Update: Shell script to deploy changes to production and not shoot yourself in the foot
deploy-to-production now calls Capistrano with bundle exec since we started to bundle Capistrano in all projects.
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Shell script to deploy changes to production and not shoot yourself in the foot
Geordi, our collection of command line tools, has been extended by another command deploy-to-production. This script encapsulates the following workflow:
- Pull the production branch.
- **Show which commits...
Exclude your staging site from Google with robots.txt and not shoot yourself in the foot
If you want to exclude your staging site from Google using robots.txt without running the risk to forget deleting the file once you go live, name the file robots.exclude.txt instead.
In your Apache Vhost config, rewrite requests for the stagi...
Script to create and copy a production dump to your project root
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This is how we do it:
dum...
Shell script to generate a Git commit with Pivotal Tracker story ID and title
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like
[#15775609] Index view for conflicts
The geordi command commit automates this. (See: [Pretty Commit messages via geord...
Capistrano 2: Which Capistrano hooks to use for events to happen on both "cap deploy" and "cap deploy:migrations"
When deploying an application with "cap deploy" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations. To avoid an application to be running with code which requires database changes that did not happen yet you should use `cap deplo...
Use the Git stash without shooting yourself in the foot
The Git stash does not work like a one-slot clipboard and you might shoot yourself in the foot if you pretend otherwise.
In particular git stash apply does not remove the stashed changes from the stash. That means you will probably apply the wr...
Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:
gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara
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ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound errors allow you to query the :name and :id of the model that could not be found
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound errors provide quite meaningful error messages that can provide some insight on application details. Consider the following:
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn't find Organisation::Membership with 'id'=12 [WHE...
Script to open an SSH shell to a Capistrano deployment target
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy user and then again guessing the right directory on the server is awkward, so we wrote a script that parses config/deploy and...
Best practices: Writing a Rails script (and how to test it)
A Rails script lives in lib/scripts and is run with bin/rails runner lib/scripts/.... They are a simple tool to perform some one-time actions on your Rails application. A Rails script has a few advantages over pasting some prepared code into a R...