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Getting RestfulX and HerokuGarden to Play Nice

March 16, 2009 11:53 pm

If you’re using the very awesome HerokuGarden (or Heroku, for that matter) and are wanting to use the amazing RestfulX with it on an existing application there are a couple of not-exactly-obvious additional steps one needs to take in order to enable the HerokuGarden + RestfulX joy:

herokugarden create your_app_name
herokugarden clone your_app_name
cd your_app_name
mkdir lib
mkdir lib/tasks
mkdir vendor
edit config/heroku.yml to hide the heroku toolbar (otherwise the heroku toolbar covers the action buttons. One could also adjust one’s Flex app to be shorter, I s’pose.)

My heroku.yml, for example, looks like this:
toolbar_collaborators: false toolbar_public: false

It would be sweet to be able to run rake gems:unpack at this point but I wasn’t able to get that to work properly so I’ve been using the following workaround until I can figure that out (and check it into github):

Create an entirely separate rails app on your local machine:

cd ..
rails temporary_application
cd temporary_application
add config.gem 'restfulx' to environment.rb
rake gems:unpack

Copy the entire vendor directory into your HerokuGarden app: (OSX/linux version)

cp -R ./vendor/* ../your_app_name/vendor

Delete the temporary application:

cd ..
rm -rf temporary_application

Finish configuring your app:

cd your_app_name
add config.gem 'restfulx' to environment.rb
script/generate rx_config
git add .
git commit -m "Added the RestfulX sekrit sauce"
git push

Resume down the standard RestfulX path of development joy:

touch db/model.yml
edit model.yml to your liking
script/generate rx_yaml_scaffold
rake db:refresh
rake rx:flex:build
git add .
git commit -m "Created awesome RestfulX sample application"
git push

If you’re aware of a better way to do this then please let me know so I can update these directions.

Categories: Flex, Heroku, HerokuGarden, RestfulX, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
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Searching for Ruby Gems

2:09 pm

The gem command makes it trivially easy to search for gems.

To search for a gem installed locally:
gem search <gem name or search term>

To search for a gem from the vast number of gems which exist:
gem search -r <gem name or search term>
or:
gem search --remote <gem name or search term>

To search for a gem from the vast number of gems which exist and also show descriptions:
gem search -d -r <gem name or search term>
or:
gem search --details --remote <gem name or search term>

Important Note:
The stuff in brackets above is my blog-style for variables… the brackets aren’t part of the syntax. Sorry if that’s confusing but I’m not sure how else to indicate variables without finding an awesome code-sample-friendly CSS stylesheet.

Categories: Ruby
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san_jose_hackfest_on_steroids

June 16, 2008 5:25 pm

Several of us from not_joseph’s San Jose Ruby Hackfest Meetup have been getting together fairly frequently to hack. I’ve created a Google Group for folks in the South Bay area to announce when/where they’re hacking so that it’d be easier to set up impromtu hackfests and get to know other Ruby/Rails folks.

Please consider joining.