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A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

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Download the following in this order and install from here:

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/macosxpxlmono

Ghostscript for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)
Foomatic-RIP for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)
pxlmono 1.6 for Mac OS X 10.3.x (Panther) - Mac OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard)

Once installed add your printer and use the following driver Ricoh Aficio MX C2500 PXL and you should have a fully working colour printer:

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require 'database_cleaner'

DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :truncation
class MiniTest::Spec
  before :each do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean
  end
end

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require 'spec_helper'

describe PostsController do
  
  before do
    @post = Fabricate :post
  end

  describe "GET index", type: :request do
    before do

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source :rubygems

gem 'rails', '~> 3.0.7'

# Database
gem 'mongoid', '~> 2.0.1'
gem 'bson_ext', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'mongo_ext', '~> 0.19.3'

# Backend

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require 'spork'

Spork.prefork do
  # Loading more in this block will cause your tests to run faster. However,
  # if you change any configuration or code from libraries loaded here, you'll
  # need to restart spork for it take effect.
  
  # Hey, Mongoid! Don't cache that class!
  require "rails/mongoid"
  Spork.trap_class_method(Rails::Mongoid, :load_models)

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// REQUIRED VARS. Defaults to a 950px wide, 24-column grid that has 30px wide units and 10px wide
// gutters. If you do the fluid grid, then this 950/24/30/10px size will become the maximum size.
$grid_type: fixed !default
$grid_columns: 24 !default
$grid_column_width: 30 !default
$grid_gutter_width: 10 !default

// GENERATED VARS. You can ignore these.
$grid_full_width: $grid_columns * $grid_column_width + $grid_columns * $grid_gutter_width - $grid_gutter_width
$grid_column_width_percent: ($grid_column_width / $grid_full_width * 100) * 1%

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if __FILE__ == $0
  puts "Run with: watchr #{__FILE__}. \n\nRequired gems: watchr rev"
  exit 1
end

# --------------------------------------------------
# Convenience Methods
# --------------------------------------------------
def run(cmd)
  puts(cmd)

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  def generate_salt(length)
    salt = String.new
    32.times { salt += Kernel.rand(9999).to_s }
    if salt.length > length
      salt[0, length.to_i]
    else
      salt
    end
  end

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