Capistrano automatically logs each (successful) deployment into a file on your application servers.

It is located at the root of your server's project folder, i.e. the parent of releases and current, like so:

/var/www/your-project$ ls
current
log
releases
repo
revisions.log  <---  here
shared

Each line in that file contains the deployed branch, commit, release ID, and username (was read from the deploying user's machine):

$ tail -n3 revisions.log 
Branch master (at da45511bea63002ac2ff002d1692e09d0dd7cb88) deployed as rel...

We recently had a problem on a Memcache cluster, where one of the servers showed a significantly worse cache hit rate and a lot more evictions.

It turned out that the only reason was that the server was running for a few months longer than the others. Some investigation showed this to be a known problem with Memcache: Once your cache gets full, it might be "hardwired" for your specific usage patterns. If those change (and you for example start to store larger values), memory is no longer allocated optimally, in extreme cases Memcache might ...

YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just like gem server in RubyGems, you can serve gem docs. The advantage to YARD’s server is that you don’t need to pre-generate the static docs (with a gem install) before running the server. If you installed your gem with --no-rdoc, YARD will just generate it on the fly!

Was ist Elastic?

• Suchmaschine, basierend auf Apache Lucene
• größtenteils Open-Source
• einige kommerzielle Features ("Elastic Stack", früher "X-Pack")
  • Zugriffsrechte (bis vor kurzen)
  • Monitoring
  • Reporting
  • Graph-Unterstützung
  • Machine Learning
• REST-Api (JSON über HTTP)

Grundlagen

Elastic antwortet per Default auf Port 9200

http GET :9200

{
  "name": "ntK2ZrY",
  "cluster_name": "elasticsearch",
  "cluster_uuid": "Bbc-ix5bQZij5vfFU29-Cw",
  "version": {
    "number": "6.7.1",
    "build_flavor": "...

In case https://www.rubydoc.info/ is to slow or offline, you can also read a gem documentation offline.

Start a server with gem server and go to http://0.0.0.0:8808/. Here you will find a list of all installed gems and it is possible to navigate to the documentation if installed e.g. http://0.0.0.0:8808/doc_root/rubocop-0.77.0/

In case you set the configured RubyGems to not install documentation by default, you need to add generate the documentation for the specific gem.

gem install rubocop --document
`...

In my case [...] the catalog is an XML that contains all kinds of possible products, categories and vendors and it is updated once a month. When you read this file with the Nokogiri default (DOM) parser, it creates a tree structure with all branches and leaves. It allows you to easily navigate through it via css/xpath selectors.

The only problem is that if you read the whole file into memory, it takes a significant amount of RAM. It is really ineffective to pay for a server if you need this RAM once a month. Since I don't need to n...

Starting from Rails 4.0, you can use a special form options helper called #collection_check_boxes. It behaves similar to #collection_select, but instead of a single select field it renders a checkbox and a label for each item in the collection.

= form_for @post do |form|
  = form.collection_check_boxes :author_ids, Author.all, :id, :name_with_initial

How generated form params look like
---------------------------------...

If you want to have a new log file every day automatically, but avoid using logrotate, the CustomLog directive is your friend:

CustomLog "|/usr/sbin/rotatelogs /opt/www/awesome-project/log/access.%Y-%m-%d.log 86400" combined

Adding that to your site's vhost will create log files that include the current date in their name, like access.2011-04-20.log, without any need to restart the web server every night (like logrotate does).

The last argument above is the rotation time in seconds -- here being 86400 (= 60 * 60 * 24) which ca...

You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias names for hosts so that you can say something like ssh foobar-staging.

This is especially helpful for servers whose hostnames are hard to remember or who don't have a DNS record at all (and must be accessed via their IP address).

To achieve the above, you can define something like this in your ~/.ssh/config:

Host foobar-staging
  Hostname staging.example.com

Note that SSH will only match this for `ssh f...

When giving a presentation with a projector it is sometimes better to use a dual screen layout instead of a cloned display. If you still want a preview of the projector screen on your primary screen, you can do this:

0. Install x11vnc and a vnc viewer (e.g. xtightvncviewer).

1. Connect the projector.

2. In your system display settings, move the projector to the left or your primary screen (not strictly necessary, but I had weird clipping issues otherwise).

3. Start a vnc server for your second display with

   x11vnc -clip xinera...
   

The Angular ngSrc directive serves to properly set an image src via Angular. As anything in Angular, it updates the image as soon as the contained Angular expression changes. However, when the ng-src attribute is empty, Angular will not empty the src attribute. To overcome this, use the trick below.

<img ng-src="{{ element.image || '//:0' }}" />

Background

The ngSrc directive explicitly returns when the attribute value is falsy. As a workaround, set a "blank" image src when the image is empty. As [somebody ...

When making requests using curl, no cookies are sent or stored by default.
However, you can tell curl to re-use cookies received earlier (or forge your own cookies).

