justinweiss

require 'yaml'
require 'erb'
require 'ostruct'

class Settings < OpenStruct

  # Settings.new(:google_analytics)
  def initialize(config_file_base_name)
    super(YAML.load(ERB.new(File.read(Rails.root.join("config", "#{config_file_base_name}.yml"))).result)[Rails.env])
  end

wrburgess

Setting Up Redis/Resque with Rails 3 on Local and Heroku

Refs

• Redis
• Resque
• Railscast: Resque

Add the gem

kagemusha

Get the Heroku db as detailed here:
http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pgbackups#exporting_via_a_backup

1. heroku pgbackups:capture
2. heroku pgbackups:url <backup_num>  #=>backup_url
   -  get backup_num with cmd "heroku pgbackups"
3. curl -o latest.dump <backup_url>

Then locally do:
$ pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb latest.dump