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/* id styling has widespread effects */
#site a { padding-left: 10px; }

/* does nothing */
li a { padding-left: 10px; }

/* also does nothing */
.sidebar li:first a { padding-left: 10px; }

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drop table pod_markets;
drop table pod_sections;
drop table pods;
drop table feature_pods;
drop table promotion_pods;
drop table getaway_pods;
drop table activity_pods;
drop table gear_pods;
drop table journal_pods;
drop table filter_group_pods;

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- cache [@current_market, MarketPod.get_in_shape.name, get_in_shape_pods.max_by(&:updated_at)] do
  .module-header
    %h3
      Get in Shape
    %a.button.button-see-all-white{href: products_path}
      See All
  %ul.clearfix
    - if get_in_shape_pods.present?
      - pod = get_in_shape_pods[0]
      - cache [MarketPod.get_in_shape.name, "small-pod", pod] do

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Reasons why I think Slack is a better user experience

• search works far better
• account switching works really well
• autocomplete of addressing other users is not buggy in Slack
• up arrow history
• proper editing of messages

little things

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require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'

desc 'migrate legacy table to add column'
namespace :document_manager do
  namespace :db do
    task :migrate do
      ActiveRecord::Base.clear_active_connections!
      configs = open('config/database.yml') { |f| YAML.load(f) }
      ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) 

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#calling view
<%= growl4rails_includes(3000, 5) %>

<%= 
periodically_call_remote(
	:url => '/foos/loading_statuses.js', 
	:frequency => '4',
	:complete => "request", 
	:method => 'GET'
)

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find . -name "* *"|while read file
do
   echo "$file"
   mv "$file" "`echo "$file"| awk ' BEGIN {OFS="_"} $1=$1 '`"
done

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Find common Twitter friends
# Usage: ./twat.rb user1 user2 ...

lists = ARGV.inject({}) do |hash, username|
  page = 0
  while !(output = `curl -s http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/#{username}.xml?page=#{page += 1} | grep "<screen_name>"`.gsub(%r{</?screen_name>}, '').split).empty?
    hash[username] = ((hash[username] || []) + output).sort
  end
  hash

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namespace :db do
  desc 'Drops and recreates the database from db/schema.rb for the current environment and loads the seeds.'
  task :reset => [ 'db:drop', 'db:setup' ]

  desc 'Create the database, load the schema, and initialize with the seed data'
  task :setup => [ 'db:create', 'db:schema:load', 'db:seed' ]
  
  desc 'Load the seed data from db/seeds.rb'
  task :seed => :environment do
    seed_file = File.join(Rails.root, 'db', 'seeds.rb')

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "cgi"
require 'active_record'

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter => ,
  :database => ,
  :username => ,
  :password => ,
  :host =>