I’ve been thinking long and hard about what I might be celebrating today. A lot has changed since the last 4th of July.

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This release implements tracking changes to short URLS with paper_trail.

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Previously in the series, I’ve focused on setting up and using Dokku. This post is less Dokku focused, and more on making sure that you keep all the precious data you generate and collect with the apps on it safe.

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In the first two posts of the series, I looked at setting up Dokku and setting up automated builds and testing with Codeship, Code Climate, and Hakiri. This one ties those two together and covers the process I’m using for automated deployments with Dokku and Codeship (and the gotchas I hit along the way).

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This release implements basic tracking of short URL usage. It tracks the following data:

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This release protects the application’s domain from being redirected to by the app to avoid possible infinite loops or inaccessible application routes.

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Last time in the Dokku series I went through how I set up Dokku on a VPS. This one is going to be about setting up Codeship, Code Climate and Hakiri (Ruby only, though the principles should be pretty similar for other languages/frameworks) to automate builds and testing. Should be a bit shorter, because there were fewer gotchas in this than in setting up Dokku (not that there were many there!)

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This release introduces the ability to use randomly generated slugs for Short URLs.

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Heya. I posted last week about building Url Grey, my URL shortener, a process which lead me to discovering and setting up some new tools. Specifically, Dokku, Codeship for Continuous integration and delivery, and Code Climate and Hakiri for code security, style, and test coverage reporting. I’ve decided to write the whole process up more completely, in part for myself, and in part because there a few hiccoughs I ran into that didn’t have answers (or readily apparent answers–it took me some hunting and piecing together of things) online.

This will be part of a series (hello slug up above!), starting with setting up Dokku, and moving on through the process of linking all the pieces together to get a continuous deployment setup.

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My wife and I went down to Cornwall for our anniversary this last week, and we decided to take surfing lessons. It’s a little embarassing that I’m now 29 and grew up in Southern California, pretty much in Huntington Beach, and have never surfed in my life. My English wife from Gloucestershire (think countryside) had actually surfed before me. So we decided to learn how to surf on our anniversary.

Even my captain laughs at me for this.

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