Rogelio J. Samour

The Install (Snow Leopard Edition)

2010-05-20T15:51:17-04:00

Long story short

The following are steps we take at Hashrocket when setting up a near perfect Ruby development environment in OS X (Snow Leopard)¹. Feel free to copy and paste the commands into your terminal.

A Word of Caution

While it is unlikely any instruction given below might damage your system, it’s always a good idea to backup everything before doing any of it, just in case. I am not responsible for anything that may result from following the instructions below. Proceed at your own risk.

Prerequisite OS X Apps:

- Chrome (+ vimium, make default?)
- Firefox (+ firebug)
- Fluid.app
- Gitx
- Macvim (move mvim to /usr/local/bin)
- SizeUp
- Teleport
- xCode

Snow Leopard Samba Fix²

12	echo "[default]" > ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.confecho "streams=no" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

Remove system gems

123	sudo rm -r /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8sudo gem update --systemsudo gem clean

Install homebrew

123	sudo mkdir /usr/localsudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/localcurl -L http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master \| tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local

Create .bash_profile

1 echo '. "$HOME/.bashrc"' > ~/.bash_profile

Install utilities

1 brew install wget proctools ack ctags-exuberant markdown

Get git

1 brew install git

dotfiles, dev folder

mkdir ~/hashrocket
cd ~/hashrocket
git clone http://github.com/hashrocket/dotmatrix.git

ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.bashrc ~/
ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.hashrc ~/
ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.vim ~/
ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.vimrc ~/
sh ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/bin/vimbundles.sh

Install rvm

mkdir -p ~/.rvm/src/ && \
  cd ~/.rvm/src && \
  rm -rf ./rvm/ && \
  git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm.git && \
  cd rvm && \
  ./install
echo 'if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ; fi' \
       >> ~/.bashrc.local
echo 'rvm_project_rvmrc_default=1' \
  > ~/.rvmrc # Use default gemset when leaving a .rvmrc project dir
echo '[[ -r $rvm_path/scripts/completion ]] && source $rvm_path/scripts/completion' \
       >> ~/.bashrc.local # rvm autocompletion

Install openssl

1 rvm package install openssl

Install the rubies to your heart’s content

123	rvm install ree -C --enable-shared=yesrvm install ruby-1.8.7-p248 -C --enable-shared=yesrvm use 1.8.7-p248 --default

Setup your .gemrc

echo -e '---
:benchmark: false
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
:update_sources: true
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:verbose: true
:sources:
- http://rubygems.org
- http://gems.github.com
:backtrace: false' > ~/.gemrc

MySQL

1 brew install mysql # Follow instructions

Postgresql

1 brew install postgresql # Follow instructions

Install global gems

123	rvm gemset use globalgem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/bin/mysql_configgem install open_gem mongrel pg ruby-debug hitch

RubyCocoa (for rspactor)

mkdir -p /usr/local/src
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubycocoa/files/RubyCocoa/1.0.0/RubyCocoa-1.0.0.tar.gz/download
tar xzf RubyCocoa-1.0.0.tar.gz && rm RubyCocoa-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd RubyCocoa-1.0.0
ruby install.rb config --build-universal=yes
ruby install.rb setup
# have to sudo to install this because the installer wants to copy example stuff out of the /System dir
sudo ruby install.rb install
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local # For good measure

Growl

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://growl.cachefly.net/Growl-1.2.dmg
open Growl-1.2.dmg
cd /Volumes/Growl-1.2/Extras/growlnotify/
# Don't use the install shell script
# Use the following:
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
echo "Creating /usr/local/bin"
mkdir -p /usr/local/man/man1
echo "Creating /usr/local/man/man1"
cp growlnotify /usr/local/bin/growlnotify
cp growlnotify.1 /usr/local/man/man1/growlnotify.1

Generate a pubkey for that station

12	ssh-keygen -t rsa# Add public key to your github account

¹ It may work for Leopard… I just haven’t tried it yet.

² More info (Thanks Alan Jones for the tip)

The Install (Debian Edition)

2010-05-20T10:51:17-04:00

Long story short

The following are steps we take at Hashrocket when setting up a near perfect Ruby development environment in GNU/Linux (Debian/Ubuntu). Feel free to copy and paste the commands into your terminal.

