Ashley Engelund weedySeaDragon

Stop Versioning Rails Secret Tokens

After reading Code Climate's Rails' Insecure Defaults I realized I was guilty of breaking rule 3. Versioned Secret Tokens. Here's how I fixed it.

Use dotenv in development and test environments:

# Gemfile
gem 'dotenv-rails', groups: [:development, :test]

Git-workflow vs feature branching

When working with Git, there are two prevailing workflows are Git workflow and feature branches. IMHO, being more of a subscriber to continuous integration, I feel that the feature branch workflow is better suited, and the focus of this article.

If you are new to Git and Git-workflows, I suggest reading the atlassian.com Git Workflow article in addition to this as there is more detail there than presented here.

I admit, using Bash in the command line with the standard configuration leaves a bit to be desired when it comes to awareness of state. A tool that I suggest using follows these instructions on setting up GIT Bash autocompletion. This tool will assist you to better visualize the state of a branc

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

TL;DR

Install Postgres 9.6, and then:

sudo pg_dropcluster 9.6 main --stop
sudo pg_upgradecluster 9.5 main
sudo pg_dropcluster 9.5 main

To use the most modern version of Postgres software we need to add postgresql repository. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list or create /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list and add there a line: deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ jessie-pgdg main Then import the repository signing key, and update the package lists:

wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

Install a new version of PostgreSQL server.

Once the Debian upgrade finished, I used dpkg-query -l postgresql* to check which versions of postgres I have installed.

	# encoding: UTF-8

	# Place in config/deploy.rb

	namespace :rails do
	desc "Open the rails console on each of the remote servers"
	task :console do
	on roles(:app) do \|host\| #does it for each host, bad.
	rails_env = fetch(:stage)
	execute_interactively "ruby #{current_path}/script/rails console #{rails_env}"

	# lib/tasks/db.rake
	namespace :db do

	desc "Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump"
	task :dump => :environment do
	cmd = nil
	with_config do \|app, host, db, user\|
	cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} --username #{user} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
	end
	puts cmd

	@startuml
	' uncomment the line below if you're using computer with a retina display
	' skinparam dpi 300
	!define Table(name,desc) class name as "desc" << (T,#FFAAAA) >>
	' we use bold for primary key
	' green color for unique
	' and underscore for not_null
	!define primary_key(x) <b>x</b>
	!define unique(x) <color:green>x</color>
	!define not_null(x) <u>x</u>

	require 'graphql'
	require 'neo4j'

	neo4j_url = ENV['NEO4J_URL'] \|\| 'http://localhost:7474'
	session = Neo4j::Session.open(:server_db, neo4j_url)


	class Author
	include Neo4j::ActiveNode
	id_property :id_author

	require 'google/apis/analyticsreporting_v4'
	require 'googleauth'

	include Google::Apis::AnalyticsreportingV4
	include Google::Auth

	VIEW_ID = "12345678" #your profile ID from your Analytics Profile
	SCOPE = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly'

	@client = AnalyticsReportingService.new