BGbgentry·Dec 27, 2012
No, it doesn't warn, it raises an error and prevents the application from booting: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/commit/2fa87...
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6 sourcesAs hgimenez said, the best way is to not store your secrets in your source tree at all (12factor.net style). Keep them in the environment. Here's a great example:
https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/commit/2fa87...
In Reminder: secret_token.rb is named so for a reasonTook this: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration
And added some ASL videos and resource links for the deaf community. This is to encourage more of our people to become more involved in our country's direction. Just doing duty as a deaf American!
In Deaf twist on Democrats' Voter Registration App on GithubDemocrats release voting application code
1 points · Open discussionYeah, it changes the game when you need to fill out a pre-existing PDF form with user-supplied data (as opposed to free form PDF generation). In my experience, you pretty much have to use a Java library (such as iText) for this. So for a Rails app, that means JRuby, queue to a Java daemon processor, or something along those lines.
Though I see they're using the prawn gem to do it here: https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/blob/master/...
Last time I checked, prawn wasn't quite powerful enough for this use case. I'll have to revisit that approach.
In DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platformI like how the registration form shows the form validation errors inline:
http://i.imgur.com/U5QL1.png
Looking at the source view(https://github.com/democrats/voter-registration/blob/master/...)
it doesn't seems there is some extra markup, unless I am missing something.
So, How can I implement the same in my rails app?
In DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform