Month: January 2012

Connect to Database – PostGreSQL

This is just a quick post on how to connect to particular database via the console in PostGreSQL. First, make sure you’ve logged in – just swap my_app for your role name:

chris@chris-VirtualBox:~/site$ psql postgres my_app

Password for user site: 
psql (8.4.10)
Type "help" for help.

Finally, all you have to do to connect is the following:

postgres=> c my_app_development

psql (8.4.10)
You are now connected to database "my_app_development".
my_app =>

If you’re having trouble working out what database name you’re trying to connect to you can view a list of all the current database with the following command:

my_app => l

 List of databases
       Name       |  Owner   | Encoding |  Collation  |    Ctype    |   Access privileges   
------------------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
 postgres         | postgres | UTF8     | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | 
 my_app_development | site     | UTF8     | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | 
 my_app_production  | site     | UTF8     | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | 
 my_app_test        | site     | UTF8     | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 | 
 template0        | postgres | UTF8     | en_AU.UTF-8 | en_AU.UTF-8 |

my_app => q -- q to exit database list

Stop an Application – Heroku

Just a quick post on how to stop an app on Heroku:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# heroku maintenance:on
Maintenance mode enabled.

This will display a static page to all visitors but still allows for migrations etc:

Heroku - Application Offline for Maintenance
Heroku - Application Offline for Maintenance

To re-enable the app simply use the following:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# heroku maintenance:off
Maintenance mode disabled.

Heroku Upload – Permission Denied

I ran into a bit of trouble uploading an app to heroku for the first time, I was unable to authenticate.

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# git push heroku master
Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

This turned out to be an issue with my public key, in order to fix it simply create a new one:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# ssh-keygen -t rsa
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/root/.ssh/id_rsa): 
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
...

Re-upload it:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# heroku keys:add /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Uploading ssh public key /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

And finally re-push everything:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# git push heroku master
Enter passphrase for key '/root/.ssh/id_rsa': 
Counting objects: 579, done.
Compressing objects: 100% (513/513), done.
Writing objects: 100% (579/579), 6.09 MiB | 83 KiB/s, done.
Total 579 (delta 101), reused 0 (delta 0)

-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Ruby/Rails app detected

This Heroku page actually provides quite a bit of info if you’re still having problems: http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails3

PostgreSQL Installation Error – Ruby

I ran into a bit of problem moving an app to a test Heroku host – I needed to install PostgreSQL. I added the following to my Gemfile:

#Gemfile
#gem 'sqlite3'
gem 'pg'

I then tried to run bundle install:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# bundle install

However I received the following error:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# bundle install


Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org/
Using rake (0.9.2) 
Using multi_json (1.0.3) 
Using activesupport (3.1.1) 
Using builder (3.0.0) 
Using i18n (0.6.0) 
Using activemodel (3.1.1) 
Using erubis (2.7.0) 
Using rack (1.3.4) 
Using rack-cache (1.1) 
Using rack-mount (0.8.3) 
Using rack-test (0.6.1) 
Using hike (1.2.1) 
Using tilt (1.3.3) 
Using sprockets (2.0.2) 
Using actionpack (3.1.1) 
Using mime-types (1.16) 
Using polyglot (0.3.2) 
Using treetop (1.4.10) 
Using mail (2.3.0) 
Using actionmailer (3.1.1) 
Using arel (2.2.1) 
Using tzinfo (0.3.30) 
Using activerecord (3.1.1) 
Using activeresource (3.1.1) 
Using bundler (1.0.21) 
Using rack-ssl (1.3.2) 
Using json (1.6.1) 
Using rdoc (3.10) 
Using thor (0.14.6) 
Using railties (3.1.1) 
Using rails (3.1.1) 
Using acts-as-taggable-on (2.1.1) 
Using awesome_nested_set (2.0.2) 
Using bcrypt-ruby (3.0.1) 
Using carrierwave (0.5.7) 
Using cocaine (0.2.0) 
Using coffee-script-source (1.1.2) 
Using execjs (1.2.9) 
Using coffee-script (2.2.0) 
Using coffee-rails (3.1.1) 
Using orm_adapter (0.0.5) 
Using warden (1.0.6) 
Using devise (1.4.8) 
Using escape (0.0.4) 
Using geocoder (1.0.5) from git://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder.git (at no_grouping) 
Using jquery-rails (1.0.16) 
Using libv8 (3.3.10.2) 
Using nokogiri (1.5.0) 
Using paperclip (2.4.5) 
Installing pg (0.12.2) with native extensions 
Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        /usr/bin/ruby1.8 extconf.rb 
checking for pg_config... no
No pg_config... trying anyway. If building fails, please try again with
 --with-pg-config=/path/to/pg_config
checking for libpq-fe.h... no
Can't find the 'libpq-fe.h header
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

Provided configuration options:
	--with-opt-dir
	--without-opt-dir
	--with-opt-include
	--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
	--with-opt-lib
	--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
	--with-make-prog
	--without-make-prog
	--srcdir=.
	--curdir
	--ruby=/usr/bin/ruby1.8
	--with-pg
	--without-pg
	--with-pg-dir
	--without-pg-dir
	--with-pg-include
	--without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include
	--with-pg-lib
	--without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/lib
	--with-pg-config
	--without-pg-config
	--with-pg_config
	--without-pg_config


Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.12.2 for inspection.
Results logged to /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/pg-0.12.2/ext/gem_make.out
An error occured while installing pg (0.12.2), and Bundler cannot continue.
Make sure that `gem install pg -v '0.12.2'` succeeds before bundling.

It turned out that because I was on Ubuntu I needed to install the libpq-dev package:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# apt-get install libpq-dev


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.38-8 linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  comerr-dev krb5-multidev libgssapi-krb5-2 libgssrpc4 libk5crypto3
  libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7 libkdb5-4 libkrb5-3 libkrb5-dev
  libkrb5support0 libpq5 libssl-dev
Suggested packages:
  krb5-doc krb5-user postgresql-doc-8.4
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  comerr-dev krb5-multidev libgssrpc4 libkadm5clnt-mit7 libkadm5srv-mit7
  libkdb5-4 libkrb5-dev libpq-dev libpq5 libssl-dev
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root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site#

And then just run bundle install again:

root@chris-VirtualBox:~/site# bundle install

There’s some documentation on the gems wiki page: https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/wiki/Home

Unable to edit files uploaded to document library where url length is more than 260 characters – SharePoint

Just a quick problem I came across in SharePoint today when trying to edit a file:

Unable to edit files uploaded to document library where url length is more than 260 characters

The folder structure being used was fairly complex, unfortunately this meant that a filename only had to be a few characters long to exceed this rule. Unfortunately there does not appear to be an easy way to fix this issue other than reorganizing the folder structure.

One workaround is to simply press the “Open with Explorer” button and edit the file that way. Thankfully the url limitation does not effect files reached through this method.

Open with Explorer - SharePoint
Open with Explorer - SharePoint

This link has a bit more info for anyone who may be interested.