Wondering Mike

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language-terraform on Atom Editor

Of course there is!

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Docker Image already exists

After docker push I'm waiting longer and longer for all of the "Image already exists" messages to finish before the real data is pushed. It's deflating my Docker glow a bit. It's an old issue and still no progress. Does Docker think this is ok?

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I need to remember this: Tip: Relative paths with File.expand_path

config_path = File.expand_path("../config.yml", __FILE__)

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Fixtures are back in vogue

I've avoided Rails fixtures for years but for a new project I thought I'd take a fresh look. I found a new strategy that recommends fixture data for the small set of of db records that appear in many tests while using factories for data unique to particular tests. This approach will speed up tests by eliminating the setup/teardown of the fixture'd data. Fixtures are inserted once before the full test run. Tests are wrapped in a transaction which is rolled back after each test. A few links that got my attention:

http://brandonhilkert.com/blog/using-rails-fixtures-to-seed-a-database/

http://collectiveidea.com/blog/archives/2014/08/06/time-to-bring-back-fixtures/

http://metabates.com/2010/08/15/fixtures-v-factories-cant-we-all-just-get-along/

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GitLab Flow

I still haven't studied GitLab Flow enough.

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Byobu

Trying out Byobu as a tmux replacement wrapper today.

Update: I went back to staight `tmux`. Byobu got confused by my Advantage Kinesis keyboard in Dvorak with some key mappings.

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GitLab provides free private repositories! GitHub pay attention!

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Responsive Google Map

Responsive Google Map

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Ruby Heredoc without Interpolation

x = "Universe" <<-'MESSAGE' Hello #{x} MESSAGE # => "Hello #{x}"

Apparently Tumblr doesn't do code blocks well.

H/T http://makandracards.com/

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rubocop config values

I haven't found any documentation on the many rubocop config options but running rubocop --auto-gen-config will create a .rubocop_todo.yml that contains all the offending conditions in the codebase. These can be copied to .rubocop.yml.

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zsh: no match found (in rake)

Calling rake tasks with args in zshell produces "zsh: no match found" unless ~/.zshrc contains

unsetopt nomatch

Big thanks to Chad Pytel of Thoughbot.

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Vagrant? No thank you.

Having spent days and days and days configuring vagrant for various apps, I'm punting. No more vagrant on the current project. The shell scripts I developed will work just fine for the server builds.

Update: Vagrant was having a bad month due to an incompatibility in the vagrant-vbguest plugin. Months later, I'm still using Vagrant and now I'm happy about it.

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RVM >> rbenv

Yesterday I made the switch to rbenv. I think I'm happier. RVM required sudo to install on the server. meh.

Edit: no, I was not happier. I dumped rbenv too. Now I compile ruby without either one on the servers.

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Ruby Style Guide

I'm getting on board with Ruby Style Guide

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Upstart for servers

Upstart is the modern way to start (among other things) server processes.

Tutorial clued me in to start-stop-daemon.

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GPG in Apple Mail

Send securely encrypted email with GPG.