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# more examples here: http://blog.codefront.net/2008/01/14/retrying-code-blocks-in-ruby-on-exceptions-whatever/

begin
  retryable( :tries => 2 ) do
    Timeout::timeout(5) do |t|
      xml_string = open( my_url, "User-Agent" => "Firefox/2.0" ).read
    end
  end

rescue Timeout::Error

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# Lighter -- Campfire from the command line
# usage: ruby lighter.rb subdomain "Main Room" macournoyer@gmail
require "rubygems"
require "tinder"
require "readline"
require "highline/import"

class Lighter
  def initialize(room)
    @room = room

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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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require 'mongo_mapper'
require 'spec'
require 'log4r'
require 'versionomy'

# Logger used for logging MongoDB database commands
Log4r::Logger.new('TMP')
Log4r::Logger['TMP'].outputters = Log4r::StdoutOutputter.new(:console)
Log4r::Outputter[:console].formatter  = Log4r::PatternFormatter.new(:pattern => "%m")
Log4r::Logger['TMP'].level = Log4r::DEBUG

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$ ruby test_custom_data.rb 
Loaded suite test_custom_data
Started
.F..
Finished in 0.018501 seconds.

  1) Failure:
test_creating_a_thing_with_a_foo(MyTest) [test_custom_data.rb:58]:
<"--- !ruby/object:Foo \nfirst: 1st\nsecond: 2nd\n"> expected but was
<#<Foo:0x1023a5ce8 @first="1st", @second="2nd">>.

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# Example from Rick Olson's Sparklines middleware
# http://github.com/technoweenie/rack-sparklines/blob/master/lib/rack-sparklines.rb
module Rack
  class Sparklines
    def initialize(app, options = {})
      @app, @options = app, options
    end
 
    def call(env)
      if env['PATH_INFO'][@options[:prefix]] == @options[:prefix]

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In response to all the responses to:

http://twitter.com/rtomayko/status/1155906157

You should never do this in a source file included with your library,
app, or tests:

    require 'rubygems'

The system I use to manage my $LOAD_PATH is not your library/app/tests

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Warden::Manager.serialize_into_session{|user| user.id }
Warden::Manager.serialize_from_session{|id| User.get(id) }
 
Warden::Manager.before_failure do |env,opts|
  # Sinatra is very sensitive to the request method
  # since authentication could fail on any type of method, we need
  # to set it for the failure app so it is routed to the correct block
  env['REQUEST_METHOD'] = "POST"
end
 

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require 'open-uri'

# url dsl -- the ultimate url dsl!
#
# You just can't beat this:
#
#   $ irb -r url_dsl
#   >> include URLDSL
#   => Object
#   >> http://github.com/defunkt.json

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require "rack/openid"
require "warden"

use Rack::OpenID
use Warden::Manager do |manager|
  Warden::Strategies.add(:openid) do
    def authenticate!
      if resp = env["rack.openid.response"]
        case resp.status
        when :success