Showing posts with label ruby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ruby. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2012

Using Mongoid 3 (MongoHQ or MongoLab) on Heroku

Here's what you need to get Mongoid working on Heroku, if you're getting errors like:
NoMethodError (undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass)

Make sure the following is in your gem file (reference).
source 'http://rubygems.org' 
ruby '1.9.3'
gem  'rails', '3.2.3'

If you get an error like undefined method `ruby' run the following:
gem install bundler --pre

A lot of places have outdate documentation for configuring your mongoid.yml file which may result in the following error:
No database provided for session configuration: :default

Your mongoid.yml file should look like the following.
production:
  sessions:
    default:
      uri: <%= ENV['MONGOHQ_URL'] %>
      options:
        skip_version_check: true
        safe: true
The ENV variable above is for MongoHQ. For MongoLab use ENV['MONGOLAB_URI'] 


Big thanks to the guys in this StackOverflow thread for helping me put all this together!



Friday, March 18, 2011

Ruby Cheat Sheet for .NET Developers

....or anybody who sucks at OSX/Linux.

I've been learning Ruby on Rails over the last couple of months and when you've been programming on Windows with Visual Studio for as many years as I have it's a major learning curve to switch to programming Ruby on OSX or Linux. So I've created a cheat sheet to help me with all the little details I routinely have to look up.

Ruby on Rails Command Line

Preview Site:
rails server
Preview Site as Production:
rails s -e production
Test DB and be able to rollback changes:
rails console --sandbox
Reset DB:
rake db:reset
Modify DB for real:
rails console
View ActiveRecord Raw SQL:
tail -f log/development.log
Migrate Development DB
rake db:migrate (DEV)
Migrate Test DB
rake db:test:prepare
Migrate Production DB
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
Create a New DB Migration:
rails generate migration [MIGRATION NAME] 
rails generate migration add_email_uniqueness_index
View Routes:
rake routes
Start Autotest:
autotest


Output debug info in Model:
logger.debug @user.attributes.inspect
Add Debug info to Layout:
<%= debug(params) if Rails.env.development? %>
Routes:
NAMED ROUTE            PATH
users_path             /users
user_path(@user)       /users/1
new_user_path          /users/new
edit_user_path(@user)  /users/1/edit
users_url              http://localhost:3000/users
user_url(@user)        http://localhost:3000/users/1
new_user_url           http://localhost:3000/users/new
edit_user_url(@user)   http://localhost:3000/users/1/edit

RESTFUL Routes:
GET      /photos           index     display a list of all photos
GET      /photos/new       new       return an HTML form for creating a new photo
POST     /photos           create    create a new photo
GET      /photos/:id       show      display a specific photo
GET      /photos/:id/edit  edit      return an HTML form for editing a photo
PUT      /photos/:id       update    update a specific photo
DELETE   /photos/:id       destroy   delete a specific photo


Assign if variable is undefined:
||=  
@current_user ||= user_from_remember_token
Variable Scope:
$            A global variable
@            An instance variable
[a-z] or _   A local variable
[A-Z]        A constant
@@           A class variable
http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Ruby_Variable_Scope 


Upgrade to the latest version of rvm
rvm update --head
Install a version of Ruby
rvm install 1.9.2
Working with gemsets
rvm info                        # show the current environment
rvm 1.8.7                       # use the ruby to manage gemsets for
rvm gemset create project_name  # create a gemset
rvm gemset use project_name     # use a gemset in this ruby
rvm gemset list                 # list gemsets in this ruby
rvm gemset delete project_name  # delete a gemset
rvm 1.9.1@other_project_name    # use another ruby and gemset
Default for Project:
echo "rvm 1.9.1@MyProject" > ~/projects/MyProject/.rvmrc

Add gem to Gemfile
Run:
bundle install
or 
bundle update
or (for self contained)
bundle pack


Extract tar.gz:
tar -zxvf yourfile.tar.gz
Find a file:
find . -name "controller.rb" 
http://helpdesk.ua.edu/unix/tipsheet/tipv1n10.html
Delete Folder:
rm -rf
Add JPG File Extension to Multiple files:
for f in *; do mv "$f" "$f.jpg"; done

Remove file from repo:
git rm --cached


GitHub

Checkout:
git clone git://github.com/crdeutsch/MVC3-Boilerplate.git
Publish:
git push origin master


Enable Git Flow
git flow init
Start a Feature
git flow feature start myfeature
Finish a Feature
git flow feature finish myfeature


Create App:
heroku create
Publish:
git push heroku master
Migrate DB:
heroku rake db:migrate
View Logs:
heroku console
File.open('log/production.log', 'r').each_line { |line| puts line }


Compile CSS:
compass compile
Watch project for changes and compile whenever it does:
compass watch


New site:
staticmatic setup my_site
Preview:
staticmatic preview my_site
Build:
staticmatic build my_site

OSX

Screen Capture:

Full Screen:
Hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 3 and release all
Portion of your screen:
Hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4 and release all key
Application window:
Hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4 and release all key
Now, You will see the mouse cursor will change to +
Press the space bar once


This list is far from comprehensive, but it's pretty much everything I've had to google at least once to figure out and I plan to keep adding to it as I progress.

If you have some nuggets to share add them to the comments.

If lots of people want to contribute we should probably move this to a different format (Wiki, Markdown?) but until then I'll keep maintaining it here.