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require 'right_aws'

namespace :utils do
  namespace :attachments do
    task :initialize_s3 => :environment do
      s3_config = YAML.load_file(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '/../../config/amazon_s3.yml'))
      s3_config = s3_config[RAILS_ENV].to_options

      @s3 = RightAws::S3.new(s3_config[:access_key_id], s3_config[:secret_access_key])
    end

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var DateHelper = {
  // Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time
  // Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT
  time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) {
    var date = new Date; 
    date.setTime(Date.parse(from));
    return this.time_ago_in_words(date);
  },
  
  time_ago_in_words: function(from) {

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document.observe("dom:loaded", function() {
  function updateElementsWithTime() {
    $$("span[time]").invoke('updateTime')
  }
  
  // update immediately
  updateElementsWithTime()
  // continue updating every 2 minutes
  new PeriodicalExecuter(updateElementsWithTime, 60 * 2)
})

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#/usr/bin/ruby

name = 1
300.times do
  `time dd if=/dev/zero of=#{name}.bin bs=100000 count=1`
  name += 1
end

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# controllers/application.rb
def current_cart
  if session[:cart_id]
    @current_cart ||= Cart.find(session[:cart_id])
    session[:cart_id] = nil if @current_cart.purchased_at
  end
  if session[:cart_id].nil?
    @current_cart = Cart.create!
    session[:cart_id] = @current_cart.id
  end

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# Add safe tags to sanitize method

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = 'table', 'tr', 'td'
  config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_attributes = 'id', 'class', 'style'
end

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# If cached file exists, serve it and stop processing
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cache/%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [L]

# other redirection (imgs, js, css, ...) 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*/mephisto/.* 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*html 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 -f

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# How to set Safari to open links targeted for a new window in a new tab

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

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# deploy to staging from your current topic branch, with ease
set :branch, "origin/#{`git branch`.scan(/^\* (\S+)/)}"

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SELECT users.`firstname` AS first,
users.`lastname` AS last,
user_details.`birthday` AS birthday
FROM users
LEFT OUTER JOIN user_details ON user_details.user_id = users.id
WHERE
STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(birthday,'%m-%d'),'%m-%d') >= STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(now(),'%m-%d'),'%m-%d')
AND
STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(birthday,'%m-%d'),'%m-%d') < STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(now()+INTERVAL 7 DAY,'%m-%d'),'%m-%d');