How to configure Sublime Text 2 to use Ruby 2.0 using RVM

{ "env":{ "PATH":"${HOME}/.rvm/bin:${PATH}" }, "cmd": ["rvm-auto-ruby", "$file"], "file_regex": "^(...*?):([0-9]*):?([0-9]*)", "selector": "source.ruby" }

Copy this file to your rvm.sublime.build file.

For more info: Sublime Text 2 Integration With RVM and Rspec: Take Number 2

How to configure rspec to test controller macros

Include the line:
  config.include OnboardingControllerMacros, :type => :controller

in spec_helper.rb

Readline was unable to be required, if you need completion or history install readline then reinstall the ruby.

This happens on Ubuntu 12 when installing Ruby 2.0 using RVM. To fix this follow the instructions below:

If you're using Ubuntu 12.04, DO NOT pkg install readline, with or without --skip-autoreconf. After you've done that, either readline or zlib will be broken no matter what combination of switches you give to rvm install ruby-2.0.0-p0 . To get it to work, do the apt-get install that rvm requirements tells you to do, do a rvm pkg uninstall readline and then do a simple rvm remove ruby-2.0.0-p0; rvm install ruby-2.0.0-p0 Now the irb should work fine without any warnings.   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8176076/how-to-get-readline-support-in-irb-using-rvm-on-ubuntu-11-10

iPhone 5 cord stuck in USB Port

You can easily remove your iPhone 5 cable stuck in USB port by using either your shirt collar stays or a toothpick. Just stick it inside the USB port, sitting on top of the cable and pull them together.

Accessing Git Repository on Github

Problem:
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

Solution:

Password Caching (Explains how to use https to access repository and cache password so you don't get annoying password prompt whenever you have to access the github repo)

1. curl -s -O \

  http://github-media-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/osx/git-credential-osxkeychain

chmod u+x git-credential-osxkeychainsudo mv git-credential-osxkeychain `dirname \`which git\``
git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

Using Bundler Outside Rails

1. bundle init
2. Open Gemfile and add your gems : gem 'highline'
3. bundle

Bundler without Rails

Using Phusion Passenger as a Rails Server on Mac OS X 10.7.5

Software used : RVM Passenger 3.0 on Mac OS X 10.7.5

1. rvm use 1.9.3
2. gem install passenger
3. rvm get head
4. rvm reload
5. rvm repair all
6. passenger-install-apache2-module

Could not find gem 'activerecord-sqlite3-adapter (>= 0) ruby' in the gems available on this machine.

Instead of

gem install activerecord-sqlite3-adapter

run

gem install sqlite3

Archimedes and the Internet

If Archimedes was born in this era, he would say:

Give me a single email account, and a website, and I will move the Internet.

Playing with URL Helpers in Rails 3.2 Console

 :001 > Rails.application.routes
 => # 
 :002 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
 => # 
 :003 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.permissions_get_access_token_url
ArgumentError: Missing host to link to! Please provide the :host parameter, set default_url_options[:host], or set :only_path to true
 :004 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.permissions_get_access_token_path
 => "/permissions/get_access_token"
 :005 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.permissions_get_access_token_path(:host => 'http://localhost')
 => "/permissions/get_access_token"
 :006 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.permissions_get_access_token_url(:host => 'http://localhost')
 => "http://http://localhost/permissions/get_access_token"
 :007 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.permissions_get_access_token_url(:host => 'localhost')
 => "http://localhost/permissions/get_access_token"
 :008 > Rails.application.routes.url_helpers.permissions_get_access_token_url(:host => 'localhost:3000')
 => "http://localhost:3000/permissions/get_access_token"

 or

  :001 > include ActionDispatch::Routing
  => Object
  :002 > include Rails.application.routes.url_helpers
  => Object
  :003 > permissions_path
  => "/permissions"
  :004 > permissions_url
 ArgumentError: Missing host to link to! Please provide the :host parameter, set default_url_options[:host], or set :only_path to true
  from /Users/bparanj/.r

Reference:
Recognizing URL Helpers

protocol version mismatch (client 7, server 6) tmux

ps aux | grep tmux

Look at the second column for the process id. Then run : kill process-id-for-tmux

SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed

1. Install GCC Installer https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer
2.

rvm remove 1.9.3
brew install openssl
rvm install 1.9.3 --with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl`

# Install openssl
echo "Install openssl..."
brew install openssl
brew link openssl
# download cert.pem file for openssl
cd /usr/local/etc/openssl/certs/
sudo curl -O http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
sudo mv cacert.pem cert.pem
cd -
echo "
# cert.pem file for openssl 
export SSL_CERT_FILE=/usr/local/etc/openssl/certs/cert.pem" >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Shell script to turn your laptop to a development machine.

PayPal Application id for Sand Box

Use APP-80W284485P519543T as the app_id

This is the same for all sandbox users and any PayPal API (Adaptive Payments, Express Checkout etc).

Convert HAML to ERB

1. rails g install haml2erb
2. Gemfile :
gem 'mixology'
3. bundle
4. Rails console : Haml2Erb.convert('.foo')

This plugin is not perfect. I had to refer HAML documentation to convert some of the lines.

no such file to load -- less Twitter Bootstrap, Rails 3.2.11

1. In Gemfile, for group :assets block, add:

        gem "less-rails"

2. Add to Gemfile (not in any block), add:

         gem 'therubyracer', :require => 'v8'

3. bundle

It will now work.

rake aborted! can't convert nil into Hash

Solution Source:

Rails 3.1, rake 0.9.2.2, add this code on config/boot.rb

require 'yaml'
YAML::ENGINE.yamler = 'syck'

Useful Tools for Testing Web API

1. RSpec HTTP : https://github.com/c42/rspec-http

response.should be_http_ok
response.should be_http_created
response.should be_http_unprocessable_entity
response.should be_http_im_a_teapot
response.should have_header('Content-Type')
response.should have_header('Content-Type' => 'application/json')
response.should have_header('Content-Type' => /json/)

2. JSON Spec : https://github.com/collectiveidea/json_spec

json_spec defines five new RSpec matchers:

be_json_eql
include_json
have_json_path
have_json_type
have_json_size

3. VCR : https://github.com/myronmarston/vcr

Screencast on VCR : http://avdi.org/devblog/2011/04/11/screencast-taping-api-interactions-with-vcr/

'too many connection resets (due to HTTP session not yet started - IOError) after

This happens when you use VCR with Webmock. There is an open bug on Webmock that is causing this problem. The fix is to either downgrade the Webmock to 1.0 version or use Fakeweb.

Using pry in test environment

Is it possible to use pry when I am running my tests? Sometimes when I am running specs for legacy code, I need a way to experiment with the existing code.

Answering my own question. Yes, it is possible. Just add binding.pry in the production code, run the specs, pry will stop at the line where you have the binding in the terminal window where you have the test running. You can also use pry-nav to use the ruby debug familiar commands step, next and continue while you debug the code.

Installing Ruby 2.0 on Mac OS 10.8.2 using RVM

1. Make sure you have the latest RVM
     rvm get head
     rvm reload

$ brew install autoconf
$ brew install automake
$ brew install libyaml

$ rvm install ruby-head

Stolen from the blog post instructions : How to install Ruby 2.0 (ruby-head) with RVM