-- December 18, 2008 at 23:39 PST
I've been using git for source code management for over a year now and I'm totally hooked. I won't rave about all the usual reasons WhyGitIsBetterThanX since it's been done already. Instead, I'm going to share how I use git for easy agile development.
The basic idea is to never do anything in the master branch except use it to
| # View backups and pick one to pull down | |
| heroku pgbackups | |
| # Download chosen backup | |
| curl -o my_backup.dump `heroku pgbackups:url <backup_num>` | |
| # Restore into local database | |
| pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h myhost -U myuser -d mydb my_backup.dump |
by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com
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".
| cd /usr/local | |
| brew versions postgresql | |
| git checkout -b postgresql-8.4.4 [some hash] | |
| brew install postgresql | |
| git checkout master | |
| git branch -d postgresql-8.4.4 | |
| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3987683/homebrew-install-specific-version-of-formula |
| cd /data/regions_brandworks/shared | |
| wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2 | |
| tar xfj wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2 | |
| sudo mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf |
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'geokit' | |
| require 'csv' | |
| Geokit::Geocoders::google = 'your_key' | |
| places = CSV.read('places.csv', headers: true) |
| openssl rand -base64 6 | |
| openssl rand -hex 4 | |
| openssl rand -base64 8 |md5 |head -c8;echo | |
| date |md5 | head -c8; echo | |
| ping -c 1 yahoo.com |md5 | head -c8; echo |
| # install database server | |
| apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev | |
| # install postgresql gem | |
| gem install pg | |
| # create postgres (super)user | |
| createuser --superuser lsmith -U postgres | |
| # change postgres user password |
| Alfred http://www.alfredapp.com/ | |
| Shiftit http://code.google.com/p/shiftit/ | |
| Spectacle http://spectacleapp.com/ | |
| Adium http://adium.im/ | |
| Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/ | |
| VMware Fusion http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html | |
| Teleport http://abyssoft.com/software/teleport/ | |
| TextWrangler http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/ | |
| Skype http://www.skype.com/ | |
| iTerm2 http://www.iterm2.com/ |