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Handy Aliases (3)

posted 2 months ago

Working on the rails day in and out now, I’ve found the following aliases to come in handy;


# General Commands
alias ls='ls -al'

# TextMate, mate all of current dir and crucial rails folders only
alias et='mate . &'
alias ett='mate app config lib db public test vendor/plugins &'

# RAILS,  (run these from your rails folder)

# rails scripts
alias ss='./script/server'
alias sc='./script/console'
alias sg='./script/generate'
alias sp='./script/plugin'
alias mr='mongrel_rails start'

# rails testing 
alias att='autotest'
alias tu='rake test:units'
alias tf='rake test:functionals'    

# tail logs
alias tl='tail -f ./log/development.log'
alias tt='tail -f ./log/test.log'      

# clean the logs
alias ctl='cp /dev/null ./log/test.log'
alias cdl='cp /dev/null ./log/development.log'

I should credit Peep Code for the idea. To use, (e.g. in OSX) place the above in a ~/.bash_aliases file and in ~/.bash_profile, load it in with this command;

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then . ~/.bash_aliases ; fi

Also, (and before I forget it myself) – here’s a quick session cleaner command to put in your cron, (for day old, mysql session clearage action); rather than build a rake task, or extra controller to clean them out.


#!/bin/bash

cd /u/apps/matthewhutchinson.net/current
echo "<== CRON TASK ==> clear day old sessions data on matthewhutchinson.net" 
ruby script/runner -e production "ActiveRecord::Base.connection.delete(\"DELETE FROM sessions WHERE updated_at < NOW() - INTERVAL 1 DAY\")"

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  1. David Rice

    2 months ago, said;

    You may like the following too :)

    1. saa = add all unknown files (?)
    2. sdm = delete all missing files (!)
    3. srr = remove all .svn directories
    

    alias saa="svn status | grep "^\?" | sed -e 's/? *//' | sed -e 's/ /\ /g' | xargs svn add" 
    alias sdm="svn status | grep "^\!" | sed -e 's/! *//' | sed -e 's/ /\ /g' | xargs svn delete" 
    alias srr="find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf"

  2. matt

    2 months ago, said;

    Thanks ! will come in handy

  3. Alina

    2 months ago, said;

    Man you don’t even know how long I’ve waited for this since disabling my own Movable Type widget (that doesn’t work since Haloscan bypasses that code).

    THANK YOU!

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