echo "svnuser <mygithubemail@example.com>" > authors
mkdir myproject-git
cd myproject-git
git svn init -t tags -b branches -T trunk svn+ssh://svnuser@mysvnhost/path/to/svn/repo
git svn fetch --authors-file=../authors
git for-each-ref refs/remotes/tags --shell --format="r=%(refname:short) t=\${r#tags/}" | while read e; do eval "$e"; git tag -f $t refs/remotes/$r; git branch -d -r $r; done
git remote add origin git@github.com:gituser/mygitrepo.git
git push -u origin master
git push --tags

The git for-each-ref script was taken from gitready.com and converts the tag branches into actual git tags and then delete those branches from the new git repository.

SVN externals will not be imported. In that event, you may find a git mirror of the svn repositories and you can set them up as submodules:

git submodule add git://github.com/path/an-old-svn-external.git vendor/my-new-submodule
cd vendor/my-new-submodule
git checkout v1.0
cd ..
git add my-new-submodule
git commit -m "adding submodule at v1.0"
git push

sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1777854/git-submodules-specify-a-branch-tag

If you need to find a specific svn revision number so you can tie your git submodule to the same revision, this will parse all of the git log messages (which will contain the svn revision number of it was imported from an svn repository) and display the revision numbers for you:

git log -z | tr '\n\0' ' \n' | sed 's/\(commit \S*\) .*git-svn-id: svn:[^@]*@\([0-9]*\) .*/\1 r\2/'

source: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2872369/149503

1. mycrypt extension is no longer installed. To get this working I had to update/reinstall Developer Tools (from the App Store), install libmcrypt using macports, and then more or less follow the instructions here (changing 10.6 to 10.7 as necessary).

2. Path to ruby gems was missing/changed. Reinstalling the gems I needed fixed the issue.

It’s hard to find good, free (or even cheap), web site templates. You may want to experiment with either a free hosted wordpress blog (http://wordpress.com), or a free tumblr account (http://www.tumblr.com). Both have a lot of free web templates to choose from and you might find one you like.

I would sign up with both and poke around a bit to see which one you like the best. Although both market themselves as blogs (or ‘tumble-logs’, which is for short-form blogging), they each let you create basic pages, too. You might find the multimedia features are lacking (especially if you are used to a paid service dedicated to photographers, for example) but with the right template I’m sure you can display your portfolio nicely.

Both with let you point your own web address to your new site (wordpress charges something like $12/year for this).

I would start with a free wordpress account for now (https://en.wordpress.com/signup/) and if you like it you can upgrade to use your own URL later. You can explore the themes they have at http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/.

Tumblr has some nice themes too. Generally I think tumblr expects you to post short little blog snippets rather than use it to host a full website (tumblr themes are at http://www.tumblr.com/themes/), but you might find a template that works. (You may also want to explore posterous.com, which in my opinion has less artist themes but better functionality for group-blogs where you have multiple people posting to the same site.)

I’d create accounts and both and try to build a simple “About” page to see which you enjoy working with more. Good luck!

If you just want to jump to the fun stuff, install the hit list 1.0 on your mac, install the safari extension, and then try clicking this link to add a todo to you task inbox. Here is what the link looks like:

<a href="thehitlist:///inbox/tasks?method=POST&title=Do something crazy&notes=Testing The Hit List safari extension&url=stereointeractive.com/blog">Click here to add a task</a>

The basic idea is to use thehitlist:////tasks?method=POST and then add various parameters to the URL with the title, description, or priority for the task.

Here are the full docs for the URL scheme.

The Hit List Safari Extension Readme

The Hit List handles URLs with 'thehitlist' scheme in the following manner:
Look up by UID
==============
 
Show the task or group with the UID in The Hit List application.
 
	thehitlist:///<UID>
 
 
Look up by Group Name
=====================
 
Show group with name 'group2', that is a subgroup of 'group1'.
 
	thehitlist:///<group1>/<group2>
 
 
Task Creation
=============
 
Add new task to group with name 'group'.
 
	thehitlist:///<group>/tasks?method=POST&index=<n>&title=<title>&notes=<notes>
 
	You can only add to lists and the Today group.
 
