Ant handbook

Check conditions example:

<!-- run command -->
<target name="t_name">
 <exec executable="command" failonerror="true" outputproperty="exec.out" errorproperty="exec.err" resultproperty="exec.rc" >
    <arg value="arg"/>
  </exec>
</target>

<!-- check conditions -->
<target name="checkresult">
    <condition property="errors">
        <not>
            <equals arg1="${exec.err}" arg2="0" />
        </not>
    </condition>
    <echo message="errors: ${errors}"/>
</target>

...

Setting up RubyOnRails environment on Ubuntu 14.04

This tutorial is about setting up environment for RubyOnRails on Ubuntu 14.04.

First of all, update & upgrade your system:

sudo apt-get update

^
sudo apt-get upgrade
^

Install git and curl:

sudo apt-get install curl

^
sudo apt-get install git-core
^

Configure git:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

^
git config --global user.email email@example.com
^

Install RVM:

curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

^
source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
^
Test RVM installation correctness:

type rv...

Setup postgresql for RoR

Assume your database.yml file looks like this:

{: .yaml}
development:
adapter: postgresql
host: localhost
encoding: unicode
database: proj_development
pool: 5
username: proj
password:
template: template0

test:
  adapter:  postgresql
  host:     localhost
  encoding: unicode
  database: proj_test
  pool:     5
  username: proj
  password:
  template: template0

production:
  adapter:  postgresql
  host:     localhost
  encoding:...

Rspec + Capybara + Rails4 + Spork (intergation tests setup with selenium and poltergeist)

Add in Gemfile:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'rspec-rails'
  gem 'spork-rails'
end

group :test do
  gem 'capybara'
  gem 'database_cleaner'
  gem 'email_spec'
  gem 'poltergeist'
  gem 'launchy'
  gem 'selenium-webdriver'
end

Run bundle install

Ensure your spec_helper.rb looks similar with this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'spork'
#uncomment the following line to use spork with the debugger
# require 'spork/ext/ruby-debug'

Spork.prefork do
  # Loading more in this block will cause your tests to ...

Rails migration add float point field with scale and precision

class CreateFakes < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :fakes do |t|
      t.decimal :float_value, :precision => 4, :scale => 3
    end
  end
end

This will allow you to have 3 digits after the decimal point and 4 digits max.

Ubuntu postgresql 9.3 installation for RoR

Add repository and install Postgresql:

^
sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ precise-pgdg main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list"
^
wget --quiet -O - http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
^
sudo apt-get update
^
sudo apt-get install postgresql-common
^
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.3 libpq-dev
^

Then make yourself a Postgresql superuser:

sudo su postgres

^
createuser your_system_login
^
psql
^
ALTER ROLE your_system_login WITH SUPERUS...

Prevent outline button shadow in Chrome

button{
      outline-style: none;
}

Capistrano deploy.rb examples

All examples here for deploy RoR application with unicorn, staging machine (where we deploys) available via ssh by ssh_key.

  1. Deploy via remote_cache:

     require 'rvm/capistrano'
     require 'bundler/capistrano'
    
     set :application, '_proj_'
     set :rails_env, 'production'
     set :domain, '_user@your_deploy_domain_'
     set :deploy_to, "_path_to_#{application}"
     set :use_sudo, false
     set :unicorn_conf, "#{deploy_to}/current/config/unicorn.rb"
     set :unicorn_pid, "#{deploy_to}/shared/pids/u...
    

Jasmine - how to run specific it or describe block?

Just mark needed describes and its as ddiscribe and iit, and next time you run tests only ddiscribes and iits will be executed. In Jasmine version >= 2.0 use fit and fdescribe respectively.

Tell Cucumber where to find step definitions

In case you want to organize your features in sub folders, you must tell Cucumber where to find step definitions for them, for that reason use --require flag. For example, your features located in folder features/awesome_staff/*.*, to run them do the following:

cucumber --require features features/awesome_staff

And Cucumber takes step definitions from folder features/step_definitions

Install gems without those which in production group

For that purpose, just use these command:

bundle install --without production

Run rake tasks from ruby script

require 'rake'

rake = Rake.application
rake.init
# you can import addition *.rake files
# app.add_import 'some/other/file.rake'
rake.load_rakefile
rake['db:test:prepare'].invoke()

Ubuntu 12.04 phantomjs installation

Visit PhantomJS site, go to download page and copy link address for Linux, in our case this is https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

Then go to console and run following commands:

sudo apt-get install libfontconfig libfontconfig-dev libfreetype6-dev

^
wget https://phantomjs.googlecode.com/files/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
^
sudo mv phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 /opt
^
cd /opt
^
tar -xvf phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
^
ln -s /opt/phantomjs-1.9.2-linux-x8...

