Custom RSpec be_square matcher for CarrierWave

It seems to me that when using CarrierWave for image uploads, particularly user avatars, it would be a pretty common thing to generate at least one square-cropped version of the image. CarrierWave ships with some nice custom matchers to test exact dimensions and such, but I found I wanted a way to just test that an image was square.

I did this using by building a custom matcher on top of the ones CarrierWave provides. If you have the conventional spec_helper.rb that requires support/**/*.rb, then you can just drop this somewhere like support/matchers/carrierwave_matchers.rb:

Then, you can use this like:

Hudson CI behind an Nginx Reverse Proxy with SSL

Here is a quick example nginx configuration to reverse proxy on an HTTPS virtual host to a Hudson CI server running on localhost. When I first tried to do this, the management page displays an error about the configuration being wrong. There are instructions for Running Hudson behind Apache that were helpful, and this email thread that seems to suggest terminating SSL at Hudson, not at the reverse proxy. Well, after a bit of tinkering, I worked out this configuration for nginx that worked out great: