Christian Engvall

In my drupal developer environment i had a problem which made it impossible to recreate features. When clicking the recreate tab all i would see was a blank page.

First it’s hard to troubleshoot without an error message. So adding this code to index.php will display the error.

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

Now when reloading I could see the following error message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 115619 bytes) in /var/www/drupal/public/includes/common.inc on line 5849

Memory leak

This probably is happening because of a memoryleak somewhere. But since this only occurs in my dev environment and at this point a quick fix is needed, so i decided to override the maximum amount of memory that scripts can use with this line in index.php:

ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘-1’);

So the index.php now looks like this:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('memory_limit', '-1');
/**
 * @file
 * The PHP page that serves all page requests on a Drupal installation.
 *
 * The routines here dispatch control to the appropriate handler, which then
 * prints the appropriate page.
 *
 * All Drupal code is released under the GNU General Public License.
 * See COPYRIGHT.txt and LICENSE.txt.
 */

/**
 * Root directory of Drupal installation.
 */
define('DRUPAL_ROOT', getcwd());

require_once DRUPAL_ROOT . '/includes/bootstrap.inc';
drupal_bootstrap(DRUPAL_BOOTSTRAP_FULL);
menu_execute_active_handler();

I would not recommend doing this on a production server though

In a project using Git i have a folder that is added to .gitignore. But i needed to include a subfolder that is tracked by git.

What the folder structure looked like:

• Sites
• -all
• • • -files
• • • • • -private
• • • • • • • -newspilot
• -default
• • • -files
• • • • • -private
• • • • • • • -newspilot

I needed to keep files in the newspilot folder but the files folder and its subfolders was ignored like this in the .gitignore: sites/*/files

I also didn’t want the files that exists in files and private. And this was the solution:

Git ignore and exclude

sites/*/files/*
!sites/*/files/private
sites/*/files/private/*
!sites/*/files/private/newspilot

The first line ignores all files and folders in files.
The second line excludes the private folder.
The third line ignores all files and folder in private.
And finally the last line excludes the newspilot folder.

1. Download and install module

Download and install the ckeditor module. Do not enable it yet.

2. Download the standalone editor

Now we need to add the latest ckeditor files to the module. Download it and extract the contents of the zip file into the folder ckeditor in the newly installed module directory. (My module was installed in sites/all/modules/ckeditor)

3. Enable module

Now go to Administration panel -> Modules -> User Interface and enable CKEditor.

User interface

4. Permissions

Grant permission for the users that need to use the editor at people -> permissions.

Permissions

5. Create content

When creating content for the standard basic page the text area is now a ckeditor instead.

Permissions

To get seo-friendly urls in drupal 7 we need three modules.The first one we need is pathauto which takes care of the job to create the urls, but that doesn’t really get us all the way, we also need transliteration to get rid of, for example, åäö in the urls created. The last one we need is token, which is a dependency for pathatuto. This quick tutorial requires that you know how to install a drupal module.

1. Installation

 Download and install pathauto and token

2. Activate modules

Active these modules by check the boxes and push save configuration.

Activate modules

3. Update pathauto settings

Now go to Configuration -> search and metadata -> URL-aliases (/admin/config/search/path)

Url

Now click on the patterns tab in the top right corner to. This is where you can set at default url-pattern for all your content types or define a pattern for each type. The image below shows an example:

Patterns

the pattern for all Article paths is myarticles/[node:title] and the pattern for Basic page is basicpages/[node:title]. A bit further down that page you can also set the pattern for taxonomy and users. When you are happy with the patterns just hit Save Configuration.

Now if you create new content(Content-> add-content -> pagetype) your pages will have seo-friendly urls.

4. Transliteration

Transliteration helps out with chars you don’t want in a URL, for example åäö. Download the module, install it and activate it.

Go to Configuration -> search and metadata -> url aliases -> settings

Transliteration

Scroll down to Transliterate prior to creating alias _and activate it, then click _Save configuration.

Transliterate prior to creating alias

Now when creating new content the urls will contain valid characters.

5. Updating already added content

To update urls for already existing content just go to Configuration -_> search and metadata -_> url aliases -_>Delete aliases Check the all aliases checkbox and click _Delete aliases now!

Url aliases

Now click on the BULK UPDATE tab and check all checkboxes you want to create an alias for and click Update

Bulk update

To update ruby version used by a ruby on rails app we need to start with installing the ruby version we want. This can be accomplished very easy with Ruby Version Manager (RVM).

RVM Terminal

Start a terminal window and run this to install RVM and Ruby 1.9.3:

$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby=1.9.3 --autolibs=enabled

When the install is done quit the terminal and start it again, then run this command to set ruby version:

rvm --default use 1.9.3

Next update the gemfile with the new ruby version:

ruby '1.9.3'

And we’re done!