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cdmwebs / friendly_urls.markdown
Created September 11, 2011 15:50 — forked from jcasimir/friendly_urls.markdown
Friendly URLs in Rails

Friendly URLs

By default, Rails applications build URLs based on the primary key -- the id column from the database. Imagine we have a Person model and associated controller. We have a person record for Bob Martin that has id number 6. The URL for his show page would be:

/people/6

But, for aesthetic or SEO purposes, we want Bob's name in the URL. The last segment, the 6 here, is called the "slug". Let's look at a few ways to implement better slugs.

@jimbojsb
jimbojsb / gist:1630790
Created January 18, 2012 03:52
Code highlighting for Keynote presentations

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

@jeffreyiacono
jeffreyiacono / Rakefile
Created February 8, 2012 20:15
rake task for precompiling assets using sprockets within a sinatra app + view helpers
require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
Bundler.require
require './application'
namespace :assets do
desc 'compile assets'
task :compile => [:compile_js, :compile_css] do
end
@sway
sway / fontawesome.sty
Created July 12, 2012 23:14
FontAwesome mapping for XeLaTeX
% FontAwesome (http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/) bindings for (Xe)LaTeX
% Author: Honza Ustohal <honza@egoistic.biz>
%
% Translation of FontAwesome's private range characters into XeTeX symbols. All icons are camel-cased and prefixed with 'fa', i.e. what was .icon-align-center the CSS version of FontAwesome becomes \faAlignCenter
% This might be reworked into a full blown package in the near future
%
% Prerequisite:
% XeLaTeX, FontAwesome installed as a system font accessible by XeLaTeX
%
% Usage:
@jrusbatch
jrusbatch / AvailablePorts.cs
Created December 5, 2012 02:17
Find an Available Port with C#
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Net;
namespace AvailablePort
{
class Program
@spikegrobstein
spikegrobstein / nginx.conf
Last active September 22, 2023 04:19
nginx config for proxying requests for plex over a hostname-based virtualhost.
upstream plex-upstream {
# change plex-server.example.com:32400 to the hostname:port of your plex server.
# this can be "localhost:32400", for instance, if Plex is running on the same server as nginx.
server plex-server.example.com:32400;
}
server {
listen 80;
# server names for this server.
@selvan
selvan / oauth2-google-refresh-token
Created January 23, 2013 08:42
Geting new access token using refresh token - Google oauth2
### Method 1
gem install oauth2
require 'oauth2'
client = OAuth2::Client.new(GOOGLE_KEY, GOOGLE_SECRET, {:site => 'https://accounts.google.com', :authorize_url => "/o/oauth2/auth", :token_url => "/o/oauth2/token"})
response = OAuth2::AccessToken.from_hash(client, :refresh_token => REFRESH_TOKEN).refresh!
@smoser
smoser / gist:4756561
Last active November 8, 2023 15:20
boot a cloud image in kvm
## Install a necessary packages
$ sudo apt-get install kvm cloud-utils genisoimage
## URL to most recent cloud image of 12.04
$ img_url="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/server/releases/12.04/release"
$ img_url="${img_url}/ubuntu-12.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img"
## download the image
$ wget $img_url -O disk.img.dist
## Create a file with some user-data in it
@nbremer
nbremer / .block
Last active August 14, 2023 23:44
D3.js - Radar Chart or Spider Chart - Adjusted from radar-chart-d3
height: 650
license: mit
@ivanoats
ivanoats / .railsrc
Last active August 11, 2020 09:33 — forked from gringocl/gist:8480696
# .railsrc
-B #Skip Bundle
-T #Skip Test-Unit
-d postgresql #Use postgres