HOWTO : SVN over HTTPS

Create the repository

$ svnadmin create /home/svn/repo/svn

Install RPM mod_dav_svn

$ yum install mod_dav_svn

Config who can access the repository and their permissions (r or w) /home/svn/conf/users-access-file

[/]
gulden = rw
other = r
[/privaterepo]
*=

• "gulden" user can access the the "/" repository with read and wright (rw) permissions
• "other" can access the the "/" repository with read (r) permission
• No one can access the "/privaterepo" repository

Create the Users password file

$ htpasswd /home/svn/conf/passwd gulden

Edit Apache configuration file: /etc/httpd/conf.d/subversion.conf

LoadModule dav_svn_module     modules/mod_dav_svn.so
LoadModule authz_svn_module   modules/mod_authz_svn.so


ServerName myhost.com
ServerAlias svn.myhost.com

 Order allow,deny
 Allow from all
 DAV svn
 SVNParentPath /home/svn/repo
 # our access control policy
 AuthzSVNAccessFile /home/svn/conf/users-access-file
 # try anonymous access first, resort to real
 # authentication if necessary.
 Satisfy Any
 Require valid-user
 #  how to authenticate a user
 AuthType Basic
 AuthName "My Subversion repository"
 AuthUserFile /home/svn/conf/passwd

Checkout a project

 $ svn co https://svn.myhost.com/svn/foo/trunk

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Rails: Where to put our initialization stuff

In our applications we sometimes need to initialize global vars or rails predefined values. Whenever we want to do that, we just need to create files in the directory

config/initializers/

instead of messing with the environment.rb file.

Source: Ryan's Scraps: What's New in Edge Rails: Stop Littering In Your Environment File

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qmail-toaster + spamdyke: test behaviour

If you want to test or check the spamdyke behaviour you only need to activate the debug:

Edit /etc/spamdyke/spamdyke.conf

log-level=debug

Then run the following command

$ /usr/local/bin/spamdyke --config-file /etc/spamdyke/spamdyke.conf /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /bin/true

To send an email enter the SMTP commands:

mail from: youremail@mail.com
rcpt to: to_address@mail.com
data
subject: TEST MESSAGE
data
Put some content here...
.

You will see debug lines that shows you all the steps of spamdyke.

RubyonRails: How to Integrate Comatose CMS & FCKEditor tutorial in your rails application

Steps

Install CMS Comatose plugin

$ script/plugin install http://comatose-plugin.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/comatose
$ script/plugin install git://github.com/darthapo/comatose.git (For Rails 2.X)

$ script/generate comatose_migration
$ rake db:migrate

Dependencias

$ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/acts_as_list
$ ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/rails/acts_as_tree

Install FCKEditor Plugin

$ script/plugin install git://github.com/davividal/fckeditor.git

Install views in our project

$ rake comatose:admin:customize

Edit "app/views/comatose_admin/_form.rhtml"

replace:

<%= f.text_area :body, :rows=>20, :tabindex=>2 %>

with:

<%= fckeditor_textarea('page', 'body', :width => '100%', :height => '500px') %>

Add FCKEditor javascript file to

app/views/layouts/comatose_admin.rhtml 

<%= javascript_include_tag :fckeditor %>

Configure FCKEditor to accept other other Files Types like "PDF".

/vendor/plugins/fckeditor/app/controllers/fckeditor_controller.rb
 MIME_TYPES = [
   "image/jpg",
   "image/jpeg",
   "image/pjpeg",
   "image/gif",
   "image/png",
   "application/x-shockwave-flash"
 ]

Comatose Configurations in config/initializers/comatose.rb

Comatose.configure do |config|

 config.admin_title          = 'Administration'
 config.admin_helpers        = []
 config.admin_sub_title      = 'Administration Pages'
 config.content_type         = 'utf-8'
 config.default_filter       = ''
 config.default_processor    = :liquid
 config.default_tree_level   = 3
 config.disable_caching      = false
 config.hidden_meta_fields   = 'filter'
 config.helpers              = []
 config.includes             = []

 # These are 'blockable' settings
 config.authorization        = Proc.new { true }
 config.admin_get_author     = Proc.new { request.env['REMOTE_ADDR'] }
 config.after_setup          = Proc.new { true }


  # Includes AuthenticationSystem in the ComatoseAdminController
  #config.admin_includes << :authenticated_system

  # Calls :login_required as a before_filter
  #config.admin_authorization = :login_required

end