Nick Vanselow nvanselow

Methods of Signing Git Commits on MacOS

Last updated March 13, 2024

This Gist explains how to sign commits using gpg in a step-by-step fashion. Previously, krypt.co was heavily mentioned, but I've only recently learned they were acquired by Akamai and no longer update their previous free products. Those mentions have been removed.

Additionally, 1Password now supports signing Git commits with SSH keys and makes it pretty easy-plus you can easily configure Git Tower to use it for both signing and ssh.

For using a GUI-based GIT tool such as Tower or Github Desktop, follow the steps here for signing your commits with GPG.

Useful resources: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git/

Step 1. Check for git on your machine:

In terminal

$ which git

if you get something along the lines of /usr/local/bin/git you have git,

The Laracasts PHPStorm theme.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/f4l3qc2falnvq61/laracasts_theme_updated.icls

(Add to ~/Library/Preferences/WebIde80/colors on Mac.)

You can use Codeception to test Javascript, like DOM manipulations and Ajax requests. Out of the box it can manipulate DOM elements but can't execute Javascript code, like most testing frameworks. But it gives you the option to use a WebDriver, to connect to a headless browser, and mimic a user browsing your website. It gives you some options: Selenium2, ZombieJS and, the easiest to configure, PhantomJS.

This article covers the installation and usage of PhantomJS, and assumes you are using Laravel Homestead, but it will work on any relatively new Debian based distro, like Ubuntu 14.04.

###Install PhantomJS

Just run those commands to install it:

sudo apt-get update

#Simple Authentication with Bcrypt

This tutorial is for adding authentication to a vanilla Ruby on Rails app using Bcrypt and has_secure_password.

The steps below are based on Ryan Bates's approach from Railscast #250 Authentication from Scratch (revised).

You can see the final source code here: repo. I began with a stock rails app using rails new gif_vault

##Steps

1. Clone your fork:

git clone git@github.com:YOUR-USERNAME/YOUR-FORKED-REPO.git

2. Add remote from original repository in your forked repository:

cd into/cloned/fork-repo
git remote add upstream git://github.com/ORIGINAL-DEV-USERNAME/REPO-YOU-FORKED-FROM.git
git fetch upstream

	#!/bin/sh

	# Called by "git commit" with no arguments. The hook should
	# exit with non-zero status after issuing an appropriate message if
	# it wants to stop the commit.

	# uncomment next line for debugging, will print all expanded bash commands
	#set -x

	# Yes, if you put "fdescribe" in a comment block, this will still abort the

	# In order for gpg to find gpg-agent, gpg-agent must be running, and there must be an env
	# variable pointing GPG to the gpg-agent socket. This little script, which must be sourced
	# in your shell's init script (ie, .bash_profile, .zshrc, whatever), will either start
	# gpg-agent or set up the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable if it's already running.

	# Add the following to your shell init to set up gpg-agent automatically for every shell
	if [ -f ~/.gnupg/.gpg-agent-info ] && [ -n "$(pgrep gpg-agent)" ]; then
	source ~/.gnupg/.gpg-agent-info
	export GPG_AGENT_INFO
	else

	=Navigating=
	visit('/projects')
	visit(post_comments_path(post))

	=Clicking links and buttons=
	click_link('id-of-link')
	click_link('Link Text')
	click_button('Save')
	click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
	click('Button Value')