Geordi

Geordi is a collection of command line tools we use in our daily work with Ruby, Rails and Linux at makandra.

Installing the geordi gem will link all included tools into your /usr/bin:

sudo gem install geordi

Below you can find a list of all included tools.

apache-site

Enables the given virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-available and disables all other vhosts:

site makandra-com

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/807-shell-script-to-quickly-switch-apache-sites

b

Runs the given command under bundle exec if a Gemfile is present in your working directory. If no Gemfile is present just runs the given command:

b spec spec/models

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/684-automatically-run-bundle-exec-if-required

console-for

Opens a rails console remotely:

console-for staging

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/1338-console-for-opens-a-rails-console-remotely-on-a-capistrano-deployment-target

cuc

Runs Cucumber with the arguments you want: bundle exec, cucumber_spinner detection, separate Firefox for Selenium, etc.:

cuc features/users.feature

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/1277-a-nicer-way-to-run-rspec-and-or-cucumber

cleanup-directory

Removes unnecessary files from your project directory:

cleanup-directory

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/951-shell-script-to-clean-up-a-project-directory

deploy-to-production

Shows the commits between your master and production branch, then merges the changes and deploys to the production Capistrano stage:

deploy-to-production

More information at https://makandracards.com/makandra/7971-shell-script-to-deploy-changes-to-production-and-not-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot

dump-for

Dumps the database on your server for a given Capistrano multistage deployment target. Passing the -s option automatically sources the dump ito your development database.

dump-for production [-s]

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/1237-script-to-create-and-copy-a-production-dump-to-your-project-root

dumple

Stores a timestamped database dump for the given Rails environment in ~/dumps:

dumple development

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/1008-dump-your-database-with-dumple

load-dump

Loads a database dump (e.g. created with dump-for or dumple) into you database.

load-dump [path/to/dump]

More information at https://makandracards.com/makandra/8975-geordi-use-load-dump-script-to-source-a-database-dump-into-your-database

gitpt

Shell script to generate a git commit with Pivotal Tracker story ID and title. Run it from your project directory:

gitpt

This lets you choose from all started, finished and rejected stories in Pivotal Tracker and commit staged changes. Requires the project's Pivotal Tracker ID(s) to be defined in a .pt_project_id file in the project's directory.

More information at https://makandracards.com/makandra/1372-shell-script-to-generate-a-git-commit-with-pivotal-tracker-story-id-and-title

install-gems-remotely

Installs all gems in your Gemfile.lock, as well as vendored gems, to the given host:

install-gems-remotely my.server.com

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/692-install-a-local-gemfile-on-a-remote-server

migrate-all

Runs power-rake db:migrate if parallel_tests does not exist in your Gemfile. Otherwise it runs the migration in your development environment and executes b rake parallel:prepare after that.

migrate-all

power-deploy

Calls the Capistrano tasks deploy, deploy:migrate and deploy:restart on the given Capistrano multistage deployment target:

power-deploy staging

This script is considered legacy and will be removed eventually. You should fix your deploy scripts and then use cap deploy:migrations.

power-rake

Runs the given rake task in each Rails environment in development, test, cucumber, performance, if existing:

power-rake db:migrate

More information at http://makandracards.com/makandra/737-run-a-rake-task-in-all-environments

remove-executable-flags

Recursively removes executable flags from files in the working directory that probably shouldn't have them (like Ruby, HTML, CSS, image, Rake and similar files).