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“Is flash RTMP streaming a secure way to stream video so it can’t be downloaded?”

We’re using this with CloudFront + S3. But will it protect our content enough?

“RubyMine + rspec 2.6, why won’t my focused tests run?”

We hoped this could be easily fixable by detaching the rspec gems and reattching them, but no luck with our usual fixes.

“MixPanel, is it a good tool for analytics and log analysis? “

Compared to normal analyics tools or splunk for log analysis?

“Anyone ever stubbed out 3rd party calls to a Thrift RPC service before?”

Is there a better solution than some sort of standard generic ruby stubbing & expectation tool?

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• The net-ssh-telnet gem makes running a scripted batch SSH session pretty easy. This might be a good tool for you, if you want something much less complicated than capistrano or chef server for remote automation.