jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

metaskills

# WAIT! Do consider that `wait` may not be needed. This article describes
# that reasoning. Please read it and make informed decisions.
# https://www.varvet.com/blog/why-wait_until-was-removed-from-capybara/

# Have you ever had to sleep() in Capybara-WebKit to wait for AJAX and/or CSS animations?

describe 'Modal' do
  
  should 'display login errors' do
    visit root_path

dnagir

# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

peternixey

##How Homakov hacked GitHub and the line of code that could have prevented it

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Please note: THIS ARTICLE IS NOT WRITTEN BY THE GITHUB TEAM or in any way associated with them. It's simply hosted as a Gist because the markdown formatting is excellent and far clearer than anything I could manage on my personal Tumblr at peternixey.com.

If you'd like to follow me on twitter my handle is @peternixey

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defunkt

# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html

Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.

When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes.  Hell yes.  Immediately.  But
then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why?  Why me?  What am I supposed
to say that's interesting?  Something about Ruby, perhaps.  Maybe the
future of it.  The future of something, at least.  That sounds
keynote-y.

jrochkind

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

gwillem

# Add this snippet to the top of your playbook. 
# It will install python2 if missing (but checks first so no expensive repeated apt updates)
# gwillem@gmail.com

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: False
  
  tasks:
  - name: install python 2
    raw: test -e /usr/bin/python || (apt -y update && apt install -y python-minimal)

vvalgis

set :rails_env, :production
set :unicorn_binary, "/usr/bin/unicorn"
set :unicorn_config, "#{current_path}/config/unicorn.rb"
set :unicorn_pid, "#{current_path}/tmp/pids/unicorn.pid"

namespace :deploy do
  task :start, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do 
    run "cd #{current_path} && #{try_sudo} #{unicorn_binary} -c #{unicorn_config} -E #{rails_env} -D"
  end
  task :stop, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do 

mikhailov

# NOTICE: to get Nginx+Unicorn best-practices configuration see the gist https://gist.github.com/3052776

  $ cd /usr/src
  $ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz && rm -f ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz

  $ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.30.tar.gz
  $ tar xzvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz && rm -f ./pcre-8.30.tar.gz

  $ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz