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Restful Rails API, Just Add Water

The guide will assume that we are dealing with a pre-existing application that has two models: Album and Artist. An album belongs to an artist and an artist has many albums.

Requirements

This guide is for Rails 4.0.0+ only.

These gems can always be replaced with alternatives, but they will be good for demonstration. Add the following gems to your Gemfile:

Migrating a Rails project from MySQL to PostgreSQL

This brief guide is written from my own experience with migrating a large (~5GB) MySQL database to PostgreSQL for a Rails project.

No warranties, guarantees, support etc. Use at your own risk and, as always, ENSURE YOU MAKE BACKUPS FIRST!

I chose [pgloader][1] because it's extremely fast. YMMV.

Replace mysql2 gem with pg in Gemfile.
Update config/database.yml for PostgreSQL. I used [Rails' template][2] as a starting point.

progrium/bashstyle

Bash is the JavaScript of systems programming. Although in some cases it's better to use a systems language like C or Go, Bash is an ideal systems language for smaller POSIX-oriented or command line tasks. Here's three quick reasons why:

It's everywhere. Like JavaScript for the web, Bash is already there ready for systems programming.
It's neutral. Unlike Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or PHP, Bash offends equally across all communities. ;)
It's made to be glue. Write complex parts in C or Go (or whatever!), and glue them together with Bash.

This document is how I write Bash and how I'd like collaborators to write Bash with me in my open source projects. It's based on a lot of experience and time collecting best practices. Most of them come from these two articles, but here integrated, slightly modified, and focusing on the most bang for buck items. Plus some ne

First of all, install Homebrew itself.

As the tap is a private Git repo, you need to generate a GitHub token with repo scope and then add this token to your ~/.netrc file like this:

machine github.com
  login <your GitHub user>
  password <your GitHub token>

It's important to note that running this reset will drop any existing data you have in the application

How to reset PG Database on Heroku?

Step 1: heroku restart
Step 2: heroku pg:reset DATABASE (no need to change the DATABASE)
Step 3: heroku run rake db:migrate
Step 4: heroku run rake db:seed (if you have seed)

One liner

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

Installing a Gem on Heroku from a Private GitHub Repo

Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.

Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.

This method does not add your OAuth token to Gemfile.lock. It uses bundle config to store your credentials, and allows you to configure Heroku to use environment variables when deploying.

Generate an OAuth token from GitHub

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

	package main

	import (
	"archive/tar"
	"compress/gzip"
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"os"
	)

	node {
	echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
	echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
	sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
	echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
	sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
	echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
	sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
	echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
	sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"