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# config/initializers/inflections.rb
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.singular(/^(.*ss)$/i, '\1')
end

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# I always manage to end up with different capitalizations on artist names, 
# which causes some mp3 players to see them as different artists. 
# So I use ruby-mp3info to rename them
#   gem install ruby-mp3info

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruby-mp3info'
# in the directory of the artist, with albums as subdirectories (change as needed)
files = Dir['*/*.mp3']
files.each do |f|

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# I use this to find double words in a text file
# for example, "Give it to the kid." gets typoed as "Give it the the kid."
# this regex will find "the the" and help me track down those double word typos

egrep '(\b\w+)\s\1\b' *.txt --color -n

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// a simpler version in javascript that actually zero-pads numbers in
// the strings so we can sort properly
// this one uses underscore.js, but you get the picture
// in this example, we have a bunch of text_document objects to sort
sorted = _(text_documents).sortBy(
  // the zero padding is to make "Chap 9" come before "Chap 10"
  function(td) { return [td.name.replace(/\d+/, function(m) { return zeroPad(m, 99) } )]; }
);

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  # get rid of weird characters from pasting from Word and stuff
  def cleanup(text)
    if text
      text.
        gsub(/&/, '&').
        gsub(/&[lr]?quot;/, '"').
        gsub(/'/, "'").
        gsub(/'/, "'").
        gsub(/>/, '>').
        gsub(/&lt;/, '<').