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S3 Syncing

• Export out all your S3 data
• Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html

# sync from bucket to local
aws s3 sync <bucket> <target_folder> <options>
aws s3 sync s3://mybucket . --acl public-read

# sync from local to bucket

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This gem makes creating cron jobs very easy!

• Source: https://github.com/javan/whenever
• After defining your crons, you need to run whenever -w to write out the crontab
• Use crontab -l to see the list of cron jobs you have

Sample schedule.rb

set :output, {:standard => 'log/cron.log'} #logs to your log file to view

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Extracting model configuration

# app/models/booking.rb
class Booking
  include RailsAdmin::Booking
end

# app/models/concerns/rails_admin/booking.rb
module RailsAdmin::Booking

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Useful links:

• Grid Options: http://getbootstrap.com/css/#grid-options

Adding Bootstrap to Rails

• Download Bootstrap
• Copy bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css and bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css to vendor/assets/stylesheets
• Copy bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js and bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.min.js to vendor/assets/javascripts
• Update app/assets/stylesheets/application.css *= require bootstrap
• Update app/assets/javascripts/application.js //= require bootstrap

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• Download VirtualBox from http://virtualbox.org/
• Download the IE versions from http://modern.ie/
• Follow the instructions from Modern.ie to extract the OVA file
• Open VirtualBox and select "File" > "Import Appliance"
• Select the OVA file
• ENSURE 'Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards' is checked
• Start up the Virtual Machine after you have imported the OVA
• In Windows, open Internet Explorer
• Go to http://10.0.2.2:3000 to access your Rails server

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This resolves the issues of writing files to NTFS disks on mac.

• Plug in your drive
• Run the script below (Replace DRIVENAME with your drive name)
• Unplug your drive and plug it in again
• You won't see your drive on the desktop or finder
• Type open /Volumes and you will be able to see your drive
• Write your files!!!

Tip: To unmount the disk, type diskutil unmount /Volumes/DRIVENAME

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Setup Steps

• Refer to this website: http://blog.55minutes.com/2013/01/lightning-fast-sass-reloading-in-rails-32/

# Gemfile
group :development do
  gem 'guard',              :require => false
  gem 'guard-livereload',   :require => false
 gem 'rack-livereload'

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Git Tagging

• Git tagging is like a mark where you mark a specific commit so that you can track how many commits ahead you are from that mark (tag)
• A tag can only mark a commit, not multiple commits

# commit something first

# tag a commit (will tag last commit)
git tag -a v1.0 -m 'An intelligent message'

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Introduction

• Mina is a gem which is very simliar to Capistrano but much FASTER!
• See https://github.com/nadarei/mina for the gem
• See http://nadarei.co/mina/ for documentation
• See https://gist.github.com/jbonney/6257372 for a good example on configuring Mina

Mina Deploy.rb

require 'mina/bundler'

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This allows you to access the development server of your app without starting rails server. This means you can access multiple development site at the same time. Useful if you have an API app and another app to work together with.

• Reference found here: http://pow.cx/manual.html

Setup

# install
curl get.pow.cx | sh