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jwood / application.html.erb
Last active March 15, 2021 16:03
Disable animations
<!-- app/views/layouts/application.html.erb -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<!-- ... -->
<% if Rails.application.config.disable_animations %>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag('disable_animations') %>
<!-- Turn off animations in jQuery -->
<script>$.fx.off = true;</script>
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jwood / simulate_laggy_response.rb
Created April 10, 2015 12:59
after_filter -> { sleep(0.25) }
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jwood / campfire_audio_notification.user.js
Created March 25, 2011 02:10
Enable audio notifications via Campfire
// ==UserScript==
// @name Campfire Audio Notification
// @namespace http://johnpwood.net
// @description Play a sound when a message is received from a specific user or when it contains a specific word.
// @author John Wood
// @homepage http://johnpwood.net
// @include *.campfirenow.com/room*
// ==/UserScript==
try { if ( typeof(Campfire) != "undefined" ) {
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jwood / questions.rake
Created July 13, 2015 14:03
Example of rake task that migrates production data
namespace :question do
desc "Update Questions and Tasks to support newly added validations"
task :update_for_validations => :environment do
ActiveRecord::Base.transaction do
# Set question_type to "yesno" for following questions:
%w(need_long_term_rental need_short_term_rental find_eye_doctor cleaning need_home).each do |identifier|
q = Question.find_by_identifier(identifier)
q.update_attributes!(question_type: "yesno") if q.present?
end
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jwood / capssh_usage
Created April 19, 2013 15:47
capssh Usage
# SSH to one of the production servers
capssh -e production
# Shortcut for SSHing into one of the production servers
capssh production
# SSH to the production server that is in the db role
capssh -e production -r db
# If you only have one server defined, you can connect to it by simply running capssh
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jwood / gist:1261c2b4fbd1451d8a02
Created October 6, 2015 15:22
Installing cocaine 0.5.7
Installing crack 0.4.2
Installing chronic 0.10.2
Installing hitimes 1.2.2 with native extensions
Installing bourbon 4.2.3
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jwood / proby.php
Created June 25, 2012 13:56
Sending Proby notifications using PHP
<?php
$PROBY_API_KEY = 'secret';
function do_post_request($url, $data, $headers) {
$postdata = http_build_query($data);
$header_string = "";
foreach ($headers as $key => $value) {
$header_string .= $key . ": " . $value . "\n";
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jwood / fade.sh
Created October 21, 2011 19:23
Slowly delete a file by truncating it by a small amount every half second until the file is eventually deleted
#!/bin/bash
#
# DESCRIPTION
# Slowly delete a file by truncating it by a small amount every half second
# until the file is eventually deleted. This should prevent the system from
# freaking out when attempting to delete a single, large file.
#
# USAGE
# fade.sh <file>
#
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jwood / proby
Created October 17, 2011 16:32
Proby command line wrapper script
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script surrounds the command passed in with start and finish notifications
# to the Proby task monitoring application.
#
#
# === SETUP
#
# * Make sure the proby script is executable.
#
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jwood / clear-log-files.sh
Created July 14, 2011 18:11
Script to clear out log files in development project directores
#!/bin/bash
dev_dir=/Users/jwood/dev
for d in `ls $dev_dir`; do
test -d $dev_dir/$d/log
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
for f in `ls $dev_dir/$d/log/*.log`; do
> $f
done