JosephPecoraro

# Ways to execute a shell script in Ruby
# Example Script - Joseph Pecoraro

cmd = "echo 'hi'" # Sample string that can be used

# 1. Kernel#` - commonly called backticks - `cmd` 
# This is like many other languages, including bash, PHP, and Perl
#   Synchronous (blocking)
#   Returns the output of the shell command
#   Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001111

robbyrussell

namespace :export do
  desc "Export ActiveRecord model records to a CSV file. Pass model name: model=ModelName"
  task :to_csv => :environment do

    require 'exportable'    

    open(RAILS_ROOT + '/log/export.pid', "w") do |file|
      file << Process.pid
    end

henrik

Dezoomify

Ruby + ImageMagick script to stitch Zoomify Viewer tiles into a single image at the maximum zoom level.

Usage

Give the URL of a page that contains the Zoomify Flash viewer, e.g.:

./dezoomify.rb 'http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/ZoomImage.aspx?image=/LotFinderImages/D52792/D5279274'

femoco

  def get_random_string(length=5)
    source=("a".."z").to_a + ("A".."Z").to_a + (0..9).to_a + ["_","-","."]
    key=""
    length.times{ key += source[rand(source.size)].to_s }
    return key
  end

davidphasson

# Doesn't work
	<p>
		<% case @request.author_hosted %>
		<% when "yes" %>
		The school <b>has</b> hosted an author before.
		<% when "no" %>
		The school <b>has not</b> hosted an author before.
		<% end %>
	</p>

njonsson

Someone recently asked the following question in the discussion forum of the Rubyists LinkedIn group: What separates a junior Rails developer from a senior one?

My response follows. Join us at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=120725 to weigh in on this and other topics of interest to Rubyists. As of today there are almost 1,200 members, including numerous movers and shakers in the Ruby and Rails communities.

“Distinguishing between junior and senior people in the Rails world is not so different from making the distinction in other web development environments.

“Junior Rails people have not dealt with scaling issues to the degree that senior people have. Getting a public-facing Rails application to perform under significant stress is more challenging than doing the same with other building materials such as PHP. Senior people know how to performance-test Rails applications, where to look for bottlenecks, and how to eliminate them one after another until performance is acceptable in real conditions. The Ra

pietern

# Author: Pieter Noordhuis
# Description: Simple demo to showcase Redis PubSub with EventMachine
#
# Update 7 Oct 2010:
# - This example does *not* appear to work with Chrome >=6.0. Apparently,
#   the WebSocket protocol implementation in the cramp gem does not work
#   well with Chrome's (newer) WebSocket implementation.
#
# Requirements:
# - rubygems: eventmachine, thin, cramp, sinatra, yajl-ruby

karmi

# Rake task to launch multiple Resque workers in development/production with simple management included

require 'resque/tasks'    # Require Resque tasks

namespace :workers do

  # = $ rake workers:start
  #
  # Launch multiple Resque workers with the Rails environment loaded,
  # so they have access to your models, etc.

georgkreimer

require 'json'
my_json = { :array => [1, 2, 3, { :sample => "hash"} ], :foo => "bar" }
puts JSON.pretty_generate(my_json)
Which gets you...

{
  "array": [
    1,
    2,
    3,

teepark

import bisect
import itertools
import operator


class _BNode(object):
    __slots__ = ["tree", "contents", "children"]

    def __init__(self, tree, contents=None, children=None):
        self.tree = tree