def spreadsheet_report(excel_filename, worksheet_name, 
                       column_order, result)
    book = Spreadsheet::Workbook.new
    sheet1 = book.create_worksheet :name => worksheet_name
 
    rownum = 0
    for column in column_order
      sheet1.row(rownum).push column
    end
    for row in result
      rownum += 1
      for column in column_order
        sheet1.row(rownum).push row[column].nil? ? 'N/A' : row[column]
      end
    end
    book.write "#{excel_filename}.xls"
 
end

Here’s what the code would like in your rake task

column_order = ["Name", "DOB", "Rank","Hire Date", 
                "Height", "Weight" ]
 
sql =<<-END
  SELECT name AS Name,
   date_of_birth AS DOB, 
   rank AS Rank,
   hire_date Hire Date,
   height AS Height,
   weight AS  Weight
  FROM fire_fighters
  ORDER BY name
END
 
conn  = ActiveRecord::Base.connection
result    = conn.select_all(sql)
 
excel_filename = "FireFighterReport#{Time.year}" 
worksheet_name = "FireFighter Report #{Time.year}"
spreadsheet_report(excel_filename, worksheet_name, 
                   column_order, result)

Now, that’s easy!

Ruby Spreadsheet Gem Documentation

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mkdir project1.git
cd project1.git
git --bare init

Here’s a script to do them all in one shot, just modifiy the REPOS variable:

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#!/bin/sh
 
REPOS="project1 project2 project3 project4"
 
for repo in $REPOS
do
    repo_dir="$repo.git"
    mkdir -p $repo_dir
    echo "Creating git directory  $repo_dir"
    cd $repo_dir
    git --bare init
    cd ..
done
exit

Now, on the workstation:

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sudo apt-get install git-core git-svn
sudo gem install nirvdrum-svn2git --source http://gems.github.com

Create the authors.txt in the following format:

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dburger = David Burger <email@email.com>
jdoe = John Doe <jdoe@doe.com>

For one project, do the following:

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mkdir project1
cd project1
svn2git  https://svn.myserver.org/repos/ses --authors ../authors.txt
git remote add origin hailstorm.myserver.org:/home/kenglish/repotest/ses.git
git push --all

The script:

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#!/bin/sh
 
REPOS="project1 project2 project3 project4"
 
for repo in $REPOS
do
    mkdir $repo
    cd $repo
 
    cmd="svn2git https://svn.myserver.org/repos/$repo --authors ../authors.txt"
    echo $cmd
    `$cmd`
    cmd="git remote add origin hailstorm.myserver.org:/home/kenglish/repotest/$repo.git"
    echo $cmd
    `$cmd`
    cmd="git push --all"
    echo $cmd
    `$cmd`
    cd ..
    echo "DONE EXPORTING $repo" 
done
exit

Don’t diss the shell script, I leave in the echoes in case i need to test stuff out…

Note: Another option for the authors file is place it in your home directory .svn2git/authors (e.g. /home/kenglish/.svn2git/authors). Svn2git will automatically detect it and use it.
Any questions? Comments?

sudo vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Add:

extensions = mysql.so

Make sure to restart apache:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

i usually set it to 18000…

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 18000; // validity of cookie login
// (in seconds)

I usually set this and forget it but it always takes me like 4-5 minutes to FTFSC and find where to set it again..

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Written by David Burger

if [ $# -eq 2 ]; then
user=$1
dbname=$2
basecmd=”mysql -u ${user} -D ${dbname}”
elif [ $# -eq 3 ]; then
user=$1
PASS=$2
dbname=$3
basecmd=”mysql -u ${user} -p$PASS -D ${dbname}”
else
echo “usage: mysqltrunc user [pass] database” >&2
exit 1
fi

tables=$(${basecmd} -e “SHOW TABLES;” | grep -v “+–” | grep -v “Tables_in_${dbname}”)
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo “Unable to retrieve the table names.” >&2
exit 1
fi

cmd=”"

for table in ${tables}; do
cmd=”${cmd} TRUNCATE ${table};”
done

$(${basecmd} -e “${cmd}”)

Creates all the tables with the data but don't add the “drop database” statements. Good for if you are going to get a dump so you can restart a replication that's died:

mysqldump -umyuser -pmypasswrd -h localhost –add-drop-table –no-create-db –quick –databases –extended-insert db1 db2 db3

Sometimes, you many want to do this in 2 stages

Dump structure only:
mysqldump -umyuser -pmypasswrd -h localhost –add-drop-table –no-data –no-create-db

Dump data:
mysqldump -umyuser -pmypasswrd -h localhost –quick –extended-insert –no-create-db –no-create-info

mysqldump -usps -p sps_development –quick –extended-insert –no-create-db –no-create-info