How to use solarized colorscheme for vim on a Nitrous box

I'm a happy user of Nitrous.IO for my Ruby on Rails development. As a vim user and a fan of the solarized colorscheme, I had to find a way to set it up for my Nitrous box.

I was not able to setup the full solarized colorscheme for vim so I had to use the degraded 256 colorscheme. To do so, I added the following lines in my .vimrc:

set background=dark
let g:solarized_termcolors=256
color solarized

I can now enjoy using my favorite colorscheme on my favorite editor!

Setup for new rails project with RSpec

I like to use RSpec instead of Test::Unit for my rails projects. Here are the steps I use to setup my projects.
Create new rails project without Test::Unit

rails new MYAPP -T

Add rspec-rails to your Gemfile:

gem 'rspec-rails'

Choose a javascript runtime in the Gemfile:

gem 'therubyracer', :platform => :ruby

Run bundle install:

bundle install

Install rspec in rails:

rails g rspec:install

Let's write the first spec!

Debian autotest setup

I spent some time learning Ruby on Rails these days and I had some trouble setting up autotest on my Debian box.
I finally managed to make it work thanks to these instructions.

$ sudo gem install ZenTest
$ sudo gem install autotest-rails
$ sudo apt-get install libnotify-bin
$ sudo gem install test_notifier

And then add require test_notifier/runner/autotest" to the file ~/.autotest