Double Shot #633

It was a busy weekend - apparently for other people as well as for me.

• couch.io - Managed hosting and support for CouchDB.
• UTC vs Ruby, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, Heroku and Postgres - Some notes on time zones in ruby web apps.
• SSL Certificate Check - From DigiCert, but works for any SSL site. A fast way to tell whether you have things configured and installed correctly.
• Rapid Application Deployment with Git - Nice new workflow from from Webbynode. I need to dust off my Webbynode account and play with this.
• pgtune - Automatic configuration tuning utility for PostgreSQL.
• Active Record Query Interface 3.0 - Shiny new finders for Rails 3.
• jQuery QueryString Plugin - Came in handy for hooking up Rails controller methods and stuff inside the jQuery.
• Getting Up to Speed with Rails 3 - Detailed look at moving over an existing Rails application.
• jQuery.sheet - Excel-ish spreadsheet implemented in jQuery.
• Git Branch Auto-Tracking - Useful tip from Mike Champion.
• MySQL Tip: How To Check, Repair & Optimize All Tables in All Databases - I never knew about mysqlcheck, but now that I do I'll likely be using it again.
• murder - Deployment via BitTorrent, courtesy of Twitter. Cute idea, but the number of sites that need this is vanishingly small.

Comments

[Felipe Coury]

Mike,

Another great utility for handling remote branches is git_remote_branch - http://github.com/webmat/git_remote_branch. This is my favorite tool that hides much of the complexity of handling with them:


$ grb
git_remote_branch version 0.3.0

Usage:

grb create branch_name [origin_server]

grb publish branch_name [origin_server]

grb rename branch_name [origin_server]

grb delete branch_name [origin_server]

grb track branch_name [origin_server]



Notes:
- If origin_server is not specified, the name 'origin' is assumed (git's default)
- The rename functionality renames the current branch

The explain meta-command: you can also prepend any command with the keyword 'explain'. Instead of executing the command, git_remote_branch will simply output the list of commands you need to run to accomplish that goal.
Example:
grb explain create
grb explain create my_branch github

All commands also have aliases:
create: create, new
delete: delete, destroy, kill, remove, rm
publish: publish, remotize, share
rename: rename, rn, mv, move
track: track, follow, grab, fetch


And by the way, thanks for the plug on the Rapid App Deployment ;)