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body { padding: 10em; }
textarea { min-width: 40em; }

div {
  padding: 2em;
  border-left: 5px solid #c1c2c4;
  border-right: 5px solid #c1c2c4;  
  position: relative;
}

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body {
	margin: 0 auto;
	margin-top: 5em;
	width: 760px;
}

.pulse {
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
	border-radius: 50%;

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Git is a tool that can confuse. Some feel intimidated by it, which is a shame, because git's design is stunningly simple: basic building blocks, and very consistent behaviour. It's a design you can always reason about to work things through, once you get the starting point.

We'll cover the theory, to nail those first principles -- important stuff, and interesting too, but we won't get bogged down in it. After all, the aim is a new tool in your toolbox.

We'll concentrate instead on what makes that stuff important: it's the bread and butter of day-to-day git. Trees, refs, rebasing, branches & tags, and more.

If you've ever thought "what the hell did git just do?" or "Oh dear, this repo is really broken now", then this workshop is for you.

This is a hands-on workshop. Bring your laptop to follow along.

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# Put this file in your config/initializers directory and behold a tastier auto_link!

module ActionView
  module Helpers
    module TextHelper
      # Use auto_link and friends from Rails 3. They do the right thing (tm).

      remove_const(:AUTO_LINK_RE) if defined?(AUTO_LINK_RE)
      AUTO_LINK_RE = %r{
          ( https?:// | www\. )

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http://ujihisa.blogspot.com/2009/06/rubygems-best-practice.html

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A few things left to do:

* Ability to add default options for each PDF, rather than having to pass it to each generate_* method call

* Doesn't check if the pdf already exists. By default, which should it do?
  - Overwrite the existing file. Let your users decide what they'd like to do here. 

* Consider the inclusion of css, or even generated css templates using pre existing libraries (lesscss or yerk – sass.)

Anything else?

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# Run the given block +num+ times and then print out the mean, median, min,
# max, and stddev of the run. For example:
#
# irb> stats(10) { sleep(rand / 100) }
# mean:   5.99ms
# median: 6.76ms
# min:    1.49ms
# max:    9.28ms
# stddev: 2.54ms
def stats(num)

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# Run the given block +num+ times and then print out the mean, median, min,
# max, and stddev of the run. For example:
#
# irb> stats(10) { sleep(rand / 100) }
# mean:   5.99ms
# median: 6.76ms
# min:    1.49ms
# max:    9.28ms
# stddev: 2.54ms
def stats(num)

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Poor Man's Deploy

• Start a Sinatra server on port 4000
• GET / to that server triggers a git pull and mod_rails restart
• Hit port 4000 locally after pushing

Why?

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module Locality::Search
  
  def self.included(base)
    base.class_eval do
      class << self

        def search(criteria)
          logger.debug("search")
          results = find_all_by_name(criteria)
          if results.empty?