Safety nets

I’ve had a few close calls when switching between the Dev/Staging/Prod environments. These will save you from any nasty suprises!

iTerm Colour

Change the colour of the terminal window when you ssh into your staging or production environments. I use a simple bash script that switches when I ssh into certain hosts.

Banner/Ribbon on Staging/Development

I just used a fork of the Github ribbon

Show App Name and Environment when in console

We used this handy gem Marco-Polo

That looks like this in the console:

~/Sites/myapp$ rails c
myapp(dev)>