Bartosz Blimke

Solving the problem of non-working key forwarding with Capistrano

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:24:00 -0500

After I upgraded my Mac to Snow Leopard, Capistrano deployments with key forwarding stopped working. I started getting a following error:

Permission denied (publickey).

My fellow Bambinos enlightened me that key forwarding was switched off by default in Snow Leopard. The solution was to change the following two lines in /etc/ssh_config:

#Host *
#ForwardAgent no

to the following two lines:

Host *
ForwardAgent yes

Unfortunately after this change I was still getting Permission denied (publickey) error.

Today I found the root cause. My ssh key was not added to the authentication agent so the key was not forwarded. The solution was to execute the following command:

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa

(or ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa if you use rsa key)

Now everything works fine.

How to mock Rails view helpers with RSpec

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:08:39 -0400

If you want to stub view helper method in some view spec, you can do the following:

 @controller.template.stub!(:helper_method_name).with(:some_args).and_return("some result")

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Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:12:29 -0400

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How to setup ExceptionNotifier to send email notifications using Gmail

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:44:40 -0400

How to setup ExceptionNotifier to send email notifications using Gmail

How to setup God to send email notifications using Gmail

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:43:00 -0400

Here is, how to setup God to send email notifications using a Gmail account.

Step 1:

gem install tlsmail

Step 2:

Modify the following code and add it to your God config

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require ‘tlsmail’
Net::SMTP.enable_tls(OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE)

God::Contacts::Email.message_settings = {:from => ‘my_user@gmail.com’}

God::Contacts::Email.server_settings = {
:address => “smtp.gmail.com”,
:port => 587,
:user_name => “my_user@gmail.com”,
:password => “password”,
:authentication => :plain

}

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