If you’re hosting your app on Heroku (possibly even if you aren’t) it is a good idea to create a staging environment also. Heroku has docs on this but the short version for a new app is: heroku create staging-app-name –stack cedar –remote staging(if the app is already on Heroku, just add the remote: git […]
Using the guard gem to run tests etc in your Rails app normally requires some form of file system monitoring. The monitoring will be OS dependant and rb-fsevent is the gem for OSX. This can be added to the Gemfile conditionally with: gem ‘rb-fsevent’, :require => false if RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /darwin/i Unfortunately when you next […]
https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts is a plugin for Heroku to allow you to use multiple accounts, e.g. work and personal. To install: heroku plugins:install git://github.com/ddollar/heroku-accounts.git Then set up each account: heroku accounts:add personal –auto heroku accounts:add work –auto Set your default: heroku accounts:default personal Then to switch account for an app: heroku accounts:set work
Most of my programming career has revolved around Microsoft technologies, starting with Visual Basic 3, up through the various versions to VB.Net, then switching to CSharp shortly after DotNet came out of beta. I think I know the MS development stack fairly well and I like the direction they are moving in with the likes […]