 
Parameters
-------------------
 
- method
 
	This has to be 'POST' for task creation.
 
- title
 
	Title of the new task
 
- notes
 
	Notes to include in the task
 
- url
 
	The URL to include in the task notes
 
- startDate, dueDate
 
	Dates can be specified using the shorthand value that The Hit List application understands. For
	example, "6/4", "June 4, 2010", "4" (4th of the next month), "wed", "4d" (in four days),
	"today", "t" (today), and so on and so on. If you add a task to the Today group, the start date
	gets automatically set to today.
 
- estimatedTime
 
	Example values are 30m, 0.5h 1d, and so on.
 
- priority
 
	Priority can range from 0 to 9 where 0 is no priority
 
- index
 
	An index value of n will insert to that index in the group or task. Index of -1 is a special
	case where it will add to the end of the list, the default is 0.

To encode video on a mac, I like Miro Video Converter. It has a super simple drag and drop interface and can encode Theora, WebM, and many others.

This begs the question, how do we make our custom columns sortable, too? If we add custom meta attributes to posts or create custom post types, sometimes it’s nice to display these fields in the admin tables. There are plenty of posts out there that describe how do that. So, let’s focus on how to make these columns sortable.

A new filter was introduced called manage_{$screen->id}_sortable_columns. This works just like the existing filter that we use to add our own column headings to the table. Let’s imagine we created a meta field for our posts called ‘my_author’. (Remember, it’s a good idea to prepend your meta columns with a custom prefix. As an example we’ll use “my_” but you should probably use something more specific in your code. We usually use “stereo_”.

      // add this code to wherever you define your custom post type, usually within a plugin or your theme's functions.php file.
      // you should be familiar with this filter from earlier versions of wp...
      add_filter("manage_edit-".$post_type."_columns", 'my_edit_columns'));
      // this is the new filter which expects an array in the format of id => data
      add_filter("manage_edit-".$post_type."_sortable_columns", 'my_sortable_columns');

      // ...
        function my_sortable_columns($columns)
  	{
  	  $custom = array(
            // meta column id => sortby value used in query
  	    'my_author'    => 'my_author',
  	  );

  	  return wp_parse_args($custom, $columns);
  	}

If you have it set up correctly, when you view your list of posts in the admin area, the columns defined in your my_sortable_columns function should be active links, and clicking on them toggle sort order.

http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/5750/custom-field-meta-populated-by-dropdown-of-existing-posts

ssh -D 8080 -f -C -q -N user@yourserver.com

• -D 8080 is a switch that makes this session act as a SOCKS server. You can use any free port above 1023.
• -f “forks” this process so it runs in the background… you don’t have leave your terminal session open to keep the connection alive.
• -C is for “compression”. This actually may not help you if you have a fast connection, so you might want to try without it.
• -q is for “quiet mode” and suppresses most warning and diagnostic messages (leave this out if you are having trouble)
• -N is for “no command” and is useful when you are just forwarding ports like we are, and is necessary when you fork the process

You can get the full rundown of these switches in the man page.

If this works, the command will just run and put you right back at your prompt. If you want check if it is running, use ps -aux | grep ssh to see the process.

Now that your secure tunnel is configured, it’s time to update your PHP cURL code to use it.

  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
 
  // we want to post XML, so lets change the content type header
  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, Array("Content-Type: text/xml"));
 
  // make it a POST request, rather than the default GET
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
 
  // the POSTFIELDS option doesn't just take an array, you can also use a string!
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
 
  // without this curl will not return the server response
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
 
  // configure curl to use SOCKS5
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
 
  // 127.0.0.1 is your local IP, and 8080 is the port number we used for our tunnel
  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, '127.0.0.1:8080'); 
 
  // perform the curl session
  $result = curl_exec($ch);

Let’s say I have a model “Payment” and it has a one-to-many relationship with “Person” (i.e. one person has many payments, or the payment table has a foreign key “person_id”). I want the list of payments sortable by “last_name”.

