Sometimes the development version of an app includes multiple code e.g. an extension that should not be released yet. In this case, it’s possible to exclude the extension when building an app. This keeps all your code, but does not include the extension during the build phase.
To achieve this, simply open the Build Phases of your main app and remove the extension(s) from Dependencies and Embed App Extensions. You can add the extension later when required.
Quick Look already supports multiple file types. But there ist more – especially for software development. Here are some plugins that make Quick Look even better.
Note: some of the plugins might not work instantly after brew install ... when you are on macOS Catalina or later. In this case, it is possible to download the plugin manually and copy the .qlgenerator file to ~/Library/QuickLook. This requires to run qlmanage -r (or a system restart) to enable the plugin.
QLMarkdown provides QuickLook support for markdown files (*.md). This plugin renders the markdown content and shows the result. To install QLMarkdown, use:
This Quick Look plugin provides a file preview for files without extension, e.g. README, INSTALL, Capfile, CHANGELOG, etc. It can be installed using Homebrew:
The enterkeyhint is a html attribute described in the HTML standard, which can be used to improve the context of action buttons of keyboards on mobile device.
The enterkeyhint content attribute is an enumerated attribute that specifies what action label (or icon) to present for the enter key on virtual keyboards. This allows authors to customize the presentation of the enter key in order to make it more helpful for users.
It allows the following fixed values: enter, done, go, next, previous, search and send. Let’s have a look at those values and the resulting keyboard style on iOS:
<input>
The default behavior without any value.
<input enterkeyhint=”enter”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘enter’, typically inserting a new line.
<input enterkeyhint=”done”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘done’, typically meaning there is nothing more to input and the input method editor (IME) will be closed.
<input enterkeyhint=”go”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘go’, typically meaning to take the user to the target of the text they typed.
<input enterkeyhint=”next”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘next’, typically taking the user to the next field that will accept text.
<input enterkeyhint=”previous”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘previous’, typically taking the user to the previous field that will accept text.
<input enterkeyhint=”search”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘search’, typically taking the user to the results of searching for the text they have typed.
<input enterkeyhint=”send”>
The user agent should present a cue for the operation ‘send’, typically delivering the text to its target.
As always: before you do such an update, make sure to create a backup of all your files. If something goes wrong, this may lead to data loss!
Manual update
To update an existing Docker container manually, the following steps are necessary;
Go to Registry and download new image (mostly the “latest” version)
Go to Container, select the container you need to update and stop it
From Actions menu select “Clear” Edit: Under DSM7, the “Clear” command has been renamed “Reset”.
Start the container again
This will clear the complete container and start with the newly downloaded Docker image. Since the data folders are mounted into the container, this will not erase the apllications data. Configurations are also not affected by this.
Side note: when updating a major version of gitlab/gitlab-ce, make sure to follow the update paths! This requires updates in smaller steps (minor versions).
Automatically update Docker images
Updating a Docker image manually might be fine for a small number of images. But there is a more elegant way by using another Docker container called Watchtower. This one can update Docker containers automatically. The image is called containrrr/watchtower. A simple setup can be performed with the following steps:
Load image containrrr/watchtower in the Docker registry
This will start the Watchtower image and update all container once. The container created for this runs once and can then be found switched off in the list of containers. Now you can start it manually again and again as needed or let it run at certain times via Synology Task Scheduler. The command for the task scheduler is then as follows:
docker start watchtower-once -a
Let Watchtower run permanently
Alternatively you can use the scheduler in Watchtower itself. If you want to start it every Monday at 4 a.m., then enter the following command on the shell:
It is important to set the time zone to your because otherwise you will have an offset to UTC. In addition, the container is not terminated but always restarted. Even if it crashed or the NAS was restarted. The last parameter uses the cron syntax for scheduling the task.
Compared to other IntelliJ® based software, some shortcuts in Android Studio did not work for me. For example cmd + shift + F, which should open the global search did not work.
The reason for this is the keymap setting that was set to IntelliJ IDEA Classic. Setting the keymap to macOS (as shown in the figure below) solved the issue.
There are two (or even more) solutions to install GitLab on a Synology:
Using Docker and the container gitlab/gitlab-ce
Using the DSM package manager
Depending on the type of installation, different settings are required to update the external url.
Using Docker container
The external url of GitLab can e defined in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb. The parameter takes an url and can also handle a port:
external_url 'http://example.synology.me:30000/'
Important: when a port is specified in external_url, this will override the https/https port where nginx is listening. To use a different port for nginx, this requires an additional setting:
The settings above are necessary, if port routing is set like the following:
Using DSM package manager installation
This installation of GitLab on Synology uses localhost as a default value for external url. This may lead to some problems when accessing GitLab over another IP or host name. In my case, this lead to missing icons and a non functional WebIDE. An inspection of the html page shows, that some resources are requested over http://localhost/... which leads to 404 errors for those resources.
