So, here’s how:

Edit the virtual alias file:

(sudo) vi /etc/postfix/virtual

Add your alias and the address(es) it forwards to:

ssladmin@example.com   realemail@example.com
contact@example.com    sales@gmail.com,support@gmail.com

Reload the postfix virtual table:

postmap /etc/postfix/virtual

Also make sure you have following line in /etc/postfix/main.cf file:

virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual

If you didn’t have that and you just added it, reload all of postfix:

service postfix reload

For instance, this report with some $0 projects and some $0 clients. The previous bookmarklet would only hide the clients with a total of $0, which could still leave a lot of cruft floating around:

The new bookmarklet will reduce it down to this:

Here’s the actual code:

And here’s a bookmarklet to drag to your browser bookmark bar:
Harvest Hide Uninvoiced

Note: this is very dependent on the implementation of the Harvest report, so if this breaks in the future, you should ping me on twitter to let me know.

I love the Harvest Uninvoiced Report. I actually built the same thing for myself using the Harvest API, so I could run it at will and see what client balances were.

The Harvest provided one goes a couple steps further, showing expenses and giving a link to create an invoice.

One thing, though:

We have a lot of clients and there might be a while that we don’t do something for someone. Showing all of these clients that don’t have a balance makes it hard to focus on the ones that do have a balance. This is the ‘Uninvoiced’ report, after all, which I tend to use for “who do I need to invoice?”

Digging in, we can use some javascript to find the rows that are non-invoice-able and hide them:

Here’s a bookmarklet for you:
Harvest Hide Uninvoiceable

Drag it to your bookmarks bar, go to the uninvoiced report, and click to hide.

Questions and improvements welcome, best way to get ahold of me is to follow me on Twitter.

How do you remove all of these ^M characters from vim?

:%s/^M//g

The most difficult part of this is entering the control character.  You type ^V to get that, making the actual keys you press this:

:%s/<control>V<control>M//g

Breaking it down:

• :%s – search and replace using regular expressions
• ^M – the control V – control M characters
• g – global replace, ie replace all

DELETE DeletingFromTable
 FROM DeletingFromTable INNER JOIN CriteriaTable
 ON DeletingFromTable.field_id = CriteriaTable.id
 WHERE CriteriaTable.criteria = "value";

The key is that you specify the name of the table to be deleted from as the SELECT. So, the JOIN and WHERE do the selection and limiting, while the DELETE does the deleting.

You’re not limited to just one table, though. If you have a many-to-many relationship (for instance, Magazines and Subscribers, joined by a Subscription) and you’re removing a Subscriber, you need to remove any potential records from the join model as well.

DELETE subscribers, subscriptions
 FROM subscribers INNER JOIN subscriptions
   ON subscribers.id = subscriptions.subscriber_id
 INNER JOIN magazines
   ON subscriptions.magazine_id = magazines.id
 WHERE subscribers.name='Wes';

Deleting records with a join could also be done with a LEFT JOIN and a WHERE to see if the joined table was NULL, so that you could remove records in one table that didn’t have a match (like in preparation for adding a relationship.) Example post to come.

Create an account

Go to https://www.mailjet.com and create an account.

Note: the word “Faculatative” means “optional” on the signup form.

Add your sending address

• Add a sending address (Accounts > Sender Addresses)
• Update your Rails ActionMailer configuration
  • Find the settings you need at: https://www.mailjet.com/account/setup

        SMTP server:
        in.mailjet.com
    
        Username (API Key):
        12345678901234567890
    
        Password (Secret Key):
        99999999999999999999999999999999
    
        Port:
        25 or 587 (some providers block port 25)
    
        Use TLS:
        yes
      

  • Set these settings in config/application.rb (or config/environments/production.rb):

    
        config.action_mailer.raise_delivery_errors = false
        config.action_mailer.perform_deliveries = true
    
        config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
          :address => "in.mailjet.com",
          :enable_starttls_auto => true,
          :port => 587,
          :authentication => 'plain',
          :user_name => "12345678901234567890",
          :password => "99999999999999999999999999999999"
        }
    

Setup domain authentication (SPF and/or DomainKeys/DKIM)

SPF

Click Domain DNS and SMTP setup.
Then, under Domain Authentication, click your domain.

Setting up SPF requires adding a DNS entry. Mailjet will look at your existing one and give you the one to replace it with.
It’ll look something like:
domainname.com. IN TXT "v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com mx ~all"
In my DNS manager, I created a TXT record, gave it a name of “domainname.com.” and set the value to the
'v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com mx ~all' portion (without the quotes). The full example they give you is for the DNS zone syntax, which you may or may not have.

If you need help configuring this, we would be happy to help you.

DKIM

This is similar, a TXT record that has a key that identifies your server so mail can be sent. Same deal.

Test

Deploy your changes and kick off something that sends a mailer. We have a Notifier model that has a test_email() method that I just called from the console to push a test through. I just went to the reports and saw it there.

All in all, the service seems a little rough around the edges, mostly due to it being a French company that could use a little work on the translations and some serious love on the support documentations. Hope this helps you get started with Mailjet configuration!

Run this from your project folder:

# Recursively erase all .DS_Store files in this folder and below
find . -name \.DS_Store -exec rm -v {} \;

Also, you can prevent the DS_Store files from being created. Run this from the Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

First, you have to know the SHA of the commit you want:

  git checkout branch-with-commit-on-it
  git log

Highlight and copy the SHA of the commit you want to grab.

  git checkout master

  # -n => don't commit, just merge changes so we can review and commit ourself
  git cherry-pick -n [The commit’s SHA-1 Hash]

  # review
  git diff –cached

  # commit if all is well
  git commit -a -m “merge SHA1 ..."

If you’re feeling confident, you can skip the -n and merge the single commit in directly and save a minute.

Note, this isn’t a merge, so it’s possible you could have some conflicts down the road when you merge the original commit into this branch. You’re creating a brand new commit object.

I find this happens when I start a webserver up to test something locally and then I forget about it. So, if I wanted to find out what was running on port 80:

  sudo lsof -i :80 # checks port 80

  COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE    DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
  ruby    64888   wg    6u  IPv4 0x6ddd270      0t0  TCP *:gds_db (LISTEN)

This command shows a list of open files. The -i option checks for internet addresses with the colon symbol representing a port (instead of an actual IP address). Note, I’ve only used this on Mac OS X. I’m not sure if there’s an equivalent for *nix or if it’s available in some package.

We dump the database and then import it with the new character set so we can test things out:

# Export your latin1 encoded database
mysqldump
    --user=username
    --password=password
    --default-character-set=latin1
    --compatible=mysql40 dbname
    > dump.sql

# Import database as utf8
mysql
    --user=username
    --password=password
    --default-character-set=utf8
    dbname
    < dump.sql

Note: wrapped for your reading convenience; these should all be on one line if you’re typing them at the command line.