In generator.yml:

 config:
  fields:
   last_name: { is_real: true }
...
  list:
    display:  [id, date, amount, last_name]

Let’s update our Payment.class.php file with methods to fetch the person’s last name.

class Payment extends BasePayment
{
...
  public function getLastName()
  {
    return $this->Person->last_name;
  }

Now, if you reload your generated list view, you’ll see the column heading for last_name has been converted to a link. Now, we’ll have to add this foreign column (last_name) to our query and also add some logic to sort by the proper column when necessary.

Let’s add a custom table method to our list query, adding another line to generator.yml:

...
config:
  list:
  ...
    table_method: doSelectJoinPerson

Let’s add the new method to our PaymentTable.class.php:

class PaymentTable extends Doctrine_Table
{
  ...  
  public static function doSelectJoinPerson($query)
  {
    $rootAlias = $query->getRootAlias();
 
    return $query->select($rootAlias . '.*, p.last_name')
      ->leftJoin($rootAlias . '.Person p');
  }
}

The table_method parameter in our list configuration is used to define which method should be executed on our model’s table when it fetches results from the database. Our main model will always have an alias “r” as defined in the symfony/doctrine source code (check out sfFormFilterDoctrine::doBuildQuery()).

We now need to pass the table alias for our foreign table (in this case, we used ‘p’ for Person) into our sort query if ‘last_name’ is given as our sort parameter. Let’s override the addSortQuery($query) in our actions class:

class paymentActions extends autoPaymentActions
{
...
  protected function addSortQuery($query)
  {
    if (array(null, null) == ($sort = $this->getSort()))
    {
      return;
    }
 
    if (!in_array(strtolower($sort[1]), array('asc', 'desc')))
    {
      $sort[1] = 'asc';
    }
 
    switch ($sort[0]) {
      case 'last_name':
        $sort[0] = 'p.last_name';
        break;
    }
 
    $query->addOrderBy($sort[0] . ' ' . $sort[1]);
  }
...

Update:A few comments below pointed out for the default admin generator theme you’ll also need to add the following method to your controller (actions.class.php):

protected function isValidSortColumn($column)
{
  return Doctrine_Core::getTable(‘Payment’)->hasColumn($column) || $column == ‘last_name’;
}

Once you get used to this process, it’s really not too hard to implement for all of your admin-generated modules. No plugins necessary.

Update 2: Updated doSelect query to use root alias defined in the query per the comments below.

gem install passenger

passenger-install-apache2-module

Here the installer (which is awesome and very user friendly) will tell you if you have all the required components, and if not, it will tell you what you need to do to install them.

I was missing Curl development headers with SSL support.

yum install curl-devel

once that finished, try again:

passenger-install-apache2-module

If you have all of the required components, passenger will compile and you’ll end up with an apache2 module. It tells us to update our apache configuration with these lines… don’t do it yet:

LoadModule passenger_module /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/passenger-3.0.0
PassengerRuby /usr/bin/ruby

As you may have discovered, WHM really does want to manage all of your apache configuration files for you, and thus if you start messing with them directly they will likely get overwritten the next time you update your server (i.e. with Apache EasyUpdate).

The correct way to add changes to your apache configuration is to add it to /usr/local/apache/conf/includes/pre_virtualhost_global.conf. It might not exist. (Mine had just a few lines we had put in there for PCI compliance, such as “ServerSignature Off”).

Once you have added those three lines to your pre_virtualhost_global.conf file, it’s time to restart apache.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Magically, apache restarted without any errors. If you run into any trouble, go back and comment out the lines in your conf file above and try to restart the service again. If you need help looking at logs, restarting services, etc, check out the WHM docs.

Finally, passenger tells us this:

Deploying a Ruby on Rails application: an example


ServerName www.yourhost.com
DocumentRoot /somewhere/public # <-- be sure to point to 'public'!

AllowOverride all # <-- relax Apache security settings
Options -MultiViews # <-- MultiViews must be turned off




So, how do you add custom directives to your accounts in WHM? Check out the documentation on custom VirtualHost directives.

More information:

• http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html
• http://ashleyangell.com/2010/02/how-to-install-phusion-passenger-on-a-centoscpanel-box/
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