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module DickCheney
  def self.speak
    puts "meeeh..."
  end
end

DickCheney.speak
# => meeeh...

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# From the OpenURI documentation

open("http://www.ruby-lang.org/en") {|f|
  f.each_line {|line| p line}
  p f.base_uri         # <URI::HTTP:0x40e6ef2 URL:http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/>
  p f.content_type     # "text/html"
  p f.charset          # "iso-8859-1"
  p f.content_encoding # []
  p f.last_modified    # Thu Dec 05 02:45:02 UTC 2002
}

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# From the RestClient documentation

RestClient.get 'http://example.com/resource'
RestClient.get 'https://user:password@example.com/private/resource'

RestClient.post 'http://example.com/resource', :param1 => 'one', :nested => { :param2 => 'two' }

RestClient.delete 'http://example.com/resource'

# ActiveResource-Style

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begin
  response = RestClient.get("http://cupcakestastegood.com")
			
# Net::HTTP connection error	
rescue Errno::ECONNREFUSED => error
  p "This error has no response body: #{e}"
		
# RestClient exceptions	
rescue RestClient::Exception => error_response
  p "This error is actually a response body"

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# Both of these examples are taken from John's examples

require 'httparty'

# Basic usage
# You can also use post, put, delete in the same fashion

response = HTTParty.get('http://twitter.com/statuses/public_timeline.json')
puts response.body, response.code, response.message, response.headers.inspect

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require 'rubygems'
require 'httparty'

# authority = [ userinfo "@" ] host [ ":" port ]
# http://labs.apache.org/webarch/uri/rfc/rfc3986.html#authority  
  
module HTTPartyHarder
  attr_accessor :authority

  def authority

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# http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/249436
class Array
  def each_cycle(window, start=0)
    (start...length+start).each do |i|
      yield((i..i+window).map {|n| self[n % length]})
    end
  end
end

# Something a little more complicated from

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# http://blog.craigambrose.com/articles/2007/03/01/a-rake-task-for-database-backups
# http://edge.matrixprojects.com/2008/5/21/backing-up-your-rails-mysql-db-via-a-rake-task
require 'find' 

namespace :db do  desc "Backup the database to a file. Options: DIR=base_dir RAILS_ENV=production MAX=20"
  task :backup => [:environment] do
    
    datestamp     = Time.now.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")    
    base_path     = ENV["DIR"] || "db"
    backup_base   = File.join(base_path, 'backup')

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# There really is no need for this class. One could use java.util.Properties in JRuby, 
# but figuring out how to use it from JRuby was more cumbersome than just writing this class.

# Parser stolen from
# http://devender.wordpress.com/2006/05/01/reading-and-writing-java-property-files-with-ruby/

class JavaProperties < Hash
  attr_accessor :file

  # Takes a file and loads the properties in that file

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#!/bin/sh

LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
SVN=`which svn`

echo Changing to Bundles directory...
mkdir -p /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles
cd /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles

if [ -d /Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/	Erlang.tmbundle ]; then