Magento Snippets

Steps

Prelude

Although I wouldn’t go as far as to say: "one shouldn’t use a Windows based setup", I’ve had some recent extensive experience in this field, and although amusing at first (trying to get the same (Arch)Linux 'feel') it ultimately failed in a few very essential things. I’ve done my best at it and invite anyone to try for themselves, and nice if you manage to do so properly, but I’ve kept running into some unsurpassable differences which made me flee back to a (Virtualbox) Arch guest: 1) Windows does not know http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/symlink.html [symbolic links as POSIX does] and many shell scripts (read: Bash or more portable 'sh' scripts mostely, btw I use zsh myself); 2) Windows does not know the concept of fork() as *nix systems do.

Both result in either the blatant failure of certain tools (the problem of PHPUnit related libraries relying on PHP ext-pcntl and it being exclusively for POSIX systems) o

Magento Snippets

Download extension manually using pear/mage

Pear for 1.4, mage for 1.5. File downloaded into /downloader/.cache/community/

./pear download magento-community/Shipping_Agent
./mage download community Shipping_Agent

Clear cache/reindex

Intro

This is a summary of my current Windows build. Having a incomplete (GNU\Linux vs. Windows) toolset, it was a bit of a scavanger hunt trying to hunt down the best of the best. Of course I still knew some tricks from a few years back, but stuff hasn’t been standing completely still in Redmond so let’s catch up:

Essential

Face it, you won’t be able to make it without these tools:

Redmine Pro Setup

Install RVM

Not a must per-se but damn handy nontheless and the point is we might want to have other applications which require a whole different Ruby version to run so I’ll thank myself later.

Ensure your user shell runcommand file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc) doesn’t contain any $PATH path which doesn’t include the $PATH variable itself (e.g. export PATH=/foo/bar:/baz/bara) and append the $PATH environment variable postfix (e.g. export PATH=/foo/bar:/baz/bara:$PATH).
Pull the latest stable Ruby from rvm.io using \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
Source the rvm file to obtain access to the function using source /the/rvm/path/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Preamble

As always I did a half-arsed read of the instructions, just forked the github repository then made a lokal clone.

Ξ /srv/http → git clone [email protected]:greenwellness/spree.git

Cloning into 'spree'...
Warning: Permanently added the RSA host key for IP address 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' to the list of known hosts.
remote: Reusing existing pack: 157334, done.

Tools

rawgithub.com - Content-Type aware proxy
gist.io - gist publisher
GistDeck - gist slideshow
prose.io - web-based interface for managing text-based content
documentup.com - README publisher

	<?php
	define('PATH_TO_MAGENTO', '/var/www/magento'); // update accordingly
	require_once PATH_TO_MAGENTO.'/app/Mage.php';
	Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

	// your php code here

	?>

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<templateSet group="Magento">
	<template name="help" value="Mage::helper('$helperName$')" description="Mage::helper" toReformat="false" toShortenFQNames="true">
	<variable name="helperName" expression="" defaultValue="core" alwaysStopAt="true" />
	<context>
	<option name="HTML_TEXT" value="false" />
	<option name="HTML" value="false" />
	<option name="XSL_TEXT" value="false" />
	<option name="XML" value="false" />
	<option name="CSS" value="false" />

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<layout>

	<!-- ############# GLOBAL LAYOUT UPDATES ############# -->

	<default>

	<!-- Remove unwanted blocks entirely
	<remove name="right.poll"/>
	<remove name="right.permanent.callout"/>