Francisco Zavala Tzolkin

Problem

Postgres

Is the server running locally 
and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Solution

Install with Homebrew

brew install redis

Set up launchctl to auto start redis

$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

/usr/local/opt/redis/ is a symlink to /usr/local/Cellar/redis/x.y.z (e.g., 2.8.7)

Sans jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

Capybara Actions

# Anchor
click_link 'Save'

# Button
click_button 'awesome'

# Both above

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.
Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

Rails Rspec APIs Testing Notes

Folders Structure

  spec
  |--- apis #do not put into controllers folder. 
        |--- your_api_test_spec.rb  
  |--- controllers
  |--- models
  |--- factories
 |--- views

Title

<Additional information about your API call. Try to use verbs that match both request type (fetching vs modifying) and plurality (one vs multiple).>

URL

<The URL Structure (path only, no root url)>
Method:

Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

	require 'rails_helper'

	RSpec.describe TodosController, :type => :controller do

	describe "GET #index" do
	#describe "POST #create" do
	#describe "GET #show" do
	#describe "PATCH #update" do (or PUT #update)
	#describe "DELETE #destroy" do
	#describe "GET #new" do

	## just some ways to check if a url exists

	# method 1 - from Simone Carletti
	require "net/http"
	url = URI.parse("http://www.google.com/")
	req = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
	res = req.request_head(url.path)

	# method 2 - from some kid on the internet
	require 'open-uri'