How to create and push a tag using git
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps to create and push a git tag. Tags are really important in development as they mark specific versions of the developed software project.
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40 minipostsHow to uninstall a specific version of Rails from your development machine
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps to successfully uninstall a specific version of Rails from your development system. Trying only to uninstall gem rails is not sufficient, you also need to uninstall gem railties.
How to push an empty commit to a remote repository
Sometimes, depending on what you are willing to do, especially when your deployment process is via git, you want to redeploy your application to the remote server, but there are no local changes on the repository to git push.
How to upgrade a Heroku production application to the latest stack via Heroku cli
This minipost will guide you through the process of updating a production application running on the Heroku platform to the latest stack via heroku cli. It is a straight forward process and we will use an empty commit with a relevant message to track the upgrade in history.
What is the difference between %w and %W array literals in Ruby
This minipost will explain in detail the difference between the lower case %w and the uppercase %W percent string literals in Ruby on string interpolation cases and escape sequences.
How to delete a git tag already pushed to remote origin
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps to delete a git tag that has been already push-ed to the git remote origin.
How to tail -f Ruby on Rails application logs on heroku server
This minipost contains the command to real-time tail -f your production application logs on a Heroku server.
How to install Ganache on Ubuntu from AppImage
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps to successfully install Ganache on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) from an AppImage.
How to install Apache JMeter on Ubuntu
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps to successfully install Apache JMeter on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver).
How to install pagy gem with a custom pagination template on a Ruby on Rails application
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps in order to successfully install pagy gem for pagination on a Ruby on Rails application using a custom HTML template.
How to interpolate a Ruby Symbol
One tricky part in terms of its syntax, is the interpolation of a Ruby Symbol. This minipost aims to demonstrate Ruby Symbol interpolation and also how to add a space between two seperate words on a Ruby symbol declaration.
rbenv: bundle: command not found
When you get the rbenv: bundle: command not found error it is most likely the case that you have installed a new Ruby version and you are trying to run a bundle command inside an existing project directory. For every new Ruby version you install, you also need to install the Bundler gem. This minipost will help understanding the case.
How to capture, download and restore a pg backup from Heroku production PostgreSQL to your local development machine
This minipost will guide you through the process of capturing, downloading and restoring the live production pg dump to your local development machine in order to sync our development database with the production latest. Commands from the Heroku toolbelt and the pg_restore command will be used.
How to install Sentry to a Ruby on Rails application on a production environment
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps in order to successfully perform an advanced installation of Sentry on a Ruby on Rails application for production environment monitoring.
How to install Sidekiq to a Ruby on Rails project deployed on Dokku server
This minipost will guide you through all the required steps needed in order to successfully deploy a sidekiq service on a Ruby on Rails application. We will focus on herokuish servers, try to cover both Heroku and Dokku implementations, that are pretty much the same.
How to add Basic HTTP Authentication to Sidekiq UI mounted on a Rails application
When your Ruby on Rails project does not have any form of user authentication, not using devise, or any custom authentication and you need to secure your SIdekiq UI, you can add Sidekiq Basic HTTP Authentication from the application’s routes to the mounted Sidekiq engine.
How to tail -f Ruby on Rails application logs on dokku server
This minipost contains the easy command to tail -f your production application logs on a dokku server.
How to create a deploy user on Ubuntu server and disable password authentication
It is a good practice to avoid using the root user for deployments on production servers. This minipost will guide you through the process of creating a new deploy user and associating development machine’s SSH public key for authentication. This guide is a very good initial Ubuntu server setup for a production server.
Dokku deployment error: You must use Bundler 2 or greater with this lockfile.
When deploying on a dokku server with herokuish and default buildpacks, If your Ruby on Rails application was bundled with Bundler version 2+, your console might throw the following error You must use Bundler 2 or greater with this lockfile, resulting in deployment failure. This minipost will demonstrate, how to configure a buildpack for a Ruby on Rails project on a dokku server, that can handle Bundler version 2+ and successfully deploy the application.
How to add a post deployment script to run Rails migrations on a dokku server
Dokku provides limited support to the app.json manifest file, that describes the web application in a heroku environment. This minipost, with demonstrate the required setup in order to run the Rails migrations upon deployment using app.json file on a dokku server.