I am using git-deploy for one of my clients for their two servers.  It is quite similar to Capistrano but I like it better.

The git-deploy uses 3 files for deployment; after_push, before_restart, and restart.  I needed to restart Unicorn after deployments but found that I could not do so without using sudo and the password for the user.  This didn’t work in the “restart” file so I found myself manually restarting Unicorn after every deploy.  Pain in the ass……

First run “visudo” from the server command line.  It may require using sudo first.  Then I added:

<server_name> ALL=NOPASSWD: /etc/init.d/unicorn restart, /etc/init.d/unicorn stop, /etc/init.d/unicorn start

This gave the <server_user> the privilege to run sudo  /etc/init.d/unicorn restart without having to enter the password.

So I just needed to add run “sudo /etc/init.d/unicorn restart” to the git-deploy “restart file”

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I just released a beta version of Rails CRM – Advanced.  It is still pretty bare bones but we have added a few new features and a new look as well.  I am thinking of maybe providing a hosted solution for the new Rails CRM but I am not sure if there is any interest.

In the meantime, feel free to check it out at Rails CRM

As usual, this is open sourced and there are links to the Github repos on the front page.

We are using pdfkit to create our pdf’s.  What I needed to do was to take several pdf’s and merge them into one large pdf.  Frankly I did not think it was even possible.  I found several Ruby gems that were supposed to do the job but everyone I tried was just another PITA dead end.

After getting pointed in the right direction by @m3talsmith, I ended up solving my issue the old school way.  So, if you have done this before with Ruby gems stick with it.  If not, here we go…

def merge_pdfs
   pdfs = []
   pdfs << @bulletin.pdf.path
   @bulletin.bulletin_inserts.first.bulletin_insert_items.each do |bii|
     if bii.pdf.present?
      pdfs << bii.pdf.path
     end
   end
   if pdfs.count > 1
     system "gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=temp.pdf #{pdfs.join(' ')}"
     system "cat '/Users/bob/Projects/bulletin-builder/temp.pdf' > #{@bulletin.pdf.path}"
   end
 end

I first started with an empty array for pdfs.  Then I went thru a couple of processes to add all the pdfs to the pdfs array.

After that, comes the old school.  Using Ghostscript (gs) we joined all of the pdfs and outputted them to a temp.pdf.  I tried several times unsuccessfully to overwrite the original pdf but I never got it to work correctly.  After creating the temp.pdf we used good old cat command to copy the temp.pdf to the original pdf.

If you know or find a better way, please tell me!!

Just add this to you spec_helper.rb file:

config.after(:suite) do
  FileUtils.rm_rf(Dir["#{Rails.root}/public/system"])
end

Obviously change the directory to the correct one.

Hope that helps somebody

It took me longer to find the solution than it took to fix it.  If you are not getting a actual positive number in Rspec tests it might be Timecop.  We are using Timecop and the time was frozen, hence the crazy total time.  After running a test using Timecop, just add Timecop.return.

Piece of cake!!

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