Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
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Sometimes you want to use a gem on Heroku that is in a private repository on GitHub.
Using git over http you can authenticate to GitHub using basic authentication. However, we don't want to embed usernames and passwords in Gemfiles. Instead, we can use authentication tokens.
This method does not add your OAuth token to Gemfile.lock. It uses bundle config to store your credentials, and allows you to configure Heroku to use environment variables when deploying.
| #!/bin/sh | |
| # | |
| # Forwards SSH agent into a Docker container running in the active | |
| # docker-machine | |
| # | |
| PROGNAME=$(basename $0) | |
| NAME=$(docker-machine active) |
| Some notes on remote debugging mac builds on Travisci. It's hard to tell when something hangs what the cause it. Trial and error via commits is tedious. And on Mac , sometimes it's the gui asking for input. So I worked my around to get the access I needed for faster debugging a build. | |
| ################################################# | |
| # Enable remote ssh access to travisci build for debugging | |
| ################################################# | |
| # Add a key so we can login to travisci vm | |
| - cat ssh/travisci.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys | |
| - chmod 600 ssh/travisci | |
| # Install netcat |
| if [ -f "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm" ]; then | |
| source "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm" | |
| if [ -f ".rvmrc" ]; then | |
| source ".rvmrc" | |
| else | |
| if [ -f ".ruby-version" ]; then | |
| if [ -f ".ruby-gemset" ]; then | |
| rvm use `cat .ruby-version`@`cat .ruby-gemset` | |
| else | |
| rvm use `cat .ruby-version` |
| test: | |
| override: | |
| - bundle exec rspec spec | |
| deployment: | |
| acceptance: | |
| branch: master | |
| commands: | |
| - ./script/heroku_deploy.sh <ACCEPTANCE_HEROKU_APP>: | |
| timeout: 300 |
| # A program that works jobs in newly created UNIX | |
| # process by calling fork. The number of processes | |
| # running at any given time is bounded by our use | |
| # of a sized queue. | |
| require 'thread' | |
| # Run at most 4 UNIX processes for any given time. | |
| @limiter = SizedQueue.new(4) |
I have a lot of people at Hacker Hours ask about where to look for jobs - here are some places I recommend.
| class ActiveRecord::Base | |
| mattr_accessor :shared_connection | |
| @@shared_connection = nil | |
| def self.connection | |
| @@shared_connection || ConnectionPool::Wrapper.new(:size => 1) { retrieve_connection } | |
| end | |
| end | |
| ActiveRecord::Base.shared_connection = ActiveRecord::Base.connection |
