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Re:Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser by mtogo on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:50AM (#2802819)
Who runs an internet-accessible development machine? Maybe I give the rest of the dev world too much credit.

I apologize for not having an underground cold war bunker with which to develop my software on. Until i get one, I'll stick with my one and only machine (which, as you can tell, has internet access) for doing development.

EDIT: And because of it, i'd never put this code on a machine i run.

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Re:Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser by tptacek on Monday July 25, 2011 @10:52AM (#2802826)
Most professional shops do indeed have dev machines. They live at Rackspace alongside the prod servers. They are protected from the Internet by firewall rules; you need a VPN connection to access them. Unfortunately, everyone who writes code has that VPN connection accessible at all times, because that's their job, and so rack-webconsole puts them a cute cat picture away from giving an anonymous Twitter user access to their data center.
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