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.

ATLRUG Giveback August 2014 Announcements

● Surplus Mac Minis – 9 machines with Mavericks; 1 machine with Ubuntu 14.10– Still decide on how to use these machines.

● Status on ATLRUG (http://www.atlrug.com) web site – stable● Status on Emerald City (our Study Group) – “No update on Emerald City this month.”.

Probably start back up in September.● 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.