Eugene Kenny @eugeneius Developer toolbox Six development tools that will give you fabulous secret powers 

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Technology on Adverts.ie • Graphite for stats and graphs • Varnish for load balancing, Pound for SSL • Composer for PHP dependencies 

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What am I going to talk about? Overview of 6 tools (Boris, HTTPie, jq, terminator, MailCatcher and boom) Assumption: you work on either Linux or OS X, use the command line 

Tool #1: Boris git clone git://github.com/d11wtq/boris.git boris/bin/boris Setup: 

JavaScript console is a REPL 

REPL: a big loop 

php -a vs Boris > php -a php > $arr = ["Hello", "World"]; php > var_dump($arr); array(2) { [0]=> string(5) => "Hello" [1]=> string(5) => "World" } php > $arr[1] = "PHP" php > var_dump($arr); array(2) { [0]=> string(5) "Hello" [1]=> string(3) => "PHP" } 

php -a vs Boris > boris/bin/boris boris> $arr = ["Hello", "World"]; array(2) { [0]=> string(5) "Hello" [1]=> string(5) "World" } boris> $arr[1] = "Boris"; array(2) { [0]=> string(5) "Hello" [1]=> string(5) "Boris" } 

Loading your environment > boris -r bootstrap.php boris> $user = new User(); !object(User)#8 (1) { ["username"]=> NULL } boris> $user->username = "eugeneius" !string(9) "eugeneius" boris> $user !object(User)#8 (1) { ["username"]=> string(9) "eugeneius" } 

Other nice features: • Remembers your command history • Will load .borisrc file in your home directory, which can contain arbitrary PHP code to run at startup • You can implement a custom Inspector, to control how values are printed 

Tool #2: HTTPie sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install httpie Setup: 

curl -X POST http://example.com \ -d arg=val -d foo=bar \ -H X-Api-Key:a0b0c0 \ -H X-Custom-Header:whatever http POST http://example.com \ arg=val foo=bar \ X-Api-Key:a0b0c0 \ X-Custom-Header:whatever HTTPie vs cURL 

curl -X POST http://example.com -F arg=val -F [email protected] http POST http://example.com arg=val [email protected] Uploading files http PUT http://example.com < lolcat.jpg curl -X PUT http://example.com -T [email protected] 

> curl http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/wheningit.tumblr.com/posts? api_key=fuiKNFp9vQFvjLNvx4sUwti4Yb5yGutBN4Xh10LXZhhRKjWlV4 {"meta":{"status":200,"msg":"OK"},"response":{"blog": {"title":"When in git","name":"wheningit","posts": 49,"url":"http:\/\/wheningit.tumblr.com\/","updated": 1364229309,"description":"Remember that time using git when... Brought to you by @kylerush and @creighfishtaco.","ask":false,"ask_anon":false,"is_nsfw":false," share_likes":true,"likes":0},"posts": [{"blog_name":"wheningit","id":46258279610,"post_url":"http:\/\/ wheningit.tumblr.com\/post\/46258279610\/when-i-discovered-what- the-porcelain-flag-did-on-git","slug":"when-i-discovered-what- the-porcelain-flag-did-on-git","type":"text","date":"2013-03-25 16:35:09 GMT","timestamp": 1364229309,"state":"published","format":"html","reblog_key":"goC oFPdn","tags":[],"short_url":"http:\/\/tmblr.co\/ Zt8S7vh5DLIw","highlighted":[],"note_count":10,"title":"When I Fetching JSON with cURL 

Fetching JSON with HTTPie > http http://api.tumblr.com/v2/blog/wheningit.tumblr.com/posts? api_key=fuiKNFp9vQFvjLNvx4sUwti4Yb5yGutBN4Xh10LXZhhRKjWlV4 { "meta": { "status": 200, "msg": "OK" }, "response": { "blog": { "title": "When in git", "name": "wheningit", "posts": 49, "url": "http://wheningit.tumblr.com", "updated": 1364229309, "description": "Remember that time using git when... Brought to you by @kylerush and @creighfishtaco.", "ask": false, 

Tool #3: jq curl -O http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/linux64/jq chmod +x jq sudo mv jq /usr/local/bin Setup: 

Tool #3: jq curl -O http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/linux64/jq http --download http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/linux64/jq chmod +x jq sudo mv jq /usr/local/bin Setup: 

Tool #3: jq curl -O http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/linux64/jq http --download http://stedolan.github.io/jq/download/linux64/jq chmod +x jq sudo mv jq /usr/local/bin Setup: 

jq parses JSON > echo '{"key":"value"}' | jq '.key' "value" > echo '["one", "two", "three"]' | jq '.[]' "one" "two" "three" > echo '[1, 2, 3]' | jq 'add' 6 > echo '{"apples": 10, "pears": 13}' | jq '[.[]] | add' 23 

Pipe output from HTTPie > http https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius/repos [ { "id": 3127875, "name": "boom", "full_name": "eugeneius/boom", "owner": { "login": "eugeneius", "id" 432189, "url": "https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius", "html_url": "https://github.com/users/eugeneius", ... }, private: false, html_url: "https://github.com/eugeneius/boom", url: "https://api.github.com/eugeneius/boom", ... } ... ] 

