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Auto-deploying built products to gh-pages with GitHub Actions

This is a set up for projects which want to check in only their source files, but have their gh-pages branch automatically updated with some compiled output every time they push.

A file below this one contains the steps for doing this with Travis CI. However, these days I recommend GitHub Actions, for the following reasons:

• It is much easier and requires less steps, because you are already authenticated with GitHub, so you don't need to share secret keys across services like you do when coordinate Travis CI and GitHub.
• It is free, with no quotas.
• Anecdotally, builds are much faster with GitHub Actions than with Travis CI, especially in terms of time spent waiting for a builder.

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/* http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/
   v2.0-modified | 20110126
   License: none (public domain)
*/

html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,

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// Generate unique IDs for use as pseudo-private/protected names.
// Similar in concept to
// <http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=strawman:names>.
//
// The goals of this function are twofold:
// 
// * Provide a way to generate a string guaranteed to be unique when compared
//   to other strings generated by this function.
// * Make the string complex enough that it is highly unlikely to be
//   accidentally duplicated by hand (this is key if you're using `ID`

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How to reset PG Database on Heroku?

• Step 1: heroku restart
• Step 2: heroku pg:reset DATABASE (no need to change the DATABASE)
• Step 3: heroku run rake db:migrate
• Step 4: heroku run rake db:seed (if you have seed)

One liner

heroku restart; heroku pg:reset DATABASE --confirm APP-NAME; heroku run rake db:migrate

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How to reset PG Database on Heroku?

• Step 1: heroku restart
• Step 2: heroku pg:reset DATABASE (no need to change the DATABASE)
• Step 3: heroku run rake db:migrate
• Step 4: heroku run rake db:seed (if you have seed)

One liner

heroku restart; heroku pg:reset DATABASE --confirm APP-NAME; heroku run rake db:migrate

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Ruby on Rails Cheatsheet

Architecture

Create a new application

Install the Rails gem if you haven't done so before

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-- Remove the history from 
rm -rf .git

-- recreate the repos from the current content only
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial commit"

-- push to the github remote repos ensuring you overwrite history
git remote add origin git@github.com:<YOUR ACCOUNT>/<YOUR REPOS>.git

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It's not immediately obvious how to pull down the code for a PR and test it locally. But it's pretty easy. (This assumes you have a remote for the main repo named upstream.)

Getting the PR code

1. Make note of the PR number. For example, Rod's latest is PR #37: Psiphon-Labs/psiphon-tunnel-core#37

2. Fetch the PR's pseudo-branch (or bookmark or rev pointer whatever the word is), and give it a local branch name. Here we'll name it pr37:

$ git fetch upstream pull/37/head:pr37

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Useful Links

• CSS Properties
  • http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/CSS/Properties
• Truncate text
  • for 1 line
    • https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/truncate-string-with-ellipsis/
  • for multiple lines
• http://joelsaupe.com/programming/multiple-line-ellipsis-css/