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Ruby: interrupt a running script

Need to stop a running script in mid-stride and check/change variables?

Here’s how:

1. add Pry

require ‘pry’

2. add an Exception handler

rescue Exception => exception

    binding.pry

end

Now just use Ctrl C (on a Mac, Unix and Linux) and you’ll exit out with a debugger command prompt.

And exit pry permanently with:

!!!

    

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Rails: Phusion Passenger

Passenger is an application server for Ruby (Rack) and Python (WSGI) apps.

Some notes on installing it:

https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download

Ignore the docs that suggest:

$ sudo gem install passenger

$ sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

Instead use:

gem install passenger

passenger-install-apache2-module

Then paste the LoadModule code it spits out at the end into your Apache conf file.

Test whether Passenger has installed by running:

curl -sI localhost | grep ^Server

and check for the “Phusion_Passenger” signature. E.g. 

Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/4.0.5 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8x

If you need to uninstall Passenger using sudo then:

$ sudo gem uninstall passenger

And a discussion on whether to use rvmsudo or not here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyversionmanager/9dnmAsTiHR4

In short, https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download

suggests using `sudo` but the rvm page suggests not:

https://rvm.io/integration/passenger

Note:

If you get a warning doing the passenger install apache2 module like this:

rvmsudo rvm get stable && rvm reload && rvmsudo rvm repair all

Warning: can not check `/etc/sudoers` for `secure_path`, falling back to call via `/usr/bin/env`, this breaks rules from `/etc/sudoers`. Run:

    export rvmsudo_secure_path=1

Then run:

    export rvmsudo_secure_path=1

and:

rvmsudo rvm get stable && rvm reload && rvmsudo rvm repair all

(remember to run `rvm requirements` afterwards)

On the Mac the Apache conf and restart commands go like this:

[~]$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

[~]$ sudo apachectl restart

See also:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#featuredarticles/PhusionRails/_index.html

and this very useful guide:

http://jasoncodes.com/posts/mac-os-rails-server

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Rails: Phusion Passenger

Passenger is an application server for Ruby (Rack) and Python (WSGI) apps.

Some notes on installing it:

https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download

Ignore the docs that suggest:

$ sudo gem install passenger

$ sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

Instead use:

gem install passenger

should be sufficient and rvm.io suggests just running:

passenger-install-apache2-module

See also:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17245105/passenger-module-fails-to-install

and

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17248660/installing-passenger-use-sudo-rvmsudo-or-nothing

Then, paste the LoadModule code it spits out at the end into your Apache conf file.

Test whether Passenger has installed by running:

curl -sI localhost | grep ^Server

and check for the “Phusion_Passenger” signature. E.g. 

Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/4.0.5 mod_ssl/2.2.22 OpenSSL/0.9.8x

If you need to uninstall Passenger using sudo then:

$ sudo gem uninstall passenger

And a discussion on whether to use rvmsudo or not here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyversionmanager/9dnmAsTiHR4

In short, https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download

suggests using `sudo` but the rvm page suggests not:

https://rvm.io/integration/passenger

Note:

If you get a warning doing the passenger install apache2 module like this:

rvmsudo rvm get stable && rvm reload && rvmsudo rvm repair all

Warning: can not check `/etc/sudoers` for `secure_path`, falling back to call via `/usr/bin/env`, this breaks rules from `/etc/sudoers`. Run:

    export rvmsudo_secure_path=1

Then run:

    export rvmsudo_secure_path=1

and:

rvmsudo rvm get stable && rvm reload && rvmsudo rvm repair all

(remember to run `rvm requirements` afterwards)

On the Mac the Apache conf and restart commands go like this:

[~]$ sudo vim /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

[~]$ sudo apachectl restart

See also:

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#featuredarticles/PhusionRails/_index.html

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.bash_profile vs .bashrc

The difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc?

It’s always slightly confusing to remember how these work on Linux, Unix and Mac OS X. According to the bash man page, .bash_profile gets run for every login shell (i.e. when you login) – put lengthy, one-off stuff there like the daily news

.bashrc gets run for every non-login shell (e.g. when you open up another terminal in your window system)

Unfortunately Mac OS X does things slightly differently – .bash_profile gets called for each new instance of a Terminal!

More:

http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html

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Pry – Part 5 – Pry at runtime

Assuming you’ve halted the runtime at the point where you invoked the Pry REPL (see Pry – Part 4), you should have the Pry REPL.

A. The main ways of navigating the stack are the ls and cd commands.

ls shows you methods, constants and variables.

cd moves you into the new context (object or scope).

1. ls

 ls -h
Usage: ls [-m|-M|-p|-pM] [-q|-v] [-c|-i] [Object]
       ls [-g] [-l]

ls shows you which methods, constants and variables are accessible to Pry. By
default it shows you the local variables defined in the current shell, and any
public methods or instance variables defined on the current object.

The colours used are configurable using Pry.config.ls.*_color, and the separator
is Pry.config.ls.separator.

