Matías Mascazzini matiasmasca

Ruby on Rails Windows Troubleshooting Tips & Survival Guide

Intro/Overview

The Ruby on Rails Windows Troubleshooting tips & Survival Guide is a random catalogue of issues I faced working with Ruby on Rails on Windows (Windows 7 specifically). This guide is not exhaustive, but covers many of the challenges that causes Windows Ruby developers to jump ship to Linux or Mac. If you're reading this guide then you're probably new to Ruby/Rails, so also included is more general beginner advice to help you get going.

Personal Side Note

Before you follow this guide, I strongly recommend you consider using Linux or Mac OS X for Ruby Development instead. Looking to prove a point as a challenge, I ignored this strongly given advice while learning Ruby/Rails. While I eventually did succeed in getting Ruby on Rails to work in Windows, it was not easy, and I easily lost 40+ hours on StackOverFlow to Windows/Ruby configuration issues--time I could have devoted to learning more about th

Pry Cheat Sheet

Youtube Tutorial 2013

Command Line

pry -r ./config/app_init_file.rb - load your app into a pry session (look at the file loaded by config.ru)
pry -r ./config/environment.rb - load your rails into a pry session

Debugger

Capybara Actions

# Anchor
click_link 'Save'

# Button
click_button 'awesome'

# Both above

	config.assets.precompile += [

	# precompile any CSS or JS file that doesn't start with _
	/(^inline[^_\/]\|\/[^_])[^\/]*.(js\|css)$/,
	...

	require 'rails_helper'

	RSpec.describe TodosController, :type => :controller do

	describe "GET #index" do
	#describe "POST #create" do
	#describe "GET #show" do
	#describe "PATCH #update" do (or PUT #update)
	#describe "DELETE #destroy" do
	#describe "GET #new" do

	Feature: Facebook Login
	As An anonymous user
	I Want to login the webpage
	So That I can buy anything

	Background: Member should open home page
	Given I go to home page

	@javascript
	Scenario: Member should be able to login with Facebook

	# lib/tasks/db.rake
	namespace :db do

	desc "Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump"
	task :dump => :environment do
	cmd = nil
	with_config do \|app, host, db, user\|
	cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} --username #{user} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
	end
	puts cmd

	class Api::UploadsController < ApiController

	def create
	@upload = Upload.new(upload_params)
	ensure
	clean_tempfile
	end

	private


	# 1) Create your private key (any password will do, we remove it below)

	$ cd ~/.ssh
	$ openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.orig.key 2048


	# 2) Remove the password

	$ openssl rsa -in server.orig.key -out server.key

	Bootstrap 3 - Carousel/Slider Collection

	Article: http://sevenx.de/blog
	Demo: http://sevenx.de/demo/bootstrap-carousel

	Working Examples (inline Styles, CDN Scripts)

	- minimal Bootstrap Markup changes
	- minimal CSS Styles
	- minimal jQuery