fujin

template "/tmp/foo.rb"
  source "foo.rb.erb"
  cookbook "banana"
end

liamcurry

Moving from jQuery

Events

// jQuery
$(document).ready(function() {
  // code
})

toolmantim

Retaining line numbers with the Rails asset pipeline

By default the Rails 3 asset pipeline uses the Uglifier gem to optimize and minify your Javascript. One of its many optimisations is to remove all whitespace, turning your Javascript into one very long line of code.

Whist removing all the newlines helps to reduce the file size, it has the disadvantage of making your Javascript harder to debug. If you've tried to track down Javascript errors in minified Javascript files you'll know the lack of whitespace does make life harder.

Luckily there is a simple solution: to configure Uglifier to add newlines back into the code after it performs its optimisations. And if you're serving your files correctly gzip'd, the newlines add only a small increase to the final file size.

You can configure Uglifier to add the newlines by setting the following in your Rails 3 config/production.rb file:

bradpauly

module ActionDispatch
  module Session
    class CustomFileStore < ActionDispatch::Session::AbstractStore
      def get_session(env, session_id)
        session_data = {}
        session_id ||= generate_sid
        File.open(tmp_file(session_id),'r') do |f|
          data = f.read
          session_data = ::Marshal.load(data) unless data.empty?
        end rescue nil

cupakromer

my_array = %w[test one two three]

# Inject takes the value of the block and passes it along
# This often causes un-intended errors
my_array.inject({}) do |transformed, word|
  puts transformed
  transformed[word] = word.capitalize
end
# Output:
# {}

chrisle

module CapybaraWithPhantomJs
  include Capybara

  # Create a new PhantomJS session in Capybara
  def new_session

    # Register PhantomJS (aka poltergeist) as the driver to use
    Capybara.register_driver :poltergeist do |app|
      Capybara::Poltergeist::Driver.new(app)
    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:

spikegrobstein

# This requires tmux 2.1. a lot of these settings will error on anything earlier.

# Act like Vim; use h,j,k,l to select panes and move the cursor
set-window-option -g mode-keys vi
bind-key h select-pane -L
bind-key j select-pane -D
bind-key k select-pane -U
bind-key l select-pane -R

# Look good

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"

Results

joostrijneveld

# Heavily depends on:
# libqrencode (fukuchi.org/works/qrencode/)
# paperkey (jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/)
# zbar (zbar.sourceforge.net)

# Producing the QR codes:
# Split over 4 codes to ensure the data per image is not too large.
gpg --export-secret-key KEYIDGOESHERE | paperkey --output-type raw | base64 > temp
split temp -n 4 IMG
for f in IMG*; do cat $f | qrencode -o $f.png; done