Paul Gross

I’m a Principal Software Engineer in Seattle. I have previously worked at Rvvup, Ripple, Braintree/PayPal, and ThoughtWorks.

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I just released a new version of pulse. Pulse adds an action to your rails project that can be used for external health checking. The most common use is by a http proxy such as haproxy.

This version returns a response with html and body tags, which fixes an issue with selenium on Internet Explorer. Thanks to Ali Aghareza and Brandon Byars for discovering the problem and sending me a patch.

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