Chris mayinx

Ubuntu 12.04 Ruby on Rails Development Environment

I haven't set up an install guide for the latest ubuntu release, largely because the last set of instructions worked pretty closely with the latest and greatest Ubuntu, 12.04 Precise Pangolin, however when installing today, I found that there were enough differences in the way that I configure my setup to justify an update, so here it goes. Yes, I'm late to the party, but a quick google search didn't find anything that I felt was as complete for my requirements as my previous install guides, so here I go.

As always with my install guides, I have included here is just about everything you'll need (and then some) to get started with ruby on rails development with Ubuntu 12.04 as a platform. These are my settings and preferences, and this is certainly not the only way of doing things, so keep that in mind.

Step 1: Get the repos ready and run updates.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

##Refs

RailsGuides: ActionMailer Basics
Railscast: ActionMailer in Rails 3
Railscast: Sending HTML Email
Gem: Mail_View preview email without sending
Gist: Setting Up SettingsLogic Gem
Blog: How to test mailers in Rails 3 with RSpec

Generate a Mailer Model and View

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

	group :production do
	gem 'unicorn'

	# Enable gzip compression on heroku, but don't compress images.
	gem 'heroku-deflater'

	# Heroku injects it if it's not in there already
	gem 'rails_12factor'
	end

	In celebration of Whyday: Rubyists always want to show others the beautiful code
	they have created, hence the question: Has Anybody Seen My Code?

	Has Anybody Seen My Code
	(sung to the tune of Has Anybody Seen My Gal)

	Clean and small, works for all,
	Ruby is my all in all.
	Has anybody seen my code?

	{
	// use customized monokai color scheme (created with the awesome
	// tmtheme-editor - see http://tmtheme-editor.herokuapp.com)
	"color_scheme": "Packages/User/MonokaiCustomized2.tmTheme",

	"ensure_newline_at_eof_on_save": false,

	"use_simple_full_screen": false,

	// glasses are expensive, protect your eyesight

	[
	// inserts / toggles erb tags <%= %> \| <% %> \| <%- -%> \| <%= -%> \| <%# %> \| <% -%>
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+."], "command": "erb" },
	// Fold / Unfold Comments
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+c"], "command": "toggle_fold_comments" },
	// Reindent all Lines
	{ "keys": ["ctrl+shift+r"], "command": "reindent" , "args": { "single_line": false } },
	// layout: show right column full / switch to single column layout
	{
	"keys": ["alt+right"],

	# Call scopes directly from your URL params:
	#
	# @products = Product.filter(params.slice(:status, :location, :starts_with))
	module Filterable
	extend ActiveSupport::Concern

	module ClassMethods

	# Call the class methods with the same name as the keys in <tt>filtering_params</tt>
	# with their associated values. Most useful for calling named scopes from

	module Themes::PerspectiveTheme::MainHelper
	def self.included(klass)
	klass.helper_method [:perspective_social_networks] rescue "" # here your methods accessible from views
	end

	def perspective_theme_settings(theme)
	# callback to save custom values of fields added in my_theme/views/admin/settings.html.erb
	end

	# callback called after theme installed

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	\sconsole\.log(.);