ddollar

* keep people working on internal projects, assign and schedule the work
  * dont look desperate, dont have immediate availability
  * can tell a client you can 'shuffle internal projects' to accomodate them

* online ads dont work well
  * referrals instead
  * do a great job every single time
  * voice calls important
    * when people call you call them back

banker

# mongo_template.rb
# fork of Ben Scofield's Rails MongoMapper Template (http://gist.github.com/181842)
#
# To use:
#  rails project_name -m http://gist.github.com/gists/219223.txt

# remove unneeded defaults
run "rm public/index.html"
run "rm public/images/rails.png"
run "rm public/javascripts/controls.js"

jrom

##
# $ rails example.com -m http://tr.im/typus_example
##

# Install Typus and friends.

plugin 'typus', :git => 'git://github.com/fesplugas/typus.git'
plugin 'acts_as_list', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/acts_as_list.git'
plugin 'acts_as_tree', :git => 'git://github.com/rails/acts_as_tree.git'
plugin 'paperclip', :git => 'git://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip.git'

activestylus

#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Git Setup
#----------------------------------------------------------------------------
file '.gitignore', <<-FILE
.DS_Store
log/*.log
tmp/**/*
config/database.yml
db/*.sqlite3
public/uploads/*

jeffrafter

require 'action_controller/test_process'

# Paperclip attachments in factories, made easy based on technicalpickles
Factory.class_eval do
  def attach(name, path, content_type = nil)
    if content_type
      add_attribute name, ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{path}", content_type)
    else
      add_attribute name, ActionController::TestUploadedFile.new("#{RAILS_ROOT}/#{path}")
    end

thhermansen

##
# CarrierWave Amazon S3 File Reprocessor Rake Task
#
# Written (specifically) for:
# - CarrierWave
# - Ruby on Rails 3
# - Amazon S3
#
# Works with:
# - Any server of which you have write-permissions in the Rails.root/tmp directory

ayosec

map = [
  "âãäåāăąÁÂÃÄÅĀĂĄèééêëēĕėęěĒĔĖĘĚìíîïìĩīĭÌÍÎÏÌĨĪĬóôõöōŏőÒÓÔÕÖŌŎŐùúûüũūŭůÙÚÛÜŨŪŬŮñÑçÇüÜ".mb_chars,
  "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnccuu"
]

# ActiveSupport::Multibyte::Chars#tr broken?
word = "anything"
adapted_word = "%#{word.mb_chars.split(//).map {|e| (p = map[0].index(e)) ? map[1][p,1] : e.to_s  }.join.downcase}%"
Post.where("lower(translate(title, '#{map[0]}', '#{map[1]}')) like #{Post.connection.quote word}")

alg

# This Rails template will generate a Rails 3 (MASTER) application, with MongoDB as ORM and Devise for authentication.
# You will require ruby 1.9.2-HEAD to run generated app.

file 'Gemfile', <<-GEMS
source 'http://gemcutter.org'
gem "rails", :git => "git://github.com/rails/rails.git"
gem "mongoid", "2.0.0.beta4"
gem "bson_ext", "0.20.1"
gem "inherited_resources"
gem "devise", :git => "git://github.com/plataformatec/devise.git"

brynary

Capistrano::Configuration.instance(:must_exist).load do
  namespace :git do
    task :warn_unpushed_changes do
      master_rev = `git rev-parse master`.strip
      origin_master_rev = `git rev-parse origin/master`.strip

      if master_rev != origin_master_rev
        puts "*" * 80
        answer = Capistrano::CLI.ui.ask(" You have local commits that have yet to be pushed to origin.  Continue? (y/N)")
        exit(1) unless answer.downcase == 'y'

softprops

# using rvm with ruby-1.8.7-p249

# latest version 2.7.7 2010-06-17
brew install libxml2

# installing libxslt from source code
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz
tar xvfz libxslt-1.1.26.tar.gz
cd libxslt-1.1.26
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libxslt/1.1.26 --with-libxml-prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/libxml2/2.7.7