rails development environment tips

7/30/2019 Rails development environment tips

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Rails dev env tips&tricksfor RubyGarage by Leonid Shevtsov


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Control your environment, because it controls you.


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Pow

Replaces: rails [s]erver

Lets you run multiple apps on virtual hosts

app1.dev, app2.dev, ... - as much as you need

zero configuration for Rails
http://pow.cx/http://pow.cx/http://pow.cx/


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Pow - powder

gem install powder

Convenient wrapper for common Pow actions (Powhas no interface of its own.)

powder link

powder restart, powder always_restart

powder log


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Pow - remote testing

How can you test your site on a phone/tablet?

How can you share the site with a QA engineer?

app.1.1.1.1.xip.io routes to ip 1.1.1.1

Pow routes app.1.1.1.1.xip.io to actual app.

No magic, no security issues.


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Pow - not only for Rails

Any Rack app is naturally supported.

Any static site is naturally supported.

Any app.dev can be routed to a server listening on

some port (PHP or node.js or nginx or else).


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Pry

Replaces: irb and rails [c]onsole

Thats just the tip of an iceberg of usefulness.

Not only forrunning code, but for exploring code.

Read the wiki (seriously)
http://pryrepl.org/http://pryrepl.org/http://pryrepl.org/http://pryrepl.org/http://pryrepl.org/


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Pry - just replace irb

All you need is to paste this into your ~/.irbrc

require rubygemsrequire pryPry.start

exit


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Pry - browse methods

show-method - show source code of a method

edit-method - open the method in your editor (useful

for debugging gems)


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Pry - rescue exceptions

Debug your code without writing extra code.

wtf? command shows backtrace.

edit --ex edits code at the exception line.

pry-rescue and pry-exception-explorer - open pryinside the exception handler


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Sublime Text 2

Replaces:your clunky editor

A modern, crossplatform text editor.

Really fast. Keyboard controlled.

Easy to extend; Python API.

A great visual approach to macro editing.

Free and fully featured for an unlimited period of time.
http://www.sublimetext.com/http://www.sublimetext.com/http://www.sublimetext.com/http://www.sublimetext.com/


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ST2 - syntax checking

For me, one of the most useful features of any editor.Syntastic plugin

Handles most popular languages (and extendable).

Ruby, Haml, Sass, Javascript, Coffeescript


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ST2 - splits

For me, one of the must-have features of a code editor.Has splits built in, but a bit cumbersome.

Origami plugin makes splitsalmostas easy as Vim.

(no open file in split command)


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ST2 - package control

Package Control plugin

A centralised repository of plugins, with one-clickinstallation.

The configuration is plaintext and packages are just

directories. Easy to backup, .dotfiles-ready.Google sync sublime text 2 dropbox


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Questions?

Questions?

git & hub

ssh-config

oh-my-zsh

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