JosephPecoraro

# Ways to execute a shell script in Ruby
# Example Script - Joseph Pecoraro

cmd = "echo 'hi'" # Sample string that can be used

# 1. Kernel#` - commonly called backticks - `cmd` 
# This is like many other languages, including bash, PHP, and Perl
#   Synchronous (blocking)
#   Returns the output of the shell command
#   Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001111

remy

(function () {  
  var forEach = [].forEach, 
      regex = /^data-(.+)/,
      dashChar = /\-([a-z])/ig,
      el = document.createElement('div'),
      mutationSupported = false,
      match
  ;

  function detectMutation() {

otobrglez

# This method finds related articles using Jaccard index (optimized for PostgreSQL).
# More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

  def related(limit=10)
    Article.find_by_sql(%Q{
      SELECT
      	a.*,
      	( SELECT array_agg(t.name) FROM taggings tg, tags t

jonathanmoore

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

xxbastekxx

require 'digest/md5'

def gfm(text)
  # Extract pre blocks
  extractions = {}
  text.gsub!(%r{<pre>.*?</pre>}m) do |match|
    md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(match)
    extractions[md5] = match
    "{gfm-extraction-#{md5}}"
  end

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

czarneckid

Zero downtime deploys with unicorn + nginx + runit + rvm + chef

Below are the actual files we use in one of our latest production applications at Agora Games to achieve zero downtime deploys with unicorn. You've probably already read the GitHub blog post on Unicorn and would like to try zero downtime deploys for your application. I hope these files and notes help. I am happy to update these files or these notes if there are comments/questions. YMMV (of course).

Other application notes:

• Our application uses MongoDB, so we don't have database migrations to worry about as with MySQL or postgresql. That does not mean that we won't have to worry about issues with the database with indexes being built in MongoDB or what have you.
• We use capistrano for deployment.

Salient points for each file:

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

linjunpop

Deploy Rails 4 app with Dokku on DigitalOcean

Install dokku

First create a Ubuntu 13.04 x64 droplet on DigitalOcean Control Panel

Then ssh with root account, run this in termianl:

$ wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/progrium/dokku/master/bootstrap.sh | sudo bash

lelandbatey

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

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