Lee Smith leesmith

Ubuntu 12.10 setup (rbenv/RVM, Janus, PostgreSQL)

Basic pre-requisites

Some utilities:

sudo apt-get install vim tmux git curl

Copy/paste from the command line:

Grab new backup of database

Command: heroku pgbackups:capture --remote production

Response: >>> HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_COLOR_URL (DATABASE_URL) ----backup---> a712

Get url of backup download

Command: heroku pgbackups:url [db_key] --remote production

Security is Hard

Massive Assignment

watch for ActiveRecord Relation, like has_many, has_many :through
watch for user_roles, `group_users
UPDATE action

Admin

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

Create A Bootable macOS USB Drive

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5856?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Download the macOS installer from the Mac App Store and make sure it's in your main Applications folder.
Connect a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive. Rename the drive to Untitled. (The command in the next step assumes the drive is named Untitled.)
Run command in terminal:

Simple Git Workflow For Continuous Delivery

Workflow guidelines:

master branch is always production-ready, deployable, 100% green test suite
New development is done on feature branches, with frequent rebasing onto master
Clean commit history by preferring to rebase instead of merge (git pull is configured to automatically rebase)

	def tip(msg); puts; puts msg; puts "-"*100; end

	#
	# 30 Ruby 1.9 Tips, Tricks & Features:
	# http://www.igvita.com/2011/02/03/new-ruby-19-features-tips-tricks/
	#

	tip "Upgrading to Ruby 1.9 is simple: rvm install 1.9.2 && rvm --default 1.9.2"

	tip "Ruby 1.9 supports named captures in regular expressions!"

	RSpec.configure do \|config\|

	config.before(:suite) do
	ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection database['one']
	DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :deletion
	ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection config.database['two']
	DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :deletion
	end

	config.before(:each) do

	# Configure the reverse-proxy on port 443
	server {
	# general configs
	keepalive_timeout 30;
	listen 127.0.0.1:443 ssl;
	server_name api.example.com;

	# ssl configs
	ssl_certificate /path/to/api.crt;
	ssl_certificate_key /path/to/api.key;