nginx returned 405 for PATCH
A JavaScript client got 405 Not Allowed from nginx on a PATCH that Rails would have accepted. A method allowlist in the nginx config left PATCH out.
Ronnie Miller
My name is Ronnie. I'm a product-minded software engineer, building SaaS products and the infrastructure that runs them.
I live on California's Redwood Coast and have been building software for over 15 years. That work covers code, cloud infrastructure, security, and leading engineering teams.
Currently, you can find me leading engineering efforts as Partner and CTO of KABI Automotive. I also explore the edges of AI at BuildTestRun and share what I'm building and learning on my YouTube channel, Build at Scale. The notes below are where I write down what I build and what breaks.
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Capistrano couldn't authenticate, but ssh could
cap production deploy failed with Net::SSH::AuthenticationFailed while plain ssh worked. My be function had run Capistrano inside a Docker container with no SSH keys.
Counting requests per 15 minutes in Logs Insights
CloudWatch Logs Insights rejected sort bin(15m) with ‘unexpected symbol’. Name the bin with as, then sort by that name.
Deploying a Cloudflare Worker from GitHub Actions
An Astro site on Cloudflare Workers needed deploys on push, PR previews and a scheduled rebuild. A build script that ran tsc first, and the smallest API token that worked.
Moving Neovim to vim.lsp.enable
A Homebrew upgrade took Neovim from 0.9.5 to 0.11, which deprecated my lspconfig setup. TypeScript only attached once vim.lsp.enable ran at the top level.
Postgres in Docker ignored my POSTGRES_ settings
An old side project’s Postgres container refused every connection despite POSTGRES_HOST_AUTH_METHOD: trust. Those variables only apply to an empty data directory.
ECS Exec always runs as root
The app in my container ran as a non-root user, but every ECS Exec shell came up as uid 0. That is how ECS Exec works, so the controls belong in IAM and session logging.
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AWS 17
- Counting requests per 15 minutes in Logs Insights
- ECS Exec always runs as root
- Docker layer caching in CI, and the tag I overwrote
- SSM stopped working when I removed the public IP
- pulumi import gave me stale code
- TLS from the load balancer to the container
- Connecting Rails to Amazon RDS with SSL
- Running Rails migrations on an ECS deploy
- You can't backdate an S3 object
- Inspector suppression rules update by ARN, not by name
- Packer's env() only works in a variable default
- Mount the partition, not the disk
- Block Public Access wins over a public bucket policy
- From a log line to a command on the same box
- Remote Database Connection via ECS Fargate
- HTTPS For Your Static S3 Website
- Static Website Hosting on Amazon S3
Ruby and Rails 14
- nginx returned 405 for PATCH
- Capistrano couldn't authenticate, but ssh could
- A Compose volume was hiding my Bundler config
- A missing index, found with rack-mini-profiler
- wkhtmltopdf in an Alpine image
- after_commit and read_changed? never fire together
- Connecting Rails to Amazon RDS with SSL
- Running Rails migrations on an ECS deploy
- Ruby 3.3: the lambda method requires a literal block
- Is this memoization thread safe?
- Building Ruby 3.0.7 on an M2 Mac
- Ruby 2.3 – A Gift for You and Me
- RailsConf 2015, Atlanta Georgia
- Trying out new features of Ruby 2.2
Command line and Git 12
- Capistrano couldn't authenticate, but ssh could
- Moving Neovim to vim.lsp.enable
- tmux was running as x86 on my M4
- Git doesn't know where a branch came from
- Print only the last block from a log
- In a rebase, ours and theirs swap places
- From a log line to a command on the same box
- An alias can't put arguments in the middle
- fatal: bad revision 'main' in a GitHub Action
- Dear xargs, I appreciate you
- Migrate a Git Repository between Local Machines
- Vim plugins lost in the Vundle
Docker and CI 7
Databases 5
JavaScript 4
This site 4
Python and data 2
Integrations 2
Rust 1
2025
- nginx returned 405 for PATCH
- Capistrano couldn't authenticate, but ssh could
- Counting requests per 15 minutes in Logs Insights
- Deploying a Cloudflare Worker from GitHub Actions
- Moving Neovim to vim.lsp.enable
- Postgres in Docker ignored my POSTGRES_ settings
- ECS Exec always runs as root
- A Compose volume was hiding my Bundler config
- Cloud Run job args replace the command
- Docker layer caching in CI, and the tag I overwrote
- A missing index, found with rack-mini-profiler
- Bootstrap 2 caps you at jQuery 2
- wkhtmltopdf in an Alpine image
- SSM stopped working when I removed the public IP
- after_commit and read_changed? never fire together
- pulumi import gave me stale code
- TLS from the load balancer to the container
- Connecting Rails to Amazon RDS with SSL
- Running Rails migrations on an ECS deploy
- You can't backdate an S3 object
- Ruby 3.3: the lambda method requires a literal block
- An axios upgrade dropped my POST body
- tmux was running as x86 on my M4
- Inspector suppression rules update by ARN, not by name
2024
- A date dropdown that broke two ways
- Packer's env() only works in a variable default
- Git doesn't know where a branch came from
- Print only the last block from a log
- Is this memoization thread safe?
- In a rebase, ours and theirs swap places
- Mount the partition, not the disk
- Block Public Access wins over a public bucket policy
- From a log line to a command on the same box
- An alias can't put arguments in the middle
- Building Ruby 3.0.7 on an M2 Mac
- fatal: bad revision 'main' in a GitHub Action
2023
- Remote Database Connection via ECS Fargate
- Dear xargs, I appreciate you
- Execute pg_dump against a remote database
- Migrate a Git Repository between Local Machines
- Upgrading a Rust Project
- Becoming Friends with Pandas
- Make Me A Workflow
- Configure Bugsnag to sync with Trello
- Jupyter Notebooks: My New Favorite REPL
- Transitioning to a Notebook-style format