Pipe output from HTTPie > http https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius/repos \ | jq '.[].html_url' "https://github.com/eugeneius/boom" "https://github.com/eugeneius/jquery-onetime" "https://github.com/eugeneius/PHP-Xero" "https://github.com/eugeneius/URLShortener" 

Pipe output from HTTPie > http https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius/repos \ | jq '.[].html_url' "https://github.com/eugeneius/boom" "https://github.com/eugeneius/jquery-onetime" "https://github.com/eugeneius/PHP-Xero" "https://github.com/eugeneius/URLShortener" > http https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius/repos \ | jq '.[].html_url' | xargs -l xdg-open 

Pipe output from HTTPie > http https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius/repos \ | jq '.[].html_url' "https://github.com/eugeneius/boom" "https://github.com/eugeneius/jquery-onetime" "https://github.com/eugeneius/PHP-Xero" "https://github.com/eugeneius/URLShortener" > http https://api.github.com/users/eugeneius/repos \ | jq '.[].html_url' | xargs -l xdg-open 

Tool #4: Terminator sudo apt-get install terminator Setup: 

Multiple terminals 

Saved layouts [layouts] [[production]] [[[window1]]] type = Window size = 1920, 1028 [[[split1]]] type = HPaned position = 960 parent = window1 [[[terminal1]]] type = Terminal parent = split1 command = ssh www1 [[[terminal2]]] type = Terminal parent = split1 command = ssh www2 ... 

`terminator -l production` 

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Tool #5: MailCatcher sudo apt-get install ruby sudo apt-get install libsqlite3-dev sudo gem install mailcatcher mailcatcher Setup: 

SMTP How MailCatcher works sendmail Internet ! Internet ! catchmail SMTP:1025 

> boris/bin/boris boris> $to = "[email protected]"; !string(15) "[email protected]" boris> $subject = "MailCatcher test"; !string(16) "MailCatcher test" boris> $message = "This message should go to MailCatcher"; !string(37) "This message should go to MailCatcher" boris> $headers = "From: [email protected]"; !string(23) "From: [email protected]" boris> mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); !bool(true) Send a test mail with boris 

MailCatcher - view message 

MailCatcher - view source 

Tool #6: Boom sudo apt-get install ruby sudo gem install boom sudo apt-get install xclip Setup: 

> boom urls Boom! Created a new list called urls. > boom urls github https://github.com Boom! github in urls is https://github.com. Got it. > boom urls adverts http://www.adverts.ie Boom! adverts in urls is http://www.adverts.ie. Got it. > boom adverts Boom! We just copied http://www.adverts.ie to your clipboard. Boom is a key-value store 

{ "lists": [ "urls": [ {"github": "https://github.com"}, {"adverts": "http://www.adverts.ie"}, ... ], "gifs": [ {"homerthink":"http://i.imgur.com/25J7e.gif"}, {"slothshades":"http://i.imgur.com/IHcRs.gif"}, ... ] } Data is stored in ~/.boom 

> boom temp clipboard "http://bit.ly/errhcw" Boom! clipboard in temp is http://bit.ly/errhcw. Got it. Dropbox for copy and paste On computer 1: > boom clipboard Boom! We just copied http://bit.ly/errhcw to your clipboard. On computer 2: Dropbox syncs ~/.boom 

> boom cmds gitlocalmerged Boom! We just copied git branch --merged master | grep -v 'master' | sed 's/ *//;' | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/^/git branch -d /' | sh to your clipboard. > git branch --merged [...] Deleted branch move_newsletter_scripts (was 81b0f8d) Deleted branch initialise_arrays (was 23945fe) ... Store common commands > boom echo gitlocalmerged | sh Deleted branch move_newsletter_scripts (was 81b0f8d) Deleted branch initialise_arrays (was 23945fe) ... Or: 

> boom cmds gitlocalmerged Boom! We just copied git branch --merged master | grep -v 'master' | sed 's/ *//;' | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's/^/git branch -d /' | sh to your clipboard. > git branch --merged [...] Deleted branch move_newsletter_scripts (was 81b0f8d) Deleted branch initialise_arrays (was 23945fe) ... Store common commands > boom echo gitlocalmerged | sh Deleted branch move_newsletter_scripts (was 81b0f8d) Deleted branch initialise_arrays (was 23945fe) ... Or: 

> boom open gifs slothshades Boom! We just opened http://i.imgur.com/IHcRs.gif for you. Open a value in a browser 

> boom open gifs slothshades Boom! We just opened http://i.imgur.com/IHcRs.gif for you. Open a value in a browser 

> boom random gifs Boom! We just opened http://i.imgur.com/8QmIp.gif for you. Open a random value 

> boom random gifs Boom! We just opened http://i.imgur.com/8QmIp.gif for you. Open a random value 

Can we put them all together? 

Can we put them all together? No. I'm not MacGyver. 

Can we put them all together? No. I'm not MacGyver. But separately, these tools can each make you more productive. 

Can we put them all together? No. I'm not MacGyver. But separately, these tools can each make you more productive. Together, they can make you a LOT more productive. 

Questions? Even better: any tools I missed?