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  # Detects what server your Rails app is running under.
  # Either passenger, fastcgi, mongrel, webrick or thin

  def running_under
    # For passenger, IN_PHUSION_PASSENGER is key
    is_passenger = (defined?(IN_PHUSION_PASSENGER) and IN_PHUSION_PASSENGER)
    
    # Not sure about fastcgi, but this should do the trick
    is_fastcgi = (Kernel.const_get('RailsFCGIHandler') if defined?(FCGI)) rescue false
    

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First things first, Dreamhost can be a complete nightmare, so be prepared to loose your sanity over this.

1. I need gem x

Follow the instructions at http://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/RubyGems to make your own gem installation, then add the following to the top of your config/environment.rb

ENV['GEM_PATH'] = "/home/username/.gems:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8"

2. Out of date RedCloth

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# Simple script to consolidate multiple colloquy transcripts into a single HTML log
# 
# Reads from logs/*.colloquyTranscript
# Outputs to out.html
# 
# Have multiple logs of conversations with a user who uses multiple nicknames 
# in colloquy, each in separate files?
#
# Well here is the solution. Now you'll never get confused over which important 
# piece of information is in which transcript ever again, as it will all be 

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# Simple script to parse dates of Barcamp events from barcamp.org
#
# Outputs to barcamp.ics
#

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'fileutils'
require 'date'
require 'time'

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## 
# Calendar helper with proper events
# http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/webdev/making-a-real-calendar-in-rails/
#
# (C) 2009 James S Urquhart (jamesu at gmail dot com)
# Derived from calendar_helper
# (C) Jeremy Voorhis, Geoffrey Grosenbach, Jarkko Laine, Tom Armitage, Bryan Larsen
# Licensed under MIT. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
##

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## 
# Posting stuff to EchoWaves using httparty
#
# Note: protect_from_forgery needs to be disabled
## 

require 'httparty'

class Echowaves

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# Allows embedded YouTube videos in EchoWaves. 
# Simply replace mark_up in app/helpers/messages_helper.rb with the following
# NOTE: Ignores the rest of the message with the YT url in it, so ideally needs to be merged with the line splitting conversion of url's.

  def mark_up(message)
    return message.message if message.system_message == true # no markup for system_messages
    
    content = message.message
    
    # Youtube?

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#!/bin/bash

REMOTE_HOST='whatever'
USERNAME='whatever'

git push origin master && ssh ${REMOTE_HOST} "cd /home/${USERNAME}/www/rails;git pull origin master;chown -R ${USERNAME}:${USERNAME} *"

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//
//  MYAnimationView.h
//  http://www.cuppadev.co.uk/iphone/animated-images-on-the-iphone-sans-memory-leaks
//
//  A UIView control which animates an image by simply transforming a slide image
//  containing frames of the animation inside a clipped subview.
//  (in other words, like a flip book except instead of flipping pages, 
//   you move them around in a viewport)
//
//  Requirements:

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# Some people have been emailing me complaining that my calendar_helper code 
# (http://gist.github.com/54116) doesn't work properly. 
#
# So for all of you who can't perform a little bit of problem solving to get the code working correctly in your app, here is the code as used in a fork of RuckSack.
# Enjoy. 

#==
# Copyright (C) 2009 James S Urquhart
# 
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person