Using Rake Tasks for Mac OSX
Here are a few of my favorite commands for Mac OS X, Ruby on Rails and AWS Lambda development.
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AWS: Using Rake Tasks to SSH into EC2
I work a lot with EC2 and one thing I always have to Google is how to SSH into an AMI, Ubuntu, Fedora, or CentOS instance. Part of...
Where to place your files on Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Raspberry Pi
As a regular EC2 user, commands such as ssh, scp, tar, zip, chmod and chown are like BFF's. The only thing I can't remember...
Shell variables vs. Environment variables
I've been doing a lot of work within the AWS Command Line [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/iam/index.html] and it'...
Charging SaaS customers using AWS API Gateway
Keys are used to provide access to specific locks. Before we can talk about keys, let's make sure we know how to create a lock using...
AWS: Lambda Security Basics
I love AWS Lambda because I can run my code on Amazon's servers without having to manage servers, operating systems, scaling, provisioning, or even deployment. HOW...
AWS: Lambda development on OS X
Through AWS Lambda [https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/], AWS is completely changing the entire web industry, again. If you're not familiar with Lambda, it's...
Awesome OS X Command Lines
Thank you @herrbischoff [https://twitter.com/herrbischoff] for creating this A curated list of shell commands and tools specific to OS X [https://github.com/herrbischoff/awesome-osx-command-line] and...
AWS: Install AWS Command Line CLI on Mac OSX
The AWS command line client allows you to create, modify and manage your Amazon Web Services from your local terminal. If you're on a Mac and...
Installing Weka on OS X
Weka [http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/downloading.html] is a data-mining tool that can help you build out decision trees using Java. I will write...
Recursively Remove .DS_Store
This happens to me all the time. I forget to add a .gitignore to my git repo and then I start creating a bunch of folders for my...
Rails: Troubleshooting Strategies
There are about a dozen or so reasons why your Rails app might fail to load locally or on a host like Heroku. Below are a few common...
Manage MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL using Homebrew Services
Homebrew [http://brew.sh/] is excellent for downloading and installing packages but even better for managing local databases for development. The interface is known as Homebrew Services. If...
AWS: Working with CodeCommit
Elastic Beanstalk is a one-stop shop for Ruby on Rails developers to publish their apps. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to first commit your...
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