Setting up Javascript environment with NVM on Ubuntu 14.04

NVM provides you more convenient way to manage and set up your Javascript(Node.js) environment.

First install NVM, note git must be installed on your sistem:
^
git clone https://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm && cd ~/.nvm && git checkout git describe --abbrev=0 --tags
^
To activate nvm, you need to source it from your shell:
^
cd # go to home folder
^
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
^
If you want to see what versions of Node.js are available to install:
^
nvm ls-remote
^
To install Node.js v0.11.14 just run:
^
nvm install...

Generating SSH Keys

If you don't have ssh key, open terminal and run following commands:

cd ~/.ssh

^
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@example.com"

When you have ssh key, just copy public part to clipboard:

xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

To install xclip run:

sudo apt-get install xclip

Then add to GitHub or GitLab keys in profile settings

ActiveRecord models localization

Suppose we have some model and we want to localize it, first of all we need to now i18n_key for that model. Open rails console rails c, and run:

OurModelName.model_name.i18n_key

For example let's do that for model, defined in public_activity gem:

PublicActivity::Activity.model_name.i18n_key
#=> :"public_activity/activity"

Now, we cat easily localize it, by adding this in .yaml file:

activerecord:
  models:
    public_activity/activity: 'Our localized model name'

In the same way we can locali...

How to create Nokogiri node if node name collide with Nokogiri::XML::Builder methods

Suppose you want to create node with name text, but this method already present in Nokogiri::XML::Builder. The solution is to add underscore after node name:

Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
  xml.text_ 'something' # this should create node with name 'text'
end

ubuntu nginx with txid module

To install nginx with txid module

install nginx-full package:

sudo apt-get install nginx-full

download last nginx source:

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.9.9.tar.gz

examine what flags and modules your current nginx installed with:

nginx -V

you will see something like

nginx version: nginx/1.6.2 (Ubuntu)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-l...

Ignore subfolder in git tree

If you want to ignore subfolder in git tree you may add this folder in .gitignore file in root directory, or just create .gitignore file in that folder with content:

# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except this file
!.gitignore

Ubuntu 12.04 Java install

First install python-software-properties:

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

Next, remove openjdk package if installed:

sudo apt-get remove openjdk*

Now, add java repository by webupd8team:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java

And update your system:

sudo apt-get update

For installing Oracle Java 7 run:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer

For Oracle Java 6 run:

sudo apt-get install oracle-java6-installer

For Oracle Java 8 run:

sudo apt-get install oracl...

SSH config for simplify connection to many similar hosts

Suppose you have three hosts (host.one.domain.name, host.two.domain.name host.three.domain.name) with the same credentials, with access by ssh key, then any time when you need to connect to host you must type something like this:

ssh user@host.one.domain.name -i path/to/key_file

^
ssh user@host.one.domain.name -i path/to/key_file

You can simplify your life by creating file ~/.ssh/config, with content:

Host one two three
  HostName host.%h.domain.name
  User user
  IdentityFile path/to/key_file

And now ...

Ubuntu 12.04 TeamCity build agent installation

Download build agent archive from your TeamCity server:

wget http://your_teamcity.server.com:8111/update/buildAgent.zip

Unzip it in separate directory:

mkdir buildAgent

^
mv buildAgent.zip buildAgent
^
cd buildAgent
^
unzip buildAgent.zip
^
chown -R your_user:your_group ../buildAgent

Copy agent's settings file:

cp conf/buildAgent.dist.properties conf/buildAgent.properties

Edit this file:

nano conf/buildAgent.properties

There are fields which you must update:

# your TeamCity server address:

...

Javascript with Turbolinks in Rails 4

If some of your scripts don't work with turbolinks, you should do the following:

ready = ->
  #your code here
  
$(document).ready(ready)
$(document).on('page:load', ready)

Firefox only css rules

For css rules only for Firefox use this container:

@-moz-document url-prefix() {
  #some_id{
    height: auto;
  }
}