Here’s a short list of things to do to get Git and Rails running on EC2:
Install Git
Install Rails
Just posting because i haven’t posted in months. This is just a post about the interesting balance (or potential lack of it) when running an IT consultancy.
It’s an odd one – business is booming; clients are a-plenty; clients are happy and all extending our working contracts; all is smooth and rosy. But, in this focus on business growth and client satisfaction, there’s little time to give to feeding back into the community: I’m not attending many events; i’m not blogging much; i’m not tweeting many interesting finds. I’m just working hard, making clients happy and getting paid.
I do know others in the community who focus very much on their relationships within the community, and more on sharing and expressing than on earning. I know others who have a dedicated focus on creating products for the future.
So, i have to say that mine is a short-termist view: Generate the revenue and deliver. Of course, along with that comes the creation of some great business relationships (clients and partners), but it’s highly in the present and focused.
So, in fairness, with my family’s desire to move into a much bigger house, i have to say that the business focus isn’t planning to shift within the next 6 months. After that, we’ll see. I definitely want to create a saleable product. Of that, i’m very sure.
More meaningful posts later…
A really neat feature of TextMate is the ability to call it from the command line and pass a directory or file as the object to open. Works great.
For this to work, you need to run a quick one-liner on the command line:
sudo ln -s /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate /usr/local/bin/mate
Once done, you can call mate and pass it any object you want to open, such as:
$ mate my_rails_app
and it opens the entire directory as if it were a TextMate project.
Lots more detail available here: http://manual.macromates.com/en/using_textmate_from_terminal.html
My upgrade to Snow Leopard killed my Merb, Cucumber and Webrat setup so i had to start afresh. That was the bad. The good is that some manual hacks that were required in Leopard are no longer necessary, meaning I can rely on direct gem installations.
Here’s what i did:
Deprecated Instructions on Snow Leopard that were required on Leopard
The following ugly hacks were required on Leopard with it’s default Ruby installation. These are no longer required (at least on my machine) on Snow Leopard:
Manual hack of Selenium
http://wiki.github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/setting-up-selenium
As the instructions recommended replacing the Selemium RC jar file () in the installed gem with one from the Selenium website, i had to find out where the gem had installed. Thankfully, gem -h pointed me toward gem help commands and from there i ran gem environment – This told me where gems are installed locally and i found that Selemium RC had been installed into /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/Selenium-1.1.14/ I replaced as advised and then ran selenium from within the app root and all worked fine, using the replacement. I then downloaded and ran the test selenium code from http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber/tree/master/examples/selenium running selenium in a different console and then running cucumber examples/selenium/features/ . It worked a treat and booted up selenium as required. Great!
Manual hack installation of webrat
Download http://github.com/gwynm/webrat/tree/master tar file. Git clone doesn’t work
sudo gem install hoe hpricot
cd downloaded and untarred file
rake gem
sudo gem install pkg/webrat-0.2.1.gem
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