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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# A complete URL-shortening web application, written in Ruby/Sinatra. Run it 
# from the command line, and then visit http://localhost:4567/
#
# Or to run it under apache/passenger, you'll need a config.ru file with the
# following contents:
#
#   require 'tinyurl'
#   run Sinatra::Application

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post_data = {}
post_data[:name]    = 'Title for my link'
post_data[:link]    = 'http://path.to/my/link'
post_data[:caption] = 'A caption'
post_data[:description] = 'A description'
post_data[:picture] = 'http://path.to/myimage.jpg'
post_data[:actions] = { :name => 'My site name', :link => 'http://link.to/my/site'}.to_json

client.post("feed", nil, post_data)

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--- 
BUNDLE_WITHOUT: ""

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  # method to evaluate the block for a default value if the
  # conversion to date fails
  # string.to_date return nil if the string is blank
  # so we yield to get the default value from the block there
  # or on a parse error
  def string_to_date(string,&block)
    string.to_date || yield
  rescue => e
    block_given? ? yield : raise
  end

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/texbin/"
which pandoc &>/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
    if [ ! -n "$1" ]
    then
        echo 'defaulting to pdf'
        file_name='scalingphp.pdf'
    else

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gem 'rake', '=0.8.7'
require 'rake'
require 'rake/testtask'
require 'rake/rdoctask'

#TODO don't shell out quite as much
namespace :bootstrap do
  task :dev => ['bootstrap:copy_configs', 'bootstrap:bundle_gems', 'bootstrap:database'] do
    run_cmd "bundle exec rake db:test:prepare"
  end

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require 'action_view'
require 'ostruct'
require 'erb'
require 'flog'
require 'ruby_parser'
require 'sexp_processor'

ERBHandler = ActionView::Template::Handlers::ERB.new

def new_template(body, details={format: :html})

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require 'action_view'
require 'ostruct'
require 'erb'
require 'flog'
require 'ruby_parser'
require 'sexp_processor'

ERBHandler = ActionView::Template::Handlers::ERB.new

def new_template(body, details={format: :html})

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Recommended code reading from Ruby Parley

Ruby

• cane: https://github.com/square/cane
• Capybara: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
• REST Client: https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client
• Savon: https://github.com/savonrb/savon
• Unicorn: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn

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# encoding: utf-8

# code from: http://techtime.getharvest.com/blog/harvest-is-now-on-ruby-1-dot-9-3
# and also: https://gist.github.com/1976864
# Serialized columns in AR don't support UTF-8 well, so set the encoding on those

class ActiveRecord::Base
  def unserialize_attribute_with_utf8(attr_name)
    traverse = lambda do |object, block|
      if object.kind_of?(Hash)