How to Make Your Rails App Roar With OS X Lion

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1. Patrick Crowley @mokolabs

2. How to Make Your Rails App Roar With OS X

   Lion +

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13. But there’s one problem...

14. Stencils must be approved and published manually... by me :(

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17. What’s the workflow?

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19. 1. Get email notification

20. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop)

21. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia

22. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle

23. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil

24. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot

25. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop

26. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot

27. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG

28. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG 10. Open stencil dashboard on Graffletopia

29. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG 10. Open stencil dashboard on Graffletopia 11. Upload PNG to Graffletopia

30. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG 10. Open stencil dashboard on Graffletopia 11. Upload PNG to Graffletopia 12. Double-check preview

31. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG 10. Open stencil dashboard on Graffletopia 11. Upload PNG to Graffletopia 12. Double-check preview 13. Make stencil visible to all users

32. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG 10. Open stencil dashboard on Graffletopia 11. Upload PNG to Graffletopia 12. Double-check preview 13. Make stencil visible to all users 14. Tweet about stencil

33. 1. Get email notification 2. Open OS X machine (laptop

    or desktop) 3. Download stencil from Graffletopia 4. Open stencil in OmniGraffle 5. Edit the stencil 6. Take a screenshot 7. Open screenshot in Photoshop 8. Crop screenshot 9. Save as PNG 10. Open stencil dashboard on Graffletopia 11. Upload PNG to Graffletopia 12. Double-check preview 13. Make stencil visible to all users 14. Tweet about stencil 15. Profit?!?

34. Busy work, right?

35. So what if we can automate stencil preview generation?

36. But, wait a second...

37. If we automate this, we’ll need to host it on

    OSX Lion.

38. #FAIL

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40. • Doesn't work well with Linux

41. • Doesn't work well with Linux • Can't be virtualized

    easily

42. • Doesn't work well with Linux • Can't be virtualized

    easily • Manual configuration

43. • Doesn't work well with Linux • Can't be virtualized

    easily • Manual configuration • Price

44. Let’s talk about price

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46. • Bring Your Own Mac mini

47. • Bring Your Own Mac mini • Bring Your Own

    XServe

48. • Bring Your Own Mac mini • Bring Your Own

    XServe • Dedicated XServe

49. • Bring Your Own Mac mini • Bring Your Own

    XServe • Dedicated XServe • EXPENSIVE!

50. Bring Your Own Mac mini

51. Host Setup Monthly macminicolo $60 - $75 macminivault $30 -

    $50 macminiworld $30 - $120 macconnect $35 - $55 hostmyapple $30 - $80

52. Bring Your Own XServe

53. Host Setup Monthly macserve $150 - $500

54. XServe Hosting

55. Host Setup Monthly xcloud.me Free XServe $150 - $500

56. So what do we do?

57. But wait! There’s another option!

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60. Plan Features Monthly Basic 1TB bandwidth, 2.3 i5, 4GB, 500GB

    at 5400 rpm $25 Pro 2TB bandwidth, 2.0 i7, 8GB, Dual 500GB at 7200 rpm $35 Elite Pro plus unlimited bandwidth $50

61. So how would this work?

62. Primary App

63. Primary App Linux

64. Primary App Secondary App Linux

65. Primary App Secondary App Linux OS X

66. Primary App Secondary App Linux OS X REST

67. Primary App Secondary App Linux OS X REST

68. So how can you do this yourself?

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72. Configure your mini

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74. • Tweak user/system settings

75. • Tweak user/system settings • Ruby and friends (homebrew, rvm,

    rbenv, etc)

76. • Tweak user/system settings • Ruby and friends (homebrew, rvm,

    rbenv, etc) • Databases (MySQL, Postgres)

77. • Tweak user/system settings • Ruby and friends (homebrew, rvm,

    rbenv, etc) • Databases (MySQL, Postgres) • Redis or Delayed Job

78. • Tweak user/system settings • Ruby and friends (homebrew, rvm,

    rbenv, etc) • Databases (MySQL, Postgres) • Redis or Delayed Job • God or Monit

79. • Tweak user/system settings • Ruby and friends (homebrew, rvm,

    rbenv, etc) • Databases (MySQL, Postgres) • Redis or Delayed Job • God or Monit

80. Working with OSX

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82. • Ruby

83. • Ruby • Shell commands

84. • Ruby • Shell commands • AppleScript

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86. • RubyOSA

87. • RubyOSA • Ruby appscript (rb-appscript)

88. • RubyOSA • Ruby appscript (rb-appscript) • macruby-appscript

89. • RubyOSA • Ruby appscript (rb-appscript) • macruby-appscript • osascript

    command line tool

90. Let’s see it in action.

91. DEMO

92. One more thing...

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94. Caveats

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96. • Scaling not included

97. • Scaling not included • This isn’t OSX Server

98. • Scaling not included • This isn’t OSX Server •

    Don’t do this unless you have a good use case

99. Summary

100. Achievement Unlocked!

101. Questions?

102. The End