Since the GitLab container on Synology is not based on the omnibus package, you can not use directly external_url in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb. If you want to change the url you can do it by changing the docker environment parameter GITLAB_HOST.
The setup described in this post has been tested on the following system:
DS216+II with 8GB RAM
DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 2
In addition, the following software packages have already been installed on the system using the Synology package manager:
Docker 18.09.0-0513
GitLab is installed via the Docker Registry:
gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest (in my case GitLab 13.5.1-ce.0)
Install GitLab
You can skip this part, if GitLab is already running on your Synology and continue with the step Install GitLab Runner.
To install GitLab, open the Docker Registry and search for “gitlab”. Double click the entry gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest and select the latest version:
After the image is loaded, it will be listed under image. Launch this image and set the folders to be mounted as shown in the following image. This will simplify the access to the docker files within your Synology.
Mounted folder / volumes
Port settings
The port settings depend on your system. Normally, HTTP is accessible at port 80 or HTTPS on port 443. If your system already uses other apps that are running on those port, you can adjust them in Port Settings.
After completing the setup, it might take some time until the GitLab web surface is available. When accessing GitLab for the first time, you can specify a password for the root environment. The default username for the admin area is root. Now you can create user accounts, projects and perform any adjustments that fit your needs.
Install GitLab Runner
As the Synology DSM uses Docker to run GitLab, we can use Docker as well to install GitLab Runner. For this, connect to the Synology using SSH:
ssh <admin-user>@<synology> -p <port>
Now we can install the Gitlab Runner Docker container that can run other Docker containers to perform the runner tasks:
This will install a Docker container with the name gitlab_runner_docker which uses the same network as Docker (‘–network host‘).
As this container is the basis for our Docker-in-Docker setup, we connect the Docker socket of our main container to the new one by using -v /run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock.
You might also use the Docker GUI of DSM to create the container. But the step above can only be done with the help of the console command!
To test the container, you can use the following command to connect to the console:
Runtime platform arch=amd64 os=linux pid=16 revision=e95f89a0 version=13.4.1
Running in system-mode.
Please enter the gitlab-ci coordinator URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com/):
http://10.0.6.102:30000/
Please enter the gitlab-ci token for this runner:
ab1234abcd1234abcd12
Please enter the gitlab-ci description for this runner:
[synology]: docker_alpine
Please enter the gitlab-ci tags for this runner (comma separated):
Registering runner... succeeded runner=sA4DKorC
Please enter the executor: docker-ssh, parallels, docker+machine, kubernetes, docker, shell, ssh, virtualbox, docker-ssh+machine, custom:
docker
Please enter the default Docker image (e.g. ruby:2.6):
alpine:latest
Runner registered successfully. Feel free to start it, but if it's running already the config should be automatically reloaded!
In this case, the executor docker and the base image alpine:latest is used for this container.
If you use a self-signed certificate for GItLab, then you have to specify the certificate with the option --tls-ca-file during registration:
Let’s connect to the bash terminal of this container to change some settings:
docker exec -it gitlab_runner_docker /bin/bash
The created Docker container is an alpine base system without any packages installed. To perform the changes, we need a simple terminal text editor like nano or vim. The following commands will install nano for this task:
apt-get update
apt-get install nano
Now you can use nano to edit the GitLab Runner config file:
nano /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml
And add the following lines as highlighted in the config file below:
That’s it. Now you can use this GitLab Runner for your repositories and run jobs by using other Docker containers.
Example usage in .gitlab-ci.yml
The following example uses a php container to run tests for a simple PHP application and deploy the code to a server. Some of the settings depend on the setup of your PHP application, so the example will not work out of the box. But it can give you a good idea of what is possible.
# https://hub.docker.com/_/php
image: php:7.4-fpm
services:
- mysql:5.7
variables:
# Configure mysql environment variables (https://hub.docker.com/_/mysql/)
MYSQL_USER: $MYSQL_USER
MYSQL_PASSWORD: $MYSQL_PASSWORD
before_script:
# Initialize database, etc
stages:
- test
- deploy
test:
stage: test
script:
- composer install
- composer phpunit
deploy_production:
stage: deploy
environment:
name: production
url: https://www.example.com
script:
# run on server 'git checkout master && git pull origin master && exit'
only:
- master
