John Bianchi johnbianchi

Reset root/admin password

Lost the root/admin password? You can reset it using the command-line. Recipe adapted from gitlab issue #308.

# start the console
sudo gitlab-rails console

In the below keyboard shortcuts, I use the capital letters for reading clarity but this does not imply shift, if shift is needed, I will say shift. So ⌘ + D does not mean hold shift. ⌘ + Shift + D does of course.

Tabs and Windows

Function	Shortcut
New Tab	`⌘` + `T`
Close Tab or Window	`⌘` + `W` (same as many mac apps)
Go to Tab	`⌘` + `Number Key` (ie: `⌘2` is 2nd tab)
Go to Split Pane by Direction	`⌘` + `Option` + `Arrow Key`

Processing JSON using jq

jq is useful to slice, filter, map and transform structured json data.

Installing jq

On Mac OS

brew install jq

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 \" \

	# Thanks to http://dev.enekoalonso.com/2011/08/09/uninstalling-brew-so-i-can-reinstall/

	cd `brew --prefix`
	rm -rf Cellar
	brew prune
	rm -rf Library .git .gitignore bin/brew README.md share/man/man1/brew
	rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew

	ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

	#!/bin/bash

	##
	## Simple logging mechanism for Bash
	##
	## Author: Michael Wayne Goodman <goodman.m.w@gmail.com>
	## Thanks: Jul for the idea to add a datestring. See:
	## http://www.goodmami.org/2011/07/simple-logging-in-bash-scripts/#comment-5854
	## Thanks: @gffhcks for noting that inf() and debug() should be swapped,
	## and that critical() used $2 instead of $1

	# -- mode: ruby --
	# vi: set ft=ruby :

	# Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
	VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

	Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do \|config\|
	# All Vagrant configuration is done here. The most common configuration
	# options are documented and commented below. For a complete reference,
	# please see the online documentation at vagrantup.com.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	#
	# gh-dl-release! It works!
	#
	# This script downloads an asset from latest or specific Github release of a
	# private repo. Feel free to extract more of the variables into command line
	# parameters.
	#
	# PREREQUISITES
	#

	[alias]
	# Merge the current branch to another one, created back when I needed to merge into three branches before issuing a PR
	merge-to = "!f() { git checkout $1 && git merge $2 && git checkout $2; }; f"

	# Commit shorthand family:
	c = commit
	cm = commit -m
	cam = commit -am
	camp = "!f() { git commit -am \"$1\"; git push; }; f"
	ca = commit -a

	wget --no-check-certificate --content-disposition https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1
	# --no-check-cerftificate was necessary for me to have wget not puke about https
	curl -LJO https://github.com/joyent/node/tarball/v0.7.1