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Rails 2.3 Template for Dreamhost
I’ve started playing with Rails 2.3 after a bit of a break (Ruby hasn’t been my main programming language until very recently) and I have to say that Templates ROCK!
Working from Casper Fabricus’ script to setup a new git repository on Dreamhost and John Nunemaker’s tutorial on getting your rails app running on dreamhost with passenger and combined them into one template:
#Get the applicaiton name from the current working directory app_name = File.basename( FileUtils.pwd ) #Ask some leading questions ssh_domain = ask( "What is the domain of you git repository (ie. example.com)?") ssh_user = ask( "What is the shell user name to access your git repository?" ) ssh_location = "#{ssh_user}@#{ssh_domain}" #There is probably a better way to write these two lines project_domain = app_name project_domain = ask( "What is the domain to which your application will be deployed?" ) if no?( "Use #{app_name} as the deployment domain for your application?") #Setup Capistrano capify! #Need an odd mixture of variable substitution. deploy_file = "default_run_options[:pty] = true # be sure to change these set :user, '#{ssh_user}' set :ssh_domain, '#{ssh_domain}' set :application, '#{app_name}' set :domain, '#{project_domain}' " deploy_file << %q{ # the rest should be good set :repository, "#{user}@#{ssh_domain}:git/#{application}.git" set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/#{domain}" set :deploy_via, :remote_cache set :scm, 'git' set :branch, 'master' set :git_shallow_clone, 1 set :scm_verbose, true set :use_sudo, false server domain, :app, :web role :db, domain, :primary => true namespace :deploy do task :restart do run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt" end end } file 'config/deploy.rb', deploy_file # rails:rm_tmp_dirs ["./tmp/pids", "./tmp/sessions", "./tmp/sockets", "./tmp/cache"].each do |f| run("rmdir ./#{f}") end run "ssh #{ssh_location} 'mkdir -p ~/git/'#{app_name}'.git && cd ~/git/'#{app_name}'.git && git --bare init'" git :init git :remote => "add origin ssh://#{ssh_location}/~/git/#{app_name}.git" initializer '.gitignore', <<-CODE log/\\*.log log/\\*.pid db/\\*.db db/\\*.sqlite3 db/schema.rb tmp/\\*\\*/\\* .DS_Store doc/api doc/app config/database.yml CODE git :add => "." git :commit => "-a -m 'Created #{app_name}'" git :push => "origin master" initializer '.git/config', <<-CODE [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master CODE
Why does your site look funny?
There is a good chance that if you're using Internet Explorer of any generation, or FireFox 2 or pretty much any older browser, that this site is going to look very funny. Broken even.
That's because there is an experiment going on here; this site is built using HTML5 markup. In paid professional work, I have to "make it work everywhere" which typically means the lowest common denominator. But this is my place. I can afford to try out different things. I believe that the semantic value of <section>, <article> and <header> tags is huge. The calculation of the header level will be a great boon when including content in many different, and unexpected, in the content hierarchy of a page.
This site is also using the latest CSS specifications where possible. Some browsers do better with that than others. IE6 will probably always be a basket case but with its individual market share at 15% and dropping like a stone, its probably time for you to upgrade to IE7 or try IE8.
I make no apologies for not checking this site against multiple browsers. Tweaking out every browser is a lot of work that I would rather spend writing articles. However, feel free to send be bug reports; I'll get to them as I can
Who and What is Little Fyr?
I am a Web Architect and Little Fyr is where I talk about how to build applications and content sites on the Web. It is also the name I use for giving presentations at user group meetings and conferences. I have more than 8 years of experience developing web sites and applications and I have learned a lot of interesting disciplines along the way. In general, people in our line of work are either visual/UI/grapic designers, back-end system developers (Java, .Net, Ruby), or front end ui developer (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). I fall into that group of people who is knowledgeable in all these disciplines and more besides.
Like me, this site is a work in progress. I hope to publish something every two weeks. We shall see.
Comments
Ashish Dixit said on Saturday, March 21, 2009:
I can't see anything on the site. I am using Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Version 3.07.
Little Fyr said on Saturday, March 21, 2009:
OOPS. I accidentally deleted the content of the page… Its back now.
thanks for the heads up.
Brandon Martinez said on Saturday, March 21, 2009:
If only you came a day sooner! I just spent a ton of time writing one of these. Check it out:
http://files.brandon-martinez.com/basic.rb
This creates SSH keys to enable passwordless logins as well.
Louis St-Amour said on Wednesday, September 23, 2009:
This script may have been written to use Shoes, or something like it. You can swap it to use Highline by doing a sudo gem install highline, then adding require 'rubygems' and require 'highline/import'. You will also need to change the if no? method to unless agree. Ah ... I can't figure out where the "capify!" command came from, however, so I'm at a loss at how to run this.
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У данной статьи неформальный, информативный стиль, спасибо Вам.
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