Matthew Riddle mriddle

Ruby developer @zendesk

mriddle / chef_solo_bootstrap.sh

Created September 9, 2012 06:32 — forked from cmaitchison/chef_solo_bootstrap.sh

Ubuntu 12.04 Chef-Solo bootstrap (VPSBlocks)

	#!/bin/bash -xe

	#THIS SCRIPT MUST BE RUN AS ROOT
	ADMIN_USER=admin
	ADMIN_GROUP=admin

	#add admin group
	(cat /etc/group \| grep -E '\b$ADMIN_GROUP\b') \|\| sudo groupadd $ADMIN_GROUP

	#add admin user

mriddle / postgres_table_sizes

Created June 7, 2012 07:17

Finding the total size of your biggest tables

	SELECT nspname \|\| '.' \|\| relname AS "relation",
	pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "total_size"
	FROM pg_class C
	LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
	WHERE nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema')
	AND C.relkind <> 'i'
	AND nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
	ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(C.oid) DESC
	LIMIT 20;

mriddle / coloured_git_output

Created May 11, 2012 23:18

Colour your git terminal output

git config --global color.ui true

mriddle / gist:1675779

Created January 25, 2012 10:41

Moving your work to other machines without pushing to master

	# Commit your work locally and from the remote machine run
	$ git pull dev@devmac-2:~/projects/atlas/atlas master

mriddle / git_reverting_multiple_commits.sh

Created January 25, 2012 02:49

[git foo] reverting multiple commits in one hit

	# Below is the strat on reverting multiple commits while rolling forward rather than winding back

	$ git reset --hard f7a4ffb0291f5fab47dd539a47e04bbd659e138
	# Where the SHA is the known good version you want to be back at
	$ git reset --soft @{1}
	# Which brings you back to origin head with the changes off the past commits reversed
	# eg
	# [-console.log("Loosing")-]{+console.log("Winning")+}
	# becomes
	# [+console.log("Winning")+]{-console.log("Loosing")-}