James Gardner james-gardner

Most configuration really isn't about the app -- it's about where the app runs, what keys it needs to communicate with third party API's, the db password and username, etc... They're just deployment details -- and there are lots of tools to help manage environment variables -- not the least handy being a simple .env file with all your settings. Simply source the appropriate env before you launch the app in the given env (you could make it part of a launch script, for instance).

env files look like this:

SOMEVAR="somevalue"
ANOTHERVAR="anothervalue"

To source it:

$ source dev.env # or staging.env, or production.env, depending on where you're deploying to

	var mongoObjectId = function () {
	var timestamp = (new Date().getTime() / 1000 \| 0).toString(16);
	return timestamp + 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.replace(/[x]/g, function() {
	return (Math.random() * 16 \| 0).toString(16);
	}).toLowerCase();
	};

	(function(Backbone, _) {
	var leave;

	_.extend(Backbone.Router.prototype, Backbone.Events, {
	route : function(route, name, callback) {
	var before
	, fn = callback
	, after;

	Backbone.history \|\| (Backbone.history = new Backbone.History);

	{_} = require 'underscore'
	child_process = require 'child_process'
	async = require 'async'

	healthCheckInterval = 60 * 1000
	bounceInterval = 60 * 1000
	bounceWait = bounceInterval + 30 * 1000

	delayTimeout = (ms, func) -> setTimeout func, ms
	class MonitoredChild

	#/bin/bash
	#-- Script to automate https://help.github.com/articles/why-is-git-always-asking-for-my-password

	REPO_URL=`git remote -v \| grep -m1 '^origin' \| sed -Ene's#.(https://[^[:space:]]).*#\1#p'`
	if [ -z "$REPO_URL" ]; then
	echo "-- ERROR: Could not identify Repo url."
	echo " It is possible this repo is already using SSH instead of HTTPS."
	exit
	fi

	#!/bin/sh
	# Pre-commit hook for git which removes trailing whitespace, converts tabs to spaces, and enforces a max line length.

	if git-rev-parse --verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
	against=HEAD
	else
	# Initial commit: diff against an empty tree object
	against=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
	fi

	/* "Thunks, Trampolines, and Continuation Passing"
	* Python implementation from http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/03/30/
	* JavaScript implementation by Thomas Darr <[email protected]>.
	*/

	// thunk = lambda name: lambda args: lambda: name(args)
	var thunk = function thunk(fn) {
	return function _thunk() {
	var splat = Array.prototype.slice.apply(arguments);
	return function __thunk() { return fn.apply(this, splat); };

	// see this article: http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2012/05/10/modeling-explicit-workflow-with-code-in-javascript-and-backbone-apps/
	// replace the object literal in that example with a Marionette.Controller
	//
	// an example:

	var SomeProcess = Marionette.Controller.extend({
	initialize: function(options){
	this.region = options.region;
	this.model = options.model;
	},

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048