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#!/usr/bin/python
#
# startvpn: Automatically connect to a VPN when associating with a 
# wireless network
#
# Once you've successfully set up an OpenVPN connection in NetworkManager, 
# configure the settings below, then install this script as 
# /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/02startvpn (it seems to be happiest
# when chowned root:root)
#

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module EnumeratedAttributes
  def self.included(base)
    base.extend ClassMethods
  end
  module ClassMethods
    def enumeration(attr_name, options)
      # Declare a mapping of symbols to integer values for an attribute:
      #
      #  enumeration :ghost, 
      #    :in => {:past => 0, :present => 12, :yet_to_come => -5},

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# In spite of the proscription at the end of Recipe 69, "Upload Custom Maintenance
# Pages" in Mike Clark's excellent Advanced Rails Recipes, I wanted to generate my
# maintenance page with the full awesome power of Rails (ok, well, I wanted to use
# a real template, to avoid having to maintain the look of the maintenance page
# separately).
# 
# My solution was to render the page using this rake task, which goes in:
# lib/tasks/render_maintenance.rake
task :render_maintenance => :environment do
  # Render the maintenance page into tmp/maintenance.html,

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# Conditionally delay outgoing mail
class DelayedMailerBase < ActionMailer::Base
  class << self
    def method_missing(method_symbol, *parameters)
      # If this is "deliver_xx", maybe delay it; if we do, change 
      # its name so that we don't delay in the worker.
      method_name = method_symbol.to_s
      if matches_deliver_method?(method_name) and delaying_mail?
        return self.send_later("delayed_#{method_name}".to_sym, *parameters)
      end

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# "Ascertain" the revision we're running (so named so it'll come before
# the cache initializer, which uses this info).

def determine_revision
  # Note the revision number we're running, and a
  # more-informative string containing it.
  revision_path = File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../REVISION"
  begin
    digits = 8
    if File.exist? revision_path

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Don't run this - it's a waste of time...
#
# We got ourselves into a situation where we had several undeployed migrations
# that depended on intermediate versions of our models to evolve production
# data, which prevented easy deployment.
#
# I wrote this script, assuming that it could "figure out" how to check out
# intermediate revisions and migrate in several steps. Unfortunately, this

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module ManualUpdate
  def self.by(login_name)
    ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do
      ActiveRecord::Base.current_user = User.find_by_login!(login_name)
      PaperTrail.whodunnit = login_name

      puts "Running update..."
      yield

      puts "Checking database validity..."

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require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../../config/environment")

ManualUpdate::by('stearns') do
  # We got this from a tenant:
  ## I made my first online payment using your website this afternoon. Somehow
  ## two payments in the amount of $1150 were processed and are scheduled to 
  ## come out of my checking account tomorrow. Can you please cancel one of 
  ## the payments to my account?

  LineItem.delete(3471)

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root@vbox3:~# rvm info

ree-1.8.7-2011.03:

  system:
    uname:       "Linux vbox3 2.6.32-29-generic-pae #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 11 19:15:25 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux"
    bash:        "/bin/bash => GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (i486-pc-linux-gnu)"
    zsh:         " => not installed"

  rvm:

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root@vbox3:/usr/local/rvm/src/rubygems-1.4.1# ls -R
.:
bin        cruise_config.rb  hide_lib_for_update  lib          Manifest.txt  Rakefile  README.rdoc  test
ChangeLog  GPL.txt           History.txt          LICENSE.txt  pkgs          README    setup.rb     util

./bin:
gem  update_rubygems

./hide_lib_for_update:
note.txt