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g3d / gist:2709563
Last active February 7, 2024 15:21 — forked from saetia/gist:1623487
Clean Install – OS X 10.11 El Capitan
@justinko
justinko / Plea.markdown
Created May 30, 2012 19:40
Am I doing it wrong?

Dear Rubyists,

I just lost a contract because of my code in a Rails project.

The specific code in question is related to a "posting a comment" feature. Here are the details:

In this project, "posting a comment" does not simply entail inserting a row into the database. It involves a procedure to yes, insert a row, but also detect its language, check for spam, send emails, and "share" it to Twitter and Facebook. I believe this algorithm should be encapsulated. I do not believe it belongs in a controller or a model. I do not believe Active Record callbacks should be used.

The "senior developer", whom is the stake holder's right hand man, said this:

@paulirish
paulirish / gist:3098860
Created July 12, 2012 15:26
Open Conference Expectations

Open Conference Expectations

This document lays out some baseline expectations between conference speakers and conference presenters. The general goal is to maximize the value the conference provides to its attendees and community and to let speakers know what they might reasonably expect from a conference.

We believe that all speakers should reasonably expect these things, not just speakers who are known to draw large crowds, because no one is a rockstar but more people should have the chance to be one. We believe that conferences are better -- and, dare we say, more diverse -- when the people speaking are not just the people who can afford to get themselves there, either because their company paid or they foot the bill themselves. Basically, this isn't a rock show rider, it's some ideas that should help get the voices of lesser known folks heard.

These expectations should serve as a starting point for discussion between speaker and organizer. They are not a list of demands; they are a list of rea

@cjheath
cjheath / datol.cxx
Created July 19, 2012 06:52
Conversion of year/month/day to day since epoch, and back (with weekday)
#define OFFS -306 /* Offset to epoch-day (Day 1 is 1/1/0001) */
#define WD 0L /* Day of week offset */
/*
* datol: takes a YMD date, and returns the number of days since some base
* date (in the very distant past).
*
* Handy for getting date of x number of days before/after a given date.
* A date is valid if ltodate() yields the same YMD you started with.
*
@piscisaureus
piscisaureus / pr.md
Created August 13, 2012 16:12
Checkout github pull requests locally

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

@pda
pda / query_spy.rb
Created September 3, 2012 04:05
QuerySpy for counting ActiveRecord queries, asserting against n+1 regressions.
# An SQL query spy derived from the perhaps deprecated SQLCounter
# in ActiveRecord::TestCase and/or activerecord/test/cases/helper.rb
class QuerySpy
# Returns the number of queries executed by yielding the given block.
# Examples:
#
# QuerySpy.count { get "/things" }.should == 1
#
# create_a_thing
@irace
irace / BIWebViewDelegate.m
Created September 10, 2012 02:51
JavaScript/native bridge for iOS's UIWebView
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
NSString *urlString = [[request URL] absoluteString];
if ([urlString hasPrefix:@"js:"]) {
NSString *jsonString = [[[urlString componentsSeparatedByString:@"js:"] lastObject]
stringByReplacingPercentEscapes];
NSData *jsonData = [jsonString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSError *error;
@joho
joho / deploy.rb
Created September 13, 2012 01:30
How to serve emergency "signed out" views from page cache without affecting signed in users in rails.
set :path_to_repo, "/path_to_repo/"
set :running_app_user, "appusername"
namespace :webscale do
desc "Cache a signed out version of the path. Usage: cap webscale:signed_out_cache_page -s path_to_cache=/films/on_netflix"
task :signed_out_cache, roles: :app do
cache_base_path = "#{path_to_repo}/public/signed_out"
cached_destination_path = "#{cache_base_path}#{path_to_cache}.html"
working_path = "#{cached_destination_path}.tmp"
@josevalim
josevalim / 0_README.md
Created September 13, 2012 21:52
Sinatra like routes in Rails controllers

Sinatra like routes in Rails controllers

A proof of concept of having Sinatra like routes inside your controllers.

How to use

Since the router is gone, feel free to remove config/routes.rb. Then add the file below to lib/action_controller/inline_routes.rb inside your app.

@tommeier
tommeier / Rakefile
Created September 20, 2012 05:25
Rake Timer
require 'rake_timer'