masonforest

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.

1. Get an OAuth Token from GitHub

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First you will need to get an OAuth Token from GitHub using your own username and "note"

iros

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peterhellberg

source :rubygems

gem "sinatra", "~> 1.3.2"

group :test do
  gem "minitest", "~> 2.10"
  gem "rack-test", "~> 0.6.1"
  gem "capybara", "~> 1.1"
  gem "capybara-webkit", "~> 0.11"
  gem "capybara_minitest_spec", "~> 0.2"

ordinaryzelig

I'm a fan of MiniTest::Spec. It strikes a nice balance between the simplicity of TestUnit and the readable syntax of RSpec. When I first switched from RSpec to MiniTest::Spec, one thing I was worried I would miss was the ability to add matchers. (A note in terminology: "matchers" in MiniTest::Spec refer to something completely different than "matchers" in RSpec. I won't get into it, but from now on, let's use the proper term: "expectations").

Understanding MiniTest::Expectations

Let's take a look in the code (I'm specifically referring to the gem, not the standard library that's built into Ruby 1.9):

# minitest/spec.rb

module MiniTest::Expectations

dupuy

Markdown and reStructuredText

GitHub supports several lightweight markup languages for documentation; the most popular ones (generally, not just at GitHub) are Markdown and reStructuredText. Markdown is sometimes considered easier to use, and is often preferred when the purpose is simply to generate HTML. On the other hand, reStructuredText is more extensible and powerful, with native support (not just embedded HTML) for tables, as well as things like automatic generation of tables of contents.

mislav

copiousfreetime

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'csv'

# This assumes:
#   - Ruby 1.9's CSV library, if you are using 1.8, use FasterCSV.
#

# https://raw.github.com/hadley/data-baby-names/master/baby-names.csv
csv_fname = "baby-names.csv"

tokland

require 'active_record'
require 'arel'

# Ruby-like syntax in AR conditions using the underlying Arel layer (Rails >= 3.0).
#
# What you would usually write like this: 
#
#   User.where(["users.created_at > ? AND users.name LIKE ?", Date.yesterday, "Mary"])
#
# can now be written like this (note those parentheses required by the operators precedences):

barmstrong

class ZendeskTicketsJob
  extend Resque::Plugins::ExponentialBackoff
  @queue = :low
  FIELDS = ['zendesk_id', 'requester_id', 'assignee_id', 'group', 'subject', 'tags', 'status', 'priority', 'via', 'ticket_type', 'created_at', 'assigned_at', 'solved_at', 'resolution_time', 'satisfaction', 'group_stations', 'assignee_stations', 'reopens', 'replies', 'first_reply_time_in_minutes', 'first_reply_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'first_resolution_time_in_minutes', 'first_resolution_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'full_resolution_time_in_minutes', 'full_resolution_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'agent_wait_time_in_minutes', 'agent_wait_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'requester_wait_time_in_minutes', 'requester_wait_time_in_minutes_within_business_hours', 'reservation_code', 'requires_manual_closing']

  def self.perform(url)
    `rm /tmp/zendesk_tickets*`
    `wget #{url} -O /tmp/zendesk_tickets.csv.zip`
    `unzip -p /tmp/zendesk_tickets.csv.zip > /tmp/zendesk_tickets.csv`
    

mattwynne

# usage:
# it "should return a result of 5" do
#   eventually { long_running_thing.result.should eq(5) }
# end
module AsyncHelper
  def eventually(:options = {})
    timeout = options[:timeout] || 2
    interval = options[:interval] || 0.1
    time_limit = Time.now + timeout
    loop do