A Word of Caution

Prerequisite Debian/Ubuntu Apps:

- Chrome (+ vimium, make default?)
- Firefox (+ firebug)

Install vim

1 sudo apt-get install vim-gnome

Install utilities

12	sudo apt-get install curl bison build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline5-dev libxml2-devsudo apt-get install wget ack exuberant-ctags markdown gitk

get git

1 sudo apt-get install git-core

dotfiles, dev folder

123	mkdir ~/hashrocketcd ~/hashrocketgit clone http://github.com/hashrocket/dotmatrix.git

Only do the following line when installing on a pairing station

ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.bashrc ~/

ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.hashrc ~/
ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.vim ~/
ln -s ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/.vimrc ~/
sh ~/hashrocket/dotmatrix/bin/vimbundles.sh

Install rvm

mkdir -p ~/.rvm/src/ && \
  cd ~/.rvm/src && \
  rm -rf ./rvm/ && \
  git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm.git && \
  cd rvm && \
  ./install
echo 'if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ; fi' \
       >> ~/.bashrc.local
echo 'rvm_project_rvmrc_default=1' \
  > ~/.rvmrc # Use default gemset when leaving a .rvmrc project dir
echo '[[ -r $rvm_path/scripts/completion ]] && source $rvm_path/scripts/completion' \
       >> ~/.bashrc.local # rvm autocompletion

Install openssl

1 rvm package install openssl

Install the rubies to your heart’s content

123	rvm install ree -C --enable-shared=yesrvm install ruby-1.8.7-p248 -C --enable-shared=yesrvm use 1.8.7-p248 --default

Setup your .gemrc

echo -e '---
:benchmark: false
gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc
:update_sources: true
:bulk_threshold: 1000
:verbose: true
:sources:
- http://rubygems.org
- http://gems.github.com
:backtrace: false' > ~/.gemrc

MySQL

1 sudo apt-get install mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 # Follow instructions

Postgresql

1 sudo apt-get install postgresql-common postgresql-server-dev-8.3 # Follow instructions

Install global gems

123	rvm gemset use globalgem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/bin/mysql_configgem install open_gem mongrel pg ruby-debug hitch

Generate a pubkey for that station

12	ssh-keygen -t rsa# Add public key to your github account

Engine Yard Cloud and Resque-Web

2010-04-20T17:13:16-04:00

So at Hashrocket, we’ve been deploying a number of apps to Engine Yard Cloud. Some of these apps have required the use of background jobs. A library that facilitates that is called Resque. Once set up¹, it has a Sinatra web app you can use to monitor the queue’s progress. To make a long story short, it isn’t trivial to setup Resque Web on Engine Yard Cloud. This is what we did to make it work:

In your environment.rb add the following line:

1 Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
2   #[...]
3   config.middleware.use 'ResqueWeb'
4 end

Then create a library under RAILS_ROOT/lib/resque_web.rb with the following:

 1 require 'sinatra/base'
 2 class ResqueWeb < Sinatra::Base
 3   require 'resque/server'
 4   use Rack::ShowExceptions
 5   def call(env)
 6     if env["PATH_INFO"] =~ /^\/resque/
 7       env["PATH_INFO"].sub!(/^\/resque/, '')
 8       env['SCRIPT_NAME'] = '/resque'
 9       app = Resque::Server.new
10       app.call(env)
11     else
12       super
13     end
14   end
15 end

That’s it. Deploy your app to staging to test it and boom!

¹ This assumes you already have Resque installed in your EY Cloud app.

Hitch!

2009-04-20T17:04:38-04:00

At Hashrocket, we pair program all the time. In order to properly give credit to both programmers, we wrote a helper in the form of a gem. We called it Hitch!

So how does it work?

In the spirit of staying DRY, I will direct you to Les Hill’s blog post: Pairing with Hitch

Enjoy.

Rogelio J. Samour

The Install (Snow Leopard Edition)

Long story short

A Word of Caution

Prerequisite OS X Apps:

Snow Leopard Samba Fix2

Remove system gems

Install homebrew

Create .bash_profile

Install utilities

Get git

dotfiles, dev folder

Install rvm

Install openssl

Install the rubies to your heart’s content

Setup your .gemrc

MySQL

Postgresql

Install global gems

RubyCocoa (for rspactor)

Growl

Generate a pubkey for that station

The Install (Debian Edition)

Long story short

A Word of Caution

Prerequisite Debian/Ubuntu Apps:

Install vim

Install utilities

get git

dotfiles, dev folder

Only do the following line when installing on a pairing station

Install rvm

Install openssl

Install the rubies to your heart’s content

Setup your .gemrc

MySQL

Postgresql

Install global gems

Generate a pubkey for that station

Engine Yard Cloud and Resque-Web

In your environment.rb add the following line:

Then create a library under RAILS_ROOT/lib/resque_web.rb with the following:

Hitch!

So how does it work?

Snow Leopard Samba Fix²