Month: June 2011

by webjunkie on Android, Mobile, uWSGI

Android SDK and Local Testing

It’s been awhile since I installed the Android SDK, today I’m starting a new android app so I updated to the latest version. To my surprise the tools have moved to different folders so just as I was ready to start testing locally I couldn’t find adb (adroid debugger bridge) in the tools folder, turns out it’s now located in the plataform-tools folder.
Here are the steps I’m using:
First you have to create an Android Virtual Device. Star the Android SDK Manager

android:~$ cd tools
tools:~$ ./android

Download the Android API you need or download them all
download android api
Create your Android Virtual Device
create android virtual device
Now you could start you virtual device from the SDK Manager but I prefer to do it from the shell since I’m able to add command options like

  • -wipe-data (To erase data stored from previous sessions)
  • -shell (So I can edit the /etc/hosts file later)
  • -no-boot-anim (It helps the emulator to boot up faster)
  • -noskin (It minimizes memory consumption) 
  tools:~$ ./emulator -avd test -wipe-data -shell -no-boot-anim -noskin

Open a new shell tab and go to the platform-tools folder and remount the image with the Android Debugger Bridge. This is to get rid of the file write permissions issue.

$ cd platform-tools
platform-tools:~$./adb remount

Now go back to the tab where we started out emulator and edit the hosts file to point to a local domain. It’s important to mention that the /etc/hosts file in the emulator is different from then system /etc/hosts. Replace example.com to your desired local domain

tools:~$ echo '10.0.2.2 example.com' >> /etc/hosts

And that’s it. Now you can browse example.com locally. Hope it helps someone.

 
by webjunkie on Debian, Paste, Pylons, uWSGI

Paste Server init script in Debian

This past few months I’ve set up a few beta projects on a single Debian server, and now it has become a tedious task typing the command to start|restart|stop paste for each project everytime I push new code. So I decide it to create a init script to simplify things.
For this I’ve my virtual environment installed inside the project folder. Make sure to replace virtual-env whit the name of your virtual environment folder and ProjectName with the name of your project folder. Here’s how it looks:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          paster
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     $all
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: starts the paster server
# Description:       starts paster
### END INIT INFO
PROJECT=/var/www/ProjectName
PID_DIR=/opt/nginx/logs/ProjectName/
PID_FILE=/opt/nginx/logs/ProjectName/paster.pid
LOG_FILE=/opt/nginx/logs/ProjectName/paster.log
USER=root
GROUP=root
PROD_FILE=/var/www/ProjectName/production.ini
RET_VAL=0
cd $PROJECT
case "$1" in
start)
virtual-env/bin/paster  serve \
--daemon \
--pid-file=$PID_FILE \
--log-file=$LOG_FILE \
--user=$USER \
--group=$GROUP \
$PROD_FILE \
start
;;
stop)
virtual-env/bin/paster  serve \
--daemon \
--pid-file=$PID_FILE \
--log-file=$LOG_FILE \
--user=$USER \
--group=$GROUP \
$PROD_FILE \
stop
;;
restart)
virtual-env/bin/paster  serve \
--daemon \
--pid-file=$PID_FILE \
--log-file=$LOG_FILE \
--user=$USER \
--group=$GROUP \
$PROD_FILE \
restart
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac

So now I can save this file as projectname-paster and move it to /etc/init.d/ and start it with:

sudo /etc/init.d/projectname-paster start | restart | stop