Quick Reference

Scholar@UC

Run entire test suite on Curate Gem

1. cd curate_fork
2. bundle exec rake jetty:start
3. bundle exec rake spec or if the test app doesn't exist yet bundle exec rake clean generate spec
4. bundle exec rake spec

Run some tests on Curate Gem

1. cd curate_fork
2. bundle exec rake jetty:start
3. BUNDLE_GEMFILE=./spec/internal/Gemfile bundle exec rspec path/to/spec.rb:LINE

Run entire test suite on Scholar application

1. cd scholar_uc
2. bundle exec rake jetty:start
3. bundle exec rake spec

Run some tests on Scholar application

1. cd scholar_uc
2. bundle exec rake jetty:start
3. rspec path/to/spec.rb:LINE

Delete a user

• See https://github.com/uclibs/scholar_uc/wiki/Deleting-user-accounts

Manually remove the default admin set from database/Fedora

1. AdminSet.find('admin_set/default').delete
2. ActiveFedora::Base.eradicate('admin_set/default')

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Hydra

solr

• Reindex: bundle exec rake solr:reindex (background workers need to be running)
• Reindex via the Rails console: ActiveFedora::Base.reindex_everything
• Remove a single item from the solr index: ActiveFedora::SolrService.delete(id)

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Ruby on Rails

Rails Console

• Find a user: User.find_by_email('user@exmaple.com')
• Find a user by a column: User.where(email: 'user@example.com')
• Display certain fields: User.select('first_name,last_name,email').all
• Display results in yaml format: y User.all
• Mass update a column for multiple users: User.update_all(department: 'IT')
• Grep methods for a class: User.methods.grep(/email/)
• Change a user's password from console
  1. u=User.where(:email => 'usermail@example.com').first
  2. u.password='userpassword'
  3. u.password_confirmation='userpassword'
  4. u.save

Gems

• Install a gem: gem install <gem name>
• List installed versions of a gem: gem list <gem name>
• Delete a version of an installed gem: gem uninstall <gem name>

Comment out an entire block of code

• Put =begin above first line and =end below last line.

Wipe the rails database

• bundle exec rake db:reset

Debugging with byebug

• Add the byebug gem to your app: gem 'byebug'
• Add byebug to spot you want a breakpoint in your code
• Start rails server and watch the logging output
• Byebug commands:
  • help OR help
  • n - next line
  • c - continue
  • eval - change data
  • finish
  • step - run one executable unit
  • q - quit
  • p OR display - display value of a variable
  • break <step #> - adds a breakpoint at <step #>

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SCP

Getting your files from/to the servers

1. If you've done this before you'll need to clear host fingerprint for 127.0.0.1 at: ~/.ssh/known_hosts
2. First, on your local machine, run: ssh -L 1234:SERVER_NAME:22 USERNAME@SECRET_SERVER_GATEWAY (1234 could be any other unused port; SERVER_NAME is the target server; 22 is the standard port for ssh)
3. In a new session on your local machine, run: scp -P 1234 USERNAME@127.0.0.1:/path/to/file /path/to/file

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Travis-CI Debug Build

• See: https://github.com/uclibs/scholar_uc/wiki/Travis-CI-Debug-Build

Miscellaneous

Sync a copy of your local development files to Larry

• rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /path/to/files username@larry.libraries.uc.edu:~/path/to/files