gilesbowkett

if building command-line @posterous clients, write "signature" feature which links to the blog auto-posted from (make it visible only on @posterous by including simple JavaScript)

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namespace :myapp do
  def invoke(tasks) # did I really need to write this method? aargh
    tasks.each {|t| Rake::Task[t].invoke}
  end

  desc "dump everything (in order to re-seed)"
  task :renew do
    invoke(%w{db:drop db:create db:migrate})
  end
end

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$().ready(function() {
  $("<style type='text/css'>.trends-inner{ display: none }</style>").appendTo("head");
  $("<style type='text/css'>p.promo{ display: none }</style>").appendTo("head");
});

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gem_src() {
  pushd ~/.rvm/gems/`rvm-prompt | sed -e s/\@/\\\\\@/`/gems
} 

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#!/opt/local/bin/ruby

# supa primitive script to access today's journal entry text file

now = Time.now
month = now.month.to_s
month = "0" + month if month.to_i < 10
day = now.mday.to_s
day = "0" + day if day.to_i < 10
date = month + day + now.year.to_s[2,3]

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  1 class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  2   attr_accessible :password, :password_confirmation
  3 
  4   def passwd=(new_pass)
  5     self.password = self.password_confirmation = new_pass
  6   end
  7 end
  8 
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 49   def deprecate name, repl, year, month
 50     class_eval {
 51       old = "_deprecated_#{name}"
 52       alias_method old, name
 53       define_method name do |*args, &block| # TODO: really works on 1.8.7?
 54         klass = self.kind_of? Module
 55         target = klass ? "#{self}." : "#{self.class}#"
 56         msg = [ "NOTE: #{target}#{name} is deprecated",
 57                 repl == :none ? " with no replacement" : ", use #{repl}",
 58                 ". It will be removed on or after %4d-%02d-01." % [year, month],

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  1 $().ready(function() {
  2   // don't show me trending topics
  3   $("<style type='text/css'>.trends-inner{ display: none }</style>").appendTo("head");
  4 
  5   // don't show me promoted tweets
  6   $("<style type='text/css'>p.promo{ display: none }</style>").appendTo("head");
  7 
  8   // don't recommend that I follow anybody
  9   $("<style type='text/css'>.user-rec-component{ display: none }</style>").appendTo("head");
 10 

gilesbowkett

<airbook:giles> [06-10 16:05] ruby-1.8.7-p334
 ↪  bundle install
You can no longer specify a git source by itself. Instead, 
either use the :git option on a gem, or specify the gems that 
bundler should find in the git source by passing a block to 
the git method, like: 

  git 'git://github.com/rails/rails.git' do
    gem 'rails'
  end

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  1 class LegacyParent < LegacyBase
  2   set_table_name :widgets
  3 
  4   # in order to differentiate subclasses in the migrations, we need to be able to get at them
  5   # via ActiveRecord finders and their "type" attributes. that means we have to tell ActiveRecord
  6   # that the type attribute isn't off-limits, which it seems we have to do by telling it we
  7   # have some other attribute used for STI inheritance instead 
  8   set_inheritance_column :fake_column_name
  9   def map
 10     puts :wtf