Will Bryant will3216

If you're running a Rails app in Google App Engine's flexible environment, it takes a bit of setup to get to a rails console attached to your deployed environment. I wanted to document the steps for my own reference and also as an aid to others.

Open the Google App Engine -> instances section of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) console.
Select the "SSH" drop-down for a running instance. (Which instance? Both of my instances are in the same cluster, and both are running Rails, so it didn't matter for me. YMMV.) You have a choice about how to connect via ssh.
1. Choose "Open in browser window" to open a web-based SSH session, which is convenient but potentially awkward.
2. Choose "View gcloud command" to view and copy a gcloud command that you can use from a terminal, which lets you use your favorite terminal app but may require the extra steps of installing the gcloud command and authenticating the gcloud command with GCP.

Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

	# this is the easiest way to use partials from model I could find so far

	class Entry < AR::Base
	def as_json
	context = ApplicationController.new.view_context
	context.render('/api/entries/entry.json', entry: self)
	end
	end

	# put this in your ~/.irbrc
	begin
	require 'pry'
	Pry.start
	exit
	rescue LoadError
	puts "Pry not found, using 'irb' instead. Try\n gem install pry"
	end

	#!/bin/bash
	# from here: http://www.codingsteps.com/install-redis-2-6-on-amazon-ec2-linux-ami-or-centos/
	# and here: https://raw.github.com/gist/257849/9f1e627e0b7dbe68882fa2b7bdb1b2b263522004/redis-server
	###############################################
	# To use:
	# wget https://raw.github.com/gist/2776679/04ca3bbb9f085b192f6aca945120fe12d59f15f9/install-redis.sh
	# chmod 777 install-redis.sh
	# ./install-redis.sh
	###############################################
	echo "*****************************************"

	curl -L https://gist.githubusercontent.com/RobinDaugherty/2731f20d303e6506d451384df2189210/raw/b52e6231170b3dce39633db29634dc892751910f/pow_better_errors_fix.patch \|
	patch ~/Library/Application\ Support/Pow/Versions/0.5.0/node_modules/nack/lib/nack/server.rb