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momer / ability.rb
Last active December 15, 2015 11:18
As promised, here's the collaboration set-up I created with CanCan. I'd found the original idea through a suggestion in stack overflow (which even had some ideas for tests listed), which I then heavily adapted to my use case. Tests pass below; next steps for anyone else looking to use something like this is just implementing the fancy footwork i…
class Ability
include CanCan::Ability
def initialize(user)
user ||= User.new # IE: Guest user isn't signed in, create a user
if user.try(:is?, :admin)
can :manage, :all
elsif !user.roles.empty? && user.approved?
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momer / PG_auto_backup_upload_to_remote_cronjob
Last active December 14, 2015 21:58
Automagically backup & upload postgres database to a remote server at 5:45am every day.
# m h dom mon dow user command
45 5 * * * postgres pg_dumpall -l YOURDBNAME | gzip -c | ssh backup@MYBACKUPSERVER "cat | gzip /YOURDIRECTORYPATH/pg_backups/$(date +\"%Y-%m-%d:%T\")YOURFILENAME.gz"