Pry.config.ls.ceiling is used to hide methods defined higher up in the
inheritance chain, this is by default set to [Object, Module, Class] so that
methods defined on all Objects are omitted. The -v flag can be used to ignore
this setting and show all methods, while the -q can be used to set the ceiling
much lower and show only methods defined on the object or its direct class.

    -m, --methods               Show public methods defined on the Object (default)
    -M, --instance-methods      Show methods defined in a Module or Class
    -p, --ppp                   Show public, protected (in yellow) and private (in green) methods
    -q, --quiet                 Show only methods defined on object.singleton_class and object.class
    -v, --verbose               Show methods and constants on all super-classes (ignores Pry.config.ls.ceiling)
    -g, --globals               Show global variables, including those builtin to Ruby (in cyan)
    -l, --locals                Show hash of local vars, sorted by descending size
    -c, --constants             Show constants, highlighting classes (in blue), and exceptions (in purple).
                                Constants that are pending autoload? are also shown (in yellow)
    -i, --ivars                 Show instance variables (in blue) and class variables (in bright blue)
    -G, --grep                  Filter output by regular expression
    -h, --help                  Show this message.

2. cd

> cd -h
Usage: cd [OPTIONS] [--help]

Move into new context (object or scope). As in UNIX shells use `cd ..` to go
back, `cd /` to return to Pry top-level and `cd -` to toggle between last two
scopes. Complex syntax (e.g `cd ../@x/y`) also supported.

cd @x
cd ..
cd /
cd -

https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/State-navigation#wiki-Changing_scope

    -h, --help      Show this message.

B. Apart from navigating state, there are two other commands that are very useful, show-method and show-doc.

1. show-method
This shows the source for a method or class. 

> show-method -h
Usage:   show-source [OPTIONS] [METH|CLASS]
Aliases: $, show-method

Show the source for a method or class. Tries instance methods first and then
methods by default.

show-source hi_method
show-source hi_method
show-source Pry#rep     # source for Pry#rep method
show-source Pry         # for Pry class
show-source Pry -a      # for all Pry class definitions (all monkey patches)
show-source Pry --super # for superclass of Pry (Object class)

https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Source-browsing#wiki-Show_method

    -s, --super             Select the 'super' method. Can be repeated to traverse the ancestors
    -l, --line-numbers      Show line numbers
    -b, --base-one          Show line numbers but start numbering at 1 (useful for `amend-line` and `play` commands)
    -a, --all               Show all definitions and monkeypatches of the module/class
    -h, --help              Show this message.

2. show-doc shows the documentation by running the method comments through rdoc or yard

> show-method -h
Usage:   show-source [OPTIONS] [METH|CLASS]
Aliases: $, show-method

Show the source for a method or class. Tries instance methods first and then
methods by default.

show-source hi_method
show-source hi_method
show-source Pry#rep     # source for Pry#rep method
show-source Pry         # for Pry class
show-source Pry -a      # for all Pry class definitions (all monkey patches)
show-source Pry --super # for superclass of Pry (Object class)

https://github.com/pry/pry/wiki/Source-browsing#wiki-Show_method

    -s, --super             Select the 'super' method. Can be repeated to traverse the ancestors
    -l, --line-numbers      Show line numbers
    -b, --base-one          Show line numbers but start numbering at 1 (useful for `amend-line` and `play` commands)
    -a, --all               Show all definitions and monkeypatches of the module/class
    -h, --help              Show this message.
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Pry – Part 2

More on using Pry.

Let’s play around with it a little using the Hello World gem (if you haven’t already installed it, use: gem install hello_world). Then, in pry:

require 'hello_world'

Some useful commands:

1. ls:
ls shows you which methods, constants and variables are accessible to Pry. By
default it shows you the local variables defined in the current shell, and any
public methods or instance variables defined on the current object.

So we can list, class methods:

ls HelloWorld -M
[]

i.e. nothing.

Instance methods:

ls HelloWorld -m
HelloWorld.methods: say_hello

i.e. this method is available.

And this is the default, i.e. 

ls HelloWorld
HelloWorld.methods: say_hello

e.g.:

HelloWorld.say_hello
hello world
=> nil

2. cd
cd moves you into a new context (object or scope). As in UNIX shells use cd .. to go
back, cd / to return to Pry top-level and cd – to toggle between last two
scopes.

So, 

cd HelloWorld

and now:

pry(HelloWorld):1> self
=> HelloWorld
pry(HelloWorld):1> ls -m
HelloWorld.methods: say_hello

So, we can invoke it like this:

pry(HelloWorld):1> say_hello
hello world
=> nil

However, if we’re only interested in the output value and not the return value then we can use a semi-colon:

pry(HelloWorld):1> say_hello;
hello world
pry(HelloWorld):1> 

[23] pry(HelloWorld):1> gem-cd hello_world
/Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/hello_world-0.0.2
[24] pry(HelloWorld):1> .pwd
/Users/snowcrash/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p327/gems/hello_world-0.0.2

More in Pry – Part 3.

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Automatic Post Tagger

Not quite as awesome as an automatic post categoriser but still pretty handy:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-post-tagger/