Blog Entries for "Rails"

Posted by Matt Savona on April 3, 2008

I've just posted my GraphvizSimple.rb class, which can be used to generate Graphviz graphs from Ruby with ease. It's lightweight, it works, and it's fun! Check it out on the project page here . [read more...]

Network Monitor Update

Posted by Matt Savona on February 28, 2008

Matt Just a quick update. Nmap ping sweeps are now fully integrated into my networking monitoring web app. Nmap is capable of returning a good deal of information on a range of hosts, so dropping my quick and dirty ping and port sweeps in favor of this now yields more complete results, which can later be passed directly to Metasploit.

Fun Ruby tidbit of the day: IO.popen does not block execution of the current thread, as the docs state, it runs it as a Ruby subprocess. So trying to File.read the output of your popen ... [read more...]