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@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// A short snippet for detecting versions of IE in JavaScript
// without resorting to user-agent sniffing
// ----------------------------------------------------------
// If you're not in IE (or IE version is less than 5) then:
// ie === undefined
// If you're in IE (>=5) then you can determine which version:
// ie === 7; // IE7
// Thus, to detect IE:
// if (ie) {}
anonymous
anonymous / gist:1406238
Created November 29, 2011 20:09
Originally:
https://gist.github.com/7565976a89d5da1511ce
Hi Donald (and Martin),
Thanks for pinging me; it's nice to know Typesafe is keeping tabs on this, and I
appreciate the tone. This is a Yegge-long response, but given that you and
Martin are the two people best-situated to do anything about this, I'd rather
err on the side of giving you too much to think about. I realize I'm being very
critical of something in which you've invested a great deal (both financially
@gcatlin
gcatlin / gist:1847248
Created February 16, 2012 19:43
Install specific version of Homebrew formula
brew update
brew versions FORMULA
cd `brew --prefix`
git checkout HASH Library/Formula/FORMULA.rb # use output of "brew versions"
brew install FORMULA
brew switch FORMULA VERSION
git checkout -- Library/Formula/FORMULA.rb # reset formula
## Example: Using Subversion 1.6.17
#
@1wErt3r
1wErt3r / SMBDIS.ASM
Created November 9, 2012 22:27
A Comprehensive Super Mario Bros. Disassembly
;SMBDIS.ASM - A COMPREHENSIVE SUPER MARIO BROS. DISASSEMBLY
;by doppelganger (doppelheathen@gmail.com)
;This file is provided for your own use as-is. It will require the character rom data
;and an iNES file header to get it to work.
;There are so many people I have to thank for this, that taking all the credit for
;myself would be an unforgivable act of arrogance. Without their help this would
;probably not be possible. So I thank all the peeps in the nesdev scene whose insight into
;the 6502 and the NES helped me learn how it works (you guys know who you are, there's no
@amitchhajer
amitchhajer / Count Code lines
Created January 5, 2013 11:08
Count number of code lines in git repository per user
git ls-files -z | xargs -0n1 git blame -w | perl -n -e '/^.*\((.*?)\s*[\d]{4}/; print $1,"\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c | sort -n
@maxim
maxim / rails_load_path_tips.md
Last active April 13, 2023 13:28
How to use rails load paths, app, and lib directories.

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

@Karlotcha
Karlotcha / gist:7083263
Created October 21, 2013 12:42
Tail call recursion - Fibonacci
# tail call optimization
RubyVM::InstructionSequence.compile_option = {:tailcall_optimization => true,:trace_instruction => false}
# Fibonacci sequence
def fib(n,tail,tail2)
return 1 if n == 1
return 1 if n == 2
return tail + tail2 if n == 3
fib(n-1, tail2, tail+tail2)
end
@skwp
skwp / dynamic_method_spec.rb
Created December 7, 2013 00:44
Fail your build for user-defined style rules.
require 'spec/support/grep_matcher'
describe do
disallow_presence_of pattern: "send(.*#",
location: "app/",
description: "Do not use dynamic method invocations",
failure: "Please change dynamic method call to something more sane."
end
@mezis
mezis / deploy.rb.diff
Created January 21, 2014 13:23
Restart servers in a staggered manner.
diff --git i/config/deploy.rb w/config/deploy.rb
index 73fc910..594322c 100644
--- i/config/deploy.rb
+++ w/config/deploy.rb
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ end
desc 'restart'
deploy.task :restart, :roles => :web do
- run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"
+ run "bash -c 'sleep $(( $RANDOM / 100 ))' ; date ; touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"