kmamykin

gem 'rails', '3.1.0.rc5'

gem 'thin'
gem 'foreman'

# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails', "~> 3.1.0.rc"
  gem 'coffee-rails', "~> 3.1.0.rc"

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$ cat Procfile
web: rails server thin -p $PORT
$ gem list | grep foreman
foreman (0.19.0)
$ ps aux | grep thin
kmamykin 13773  0.0  0.0   4156   864 pts/2    S+   14:22   0:00 grep thin
$ foreman start
14:22:36 web.1     | started with pid 13897
14:22:50 web.1     | => Booting Thin
14:22:50 web.1     | => Rails 3.1.0.rc4 application starting in development on http://0.0.0.0:5000

kmamykin

task :renderview => :environment do
  app = YourApp::Application
  app.routes.default_url_options = { :host => 'xxx.com' }
  controller = YourController.new
  view = ActionView::Base.new(app.config.paths.app.views.first, {}, controller)
  view.class_eval do
    include ApplicationHelper
    include app.routes.url_helpers
  end
  puts view.render(:template => 'your/action')

kmamykin

# loosely based on:
# http://shiflett.org/blog/2010/jul/auto-increment-with-mongodb 
new_id = Mongoid.master["sequences"].find_and_modify 
    :query =>{"_id"=>"<name of your business entity>"},
    :update=>{"$inc"=>{"seq"=>1}},
    :upsert=>true,
    :new =>true #<-- this causes the new incremented id to be returned