Keith Fitzgerald ghostrocket

A Backbone.js demo app (Sinatra Backend)

Oct 16 2010

Updates

04/10/2011 - Updated application.js and application.rb thanks to @rebo's comments

In this article, I will walk through some simple steps to get a [demo app][2] up and running with [Backbone.js][3] and [Sinatra][4] on [Heroku][5].

	#!/bin/sh

	# Based on gist.github.com/gboudreau/install-ffmpeg-amazon-linux.sh
	# and https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/CompilationGuide/Centos
	if [ "`/usr/bin/whoami`" != "root" ]; then
	echo "You need to execute this script as root."
	exit 1
	fi

	cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo<<EOF

	<?php

	use Aws\Kms\KmsClient;

	// Somewhere in the controller or model
	$this->load->config('aws');

	// Not needed for EC2 instance role based authorization - for my local instance only
	$key = $this->config->item('aws_s3_access_key');
	$secret = $this->config->item('aws_s3_secret_key');

	# put this file in /usr/local/etc/my.cnf
	[mysqld]
	max_connections = 10

	key_buffer_size = 16K
	max_allowed_packet = 1M
	table_open_cache = 4
	sort_buffer_size = 64K
	read_buffer_size = 256K
	read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K

	editor
	foreground: f5f5f5
	background: 000000
	caret: 000000

	editor-selection
	foreground: ffffff
	background: ff4f92

	H1

	#!/bin/bash

	# install setuptools
	wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - \| sudo python

	# install pip
	sudo easy_install pip

	# install virtualenv
	sudo pip install virtualenv

	mysql -uroot --password= --skip-column-names -e "select concat('update ', a.table_name, ' set ', a.column_name, ' = convert(cast(convert(', a.column_name, ' using latin1) as binary) using utf8);') from information_schema.columns a where a.table_schema = '$DB_SCHEMA';" > fixutf8.sql
	mysql -uroot --password= $DB_SCHEMA < fixutf8.sql

	###
	Module dependencies
	###
	require.paths.unshift "#{__dirname}/lib/support/express-csrf/"
	require.paths.unshift "#{__dirname}/lib/support/node_hash/lib/"

	express = require 'express'
	app = module.exports = express.createServer()

	RedisStore = require 'connect-redis'