There are 2 command line switches you need to use:

• -c will write cookies to a given file
• -b will read cookies from a given file

Example

The remote server sets a "foo" cookie to value "bar". We tell curl to store them to a file at /tmp/cookies using the -c switch.

$ curl -c /tmp/cookies http://httpbin.org/cookies/set?foo=bar

You may look at the file, ...

Imagine you have a piece of code that tries to send a request to a remote server. Now the server is temporarily not available and raises an exception. In order to re-send the request you could use the following snippet:

def remote_request
  begin
    response = RestClient.get my_request_url
  rescue RestClient::ResourceNotFound => error
    @retries ||= 0
    if @retries < @max_retries
      @retries += 1
      retry
    else
      raise error
    end
  end
  response
end

This sni...

Update: Staticmatic will not be further developed. They suggest to switch to middleman.

If you need to make a static web page and find yourself missing all your Rails comforts, take a look at StaticMatic.

This works like an extremely stripped down version of Rails, giving you

• HAML
• SASS
• helpers
• partials

When done, everything is simply compiled to s...

Have you guys ever done the math on that? You asked or allowed for 24000 interruptions from literally every human being in the world who could fall onto a keyboard and make an e-mail go to you. (Merlin Mann)

So you decided to put a price on your attention and not check your e-mail 24000 times a year. A first step is to disable automatic e-mail checks in Thunderbird.

1. Open Edit -> Account settings and select your incoming mail account.
   ...

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 gives you the handy command shell-for.

Run it from any project directory like this, passing a Capistrano multistage deployment target:

shell-for staging

Now it also supports commands to be remotely executed before loading the bash. Use --no-bash to only execute the command and load no ba...

You might wonder about this request in your test.log:

Started GET "/__identify__" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-04-29 18:00:02 +0100

This is what happens: For drivers like Selenium, Capybara will boot up a Thin or Webrick server in a separate thread. It then makes a GET request to /__identify__ to see if the server is ready to accept requests.

Since you don't have a route that responds to /__identify, Capybara will wrap your Rails app in...

To install gems Bundler needs to be able to talk to https://api.rubygems.org.

If you are behind a proxy you can use the https_proxy environment variable:

https_proxy=http://myproxy:123 bundle install

Note that if there is no https_proxy env variable, Bundler will also look for a http_proxy env variable.

With Capistrano

Ideally the server you're deploying on exports an https_proxy variable for all shells.

If you don't have control over the server setup, you can also add this to your Capistrano config:
...

REST Client is a nice, simple HTTP client library for Ruby.

When you do a simple GET request like that:

RestClient.get 'http://example.com/'

it will result in this request beeing sent to www.example.com:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*; q=0.5, application/xml
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: www.example.com

The application/xml accept header might lead to unexpected results on your server. You can force REST Client to ask the server for default text/html that way:

RestC...

6.0.0 2021-06-02

Compatible changes

• geordi commit will continue even if one of the given projects is inaccessible. It will only fail if no stories could be found at all.

Breaking changes

• Removed VNC test browser support for integration tests – Headless Chrome has
  matured and is almost a drop-in replacement. Also, key binding issues have
  increased with VNC and recent Linux.
  • Please use a headless Chrome setup https://makandracards.com/makandra/492109-capybara-running-tests-with-headless-chrome.
  • You might also ...

App tokens

For server-to-server requests to the Facebook Graph API you can skip requesting an Oauth token, an instead use the combination of app_id|app_secret as your access token. This token will never expire, and should suffice for retrieving basic information from the Graph API.

http://graph.facebook.com/endpoint?key=value&access_token=app_id|app_secret

Since you don't make requests for a certain user, the Graph API might respond with an error in case you're requesting a resource that requires authenticating as a human...

The mysql2 gem in version 0.3.13 might break while compiling on older patch releases of Ruby 1.9.3 within rvm:

*** [err :: server] ruby: symbol lookup error: /path/to/deployment/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mysql2-0.3.13/lib/mysql2/mysql2.so: undefined symbol: rb_wait_for_single_fd
*** [err :: server] ruby: symbol lookup error: /path/to/deployment/shared/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/mysql2-0.3.13/lib/mysql2/mysql2.so: undefined symbol: rb_wait_for_single_fd

Fixating mysql2 to version 0.3.11 helped.

Ubuntu lets you mount an SSH shell into Nautilus from Places -> Connect to server (select "SSH" as server type).

In order to copy a file over SSH from a shell:

scp filename username@remotehost:

The trailing ":" directs the file to username's home directory on the remote host.

You can also copy a file from the remote host to your local machine:

scp remotehost:remotepath localpath

I've got often this error on just one server:

Err http://de.archive.ubuntu.com precise/universe amd64 Packages
404  Not Found [IP: 141.30.13.20 80]

But there was no problem with the network connection or the de.archive.ubuntu.com server.

After I deleted the local lists cache with rm -r /var/lib/apt/lists it works again.