>
	PoC code for CVE-2014-0160. Original PoC by Jared Stafford ([email protected]).

	Supportes all versions of TLS and has STARTTLS support for SMTP,POP3,IMAP,FTP and XMPP.
	"""

	import sys,struct,socket
	from argparse import ArgumentParser

	task :workers => :environment do
	module Delayed
	class Worker
	def name_with_thread_id(*a, &b)
	name_without_thread_id(*a, &b) + " thread:#{Thread.current.object_id}"
	end
	alias_method_chain :name, :thread_id
	end
	end
	Rails.logger.info "Running threaded worker env."

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD

	## Prepare ###################################################################

	# Remove RVM
	rvm implode

	# Ensure your homebrew is working properly and up to date
	brew doctor
	brew update

	## Install ###################################################################

	require "i18n/backend/pluralization"
	I18n::Backend::Simple.send(:include, I18n::Backend::Pluralization)