Month: December 2012

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 87,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

OpenShift Rails QuickStart

  1. Create a Ruby 1.9 application 
    rhc app create -a railsdemo -t ruby-1.9
  2. After running the command railsdemo folder will get created in your directory. Run the command shown below. This will generate rails code in the railsdemo folder.It will ask you whether you want to override, say yes. 
    rails new railsdemo
  3. Next run commands shown below 
    cd railsdemo
bundle install
rails generate controller home index
rm public/index.html
  4. Add the following route to config/routes.rb: 
    root :to => "home#index"
  5. Generate Post entity with fields as shown below 
    rails generate scaffold Post name:string title:string content:text
  6. Add Database support by uncommenting following lines from .openshift/action_hooks/deploy script 
    pushd ${OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR} > /dev/null
bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production"
popd > /dev/null
  7. Add mysql cartridge 
    rhc cartridge add -a railsdemo -c mysql-5.1
  8. Update config/database.yml 
    production:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8
  database: <%=ENV['OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME']%>
  pool: 5
  host: <%=ENV['OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_HOST']%>
  port: <%=ENV['OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_PORT']%>
  username: <%=ENV['OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_USERNAME']%>
  password: <%=ENV['OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_PASSWORD']%>
  socket: <%=ENV['OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_SOCKET']%>
  9. Add gem in Gemfile 
    gem 'mysql2'
  10. Add, Commit, and Push the Code 
    git add .
git commit -a -m "Initial setup"
git push
  11. Finally you can view the application running at http://railsdemo-domainname.rhcloud.com and you can create new posts at http://railsdemo-domainname.rhcloud.com/posts