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All You Zombies

2217 Time Zone V (EST) 7 Nov. 1970--NTC-- "Pop's Place": I was polishing a brandy snifter when the Unmarried Mother came in. I noted the time---10:17 P. M. zone five, or eastern time, November 7th, 1970. Temporal agents always notice time and date; we must.

The Unmarried Mother was a man twenty--five years old, no taller than I am, childish features and a touchy temper. I didn't like his looks---I never had---but he was a lad I was here to recruit, he was my boy. I gave him my best barkeep's smile.

Maybe I'm too critical. He wasn't swish; his nickname came from what he always said when some nosy type asked him his line: "I'm an unmarried mother." If he felt less than murderous he would add: "at four cents a word. I write confession stories."

If he felt nasty, he would wait for somebody to make something of it. He had a lethal style of infighting, like a female cop---reason I wanted him. Not the only one.

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# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
#   http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/

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Mustache.tmbundle

1. Download the zip
2. Open the zip
3. Double click Mustache.tmbundle

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Gist Clients

Want to create a Gist from your editor, the command line, or the Services menu? Here's how.

Editor Support

• TextMate
• Emacs
• Vim
• Coda

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# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.

When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes.  Hell yes.  Immediately.  But
then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why?  Why me?  What am I supposed
to say that's interesting?  Something about Ruby, perhaps.  Maybe the
future of it.  The future of something, at least.  That sounds
keynote-y.

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# unicorn_rails -c /data/github/current/config/unicorn.rb -E production -D

rails_env = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] || 'production'

# 16 workers and 1 master
worker_processes (rails_env == 'production' ? 16 : 4)

# Load rails+github.git into the master before forking workers
# for super-fast worker spawn times
preload_app true

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#!/bin/sh -e
#
# Usage: browser
#        pipe html to a browser
# e.g.
#  $ echo '<h1>hi mom!</h1>' | browser
#  $ ron -5 man/rip.5.ron | browser   

if [ -t 0 ]; then
  if [ -n "$1" ]; then

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(This is the text of the keynote I gave at Startup Riot 2009. Will update when video becomes available.)

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath, and I'm one of the co-founders of GitHub.

GitHub, if you haven't heard of it, has been described as "Facebook for developers." Which is great when talking about GitHub as a website, but not so great when describing GitHub as a business. In fact, I think we're the polar opposite of Facebook as a business: we're small, never took investment, and actually make money. Some have even called us successful.

Which I've always wondered about. Success is very vague, right? Probably even relative. How do you define it?

After thinking for a while I came up with two criteria. The first is profitability. We employ four people full time, one person part time, have thousands of paying customers, and are still growing. In fact, our rate of growth is increasing - which means January was our best month so far, and February is looking pretty damn good.

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require 'mustache'

class Layout < Mustache
  self.template = "Header
{{{yield}}}
Footer"
end

class Index < Mustache
  self.template = "The Index."

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#!/bin/sh -e
# Usage: gem-publish resque.gemspec
# Builds and publishes a RubyGem.

GEM=`gem build $1 2> /dev/null | grep File: | sed -e 's/File://'`
gem push $GEM
rm $GEM