My rails seed.rb has been getting huge and disorganized lately. It makes more sense to split it up into many smaller specific pieces, like users_seed.rb, games_seed.rb etc. Here is an easy way to do this:

First place all your seed files into the folder rails_app/db/seeds. seeds won’t exist so you’ll have to make it. After that start splitting up your huge seed.rb file into smaller pieces.

Now modify your seeds.rb to have only this code:

Dir[File.join(Rails.root, 'db', 'seeds', '**/*.rb')].each do |f|

  require f

end

This will require all seed files from the folder and subdirectories. Pretty awesome. Then run rake db:seed to make sure it works.
									

Wow, I only make blog posts when there is little information / documentation on something and this takes the cake. I’m currently switching from AWS s3 to Google Cloud Storage because it doesn’t support CORS. People have requested it for 3 years and I don’t think it’ll ever be added.

So I switched to Google Cloud Storage and now I have to modify paperclip to upload assets there. There isn’t much documentation on this, so I had to go around searching for hours. I’m going to save you lots of headache, just copy what I wrote below:


options = {}
options[:path] = attachment_path
options[:storage] = :fog
options[:url] = CONFIG['cdn'] #example: assets.blah.com

options[:fog_public] = true #this must be set to true or ALL assets will be private by DEFAULT
options[:fog_host] = CONFIG['HOST'] #example: http://assets.blah.com.commondatastorage.googleapis.com This can be changed to CDN
options[:fog_directory] =CONFIG['BUCKET'] #example: assets.blah.com


For the longest time all assets were being made private on Google Cloud Storage. I even changed the default ACL setting but no luck! This was a huge pain. Eventually I noticed the :fog_public wasn’t defaulting to true. So make sure :fog_public is always set to true!

I made a quick script to install Postgresql. Enter in:

curl -L gist.github.com/raw/3033843 | bash

Contents below:

# curl -L gist.github.com/raw/3033843 | bash
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pitti/postgresql
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install postgresql-9.1 libpq-dev -y

#su postgres
#psql -d postgres -U postgres
#alter user postgres with password 'a';
#\q


Type in the comments afterwards.

To add a new user type in this:

postgres@hostname:~$ createuser
Enter name of role to add: username
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n
Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n
CREATE ROLE