> We will be back in a few hours. Someone discovered a security hole. They reported it, but not until someone else thought it would be cute to drop a rootkit in.
If Mister McElroy is reading this: Interesting! Was it a problem with _why's sandbox? (I don't think the original Try Ruby was ever exploited in the short time I kept a tab on it, and beyond that I haven't a clue; but I couldn't find any security commits in a quick scan of the changesets.)
Whenever I try to do 40.reverse, the thing errors out on me, and it wont let me progress any more through the tutorial. Kind of disappointing. I remember doing this thing before and it was quite fun.
Warning, a very "newb"ish question: I completed his tutorial inside my browser. Buw what now? How do I do that permanently on my shared server which allows me to create a rails application via cpanel. How do I "populate it with [my] code"?
This isn't a small question and is largely going to depend on your shared server.
First generally you're going to do most of your development locally and then deploy it to your server. If you're just starting out then check out the RadRails IDE. It does most of the heavy lifting for you and makes it really easy to get going.
After that look at something like capistrano or vlad the deployer for getting the site onto your webserver.
The only thing that could make this better would be if it were presented by _why (him|her)self.