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# Note to self: Normally to turn off ActiveRecord timestamps you would set:
# ActiveRecord::Base.record_timestamps = false
# in the configuration. Timestamp.rb uses class_inheritable_accessor to copy that
# value for each AR model. So to change it at runtime (ex. tests) it needs to be
# accessed through the class directly.
 
myobj.class.record_timestamps = false

# Set timestamp manually to simulate old objects

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#!/bin/sh

# Sets up auto-tracking of a remote branch with same base name.
# Can set up "git track" so it feels built-in:
# git config --global --add alias.track '!git-track' 
#
branch=$(git branch 2>/dev/null | grep ^\*)
[ x$1 != x ] && tracking=$1 || tracking=${branch/* /}

git config branch.$tracking.remote origin 

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#!/bin/sh

# Append the current Lighthouse ticket number to the commit message automatically
# when you use <ticket_number>_* branch naming convention (ex. "777_lucky_branch").
# Inspired by: http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2009/02/16/git-commit-msg-for-lighthouse-tickets
#
# Drop into .git/hooks/commit-msg
# chmod +x .git/hooks/commit-msg

commit_message=$1

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// The situation: Need to dynamically load a Javascript file ("ad.js") from 
// a 3rd party that displays an ad into a certain div. 
// The ad javascript basically does this (in reality with an iframe):
// document.write("<b>Click on the ad!</b>");
//
// This is trivial to incorporate in static HTML, but I had a hell of a time
// getting it to work when the page was being constructed dynamically (from the
// results of fetching JSON using AJAX.) Things that I would have thought
// would work resulted in stomping on the *entire* page body with the results
// from the ad. (It appeared like the document.write in the ad JS was re-writing the

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Dan Pickett, http://en.oreilly.com/rails2009/profile/46469

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#!/bin/sh

git remote prune origin

branch_list=$(git branch -r | grep -v HEAD | grep -v master | sed s:origin/::)

until [ -z "$1" ]
do
  branch_list=$(echo "$branch_list" | grep -v $1)
  shift

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require 'sinatra'

class DatabaseStreamer
  def initialize(blob)
    @blob = blob
  end
  def each
    while chunk = @blob.read(4096)
      yield chunk
    end

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Deploying a Rails App with EC2 + S3 + Ubuntu
============================================

Create EC2 Instance
-------------------

    create new instance ami-bf5eb9d6 [http://alestic.com/](http://alestic.com/)
    create new elastic ip
    attach elastic ip to instance
    point dns to elastic ip

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HOWTO: iPhone AT&T Tethering

In 10 steps:

• Update iTunes to 8.2 via Software Update
• Update your iPhone to the 3.0 release (out today - June 17th)
• Download this dmg and mount it: tethering file
• Enable hidden carrier testing option (in Terminal.app): defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE
• Start up iTunes

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#
# bash completion support for core Git.
#
# Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
# Conceptually based on gitcompletion (http://gitweb.hawaga.org.uk/).
# Distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.
#
# The contained completion routines provide support for completing:
#
#    *) local and remote branch names