Robin Mayfield rujmah

Gems

Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generate, and specs/tests take less than one second.
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git config --global alias.hist "log --pretty=format:'%h %ad | %s%d [%an]' --graph --date=short"
git config --global alias.lol "log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --all"
git config --global alias.mylog "log --pretty=format:'%h %s [%an]' --graph"

To check that they've been added correctly, first run git config --list. You should see something like this in the midst of all your other configuration:

alias.hist=log --pretty=format:"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]" --graph --date=short

Setup new Mac with OSX Lion from scratch

These commands are good as of 2011-07-27.

Install Xcode 4

The download/install takes a while so start it first. When it finishes downloading you will still need to run it to complete installation.

iTerm2

Really the nicest choice for a terminal on OSX right now, especially with Lion style full screen support.

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

##Setting up Vagrant for Node.js development

These are instructions for an internal project setup for node.js development in the same enviromment regardless of host OS. Some items may be specific to our project and internal processes, but I put it here as a starting point for others or help to setting up your own OS.

There is an internal postinstall.sh on install of the vagrant box mentioned here, but I prefer to roll my own and outline the essential steps so that other can input the items that they require.

###Setting up Vagrant box

Install VirtualBox
Download and install Vagrant
Follow the instructions for creating an ubuntu 'precise32' vagrant box on the 'Getting Started' page (really quick)

Sublime Text 2 - Useful Shortcuts

Tested in Mac OS X: super == command

Open/Goto

super+t: go to file
super+ctrl+p: go to project
super+r: go to methods

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

Restore MySQL from Amazon S3

This is a hands-on way to pull down a set of MySQL dumps from Amazon S3 and restore your database with it

Sister Document - Backup MySQL to Amazon S3 - read that first

1 - Set your MySQL password and S3 bucket, make a temp dir, get a list of snapshots

# Set our variables

export mysqlpass="ROOTPASSWORD"

	var request = require('request')
	, sinon = require('sinon')
	, getProfile = require('./gh');

	describe('User Profile', function(){
	before(function(done){
	sinon
	.stub(request, 'get')
	.yields(null, null, JSON.stringify({login: "bulkan"}));
	done();

	# This is a short collection of tools that are useful for managing your
	# known_hosts file. In this case, I'm using the '-f' flag to specify the
	# global known_hosts file because I'll be adding many deploy users on this
	# system. Simply omit the -f flag to operate on ~/.ssh/known_hosts

	# Add entry for host
	ssh-keyscan -H github.com > /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts

	# Scan known hosts
	ssh-keygen -f /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts -H -F github.com