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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'open3'
include Open3

skip_erb_files = true

compiler_ruby = `which rbx`.strip
compiler_ruby = `which ruby`.strip if compiler_ruby.length == 0

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# Encodes a string from encoding "from" to encoding "to" in
# a way that works for both ruby 1.8 and 1.9
def convert_string_encoding(to, from, str)
  if "1.9".respond_to?(:force_encoding)
    str = str.dup if str.frozen?
    str.encode(to, from, :undef => :replace)
  else
    require 'iconv'
    Iconv.conv(to, from, str)
  end

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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)

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class Cocktail
  attr_accessor :name
  def initialize(name)
    @name = name
  end
  
  def liquor
    case self.name
    when "journalist": "gin"
    when "sazerac": "whiskey"

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Sandi Metz’ rules for developers

1. Your class can be no longer than a hundred lines of code.
2. Your methods can be no longer than five lines of code
3. You can pass no more than four parameters and you can't just make it one big hash.
4. In your controller, you can only instantiate one object, to do whatever it is that needs to be done.
5. Your view can only know about one instance variable.
6. Your Rails view should only send messages to that object i.e., no Demeter violations.[ "thunder dome principal". Translated: one model in, one model out! ]
7. Rules are meant to be broken if by breaking them you produce better code. [ ...where "better code" is validated by explaining why you want to break the rule to someone else. ]

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The @dhh Drinking Game

Take a drink whenever @dhh:

1. Drops the f-bomb (or says "shit")
2. Makes fun of Java (or Struts, Hibernate, etc)
3. Mentions "frameworks should be extractions, not inventions"
4. Mentions "constraints are liberating"
5. Defends TurboLinks or the asset pipeline
6. Mentions Basecamp

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5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

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source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'cinch', '< 1.2'

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require 'sinatra/base'

class FakeGitHub < Sinatra::Base
  def simulate_error!
    @@simulate_error = true
  end
  
  def reset!
    @@simulate_error = false
  end

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Start with a machine that is directly accessible to both parties via SSH (linode, EC2, prgmr.com, etc), and that you can add users to. DO NOT USE root!!!!

Usage

##From the hosts local machine:

ssh -R1337:localhost:22 host@<shared server's ip address/hostname>