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maccman / twitter.html
Created January 10, 2009 15:47
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>twitter</title>
<meta name="generator" content="TextMate http://macromates.com/">
<meta name="author" content="Alex MacCaw">
<!-- Date: 2009-01-10 -->
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maccman / twitter_binder.rb
Created January 10, 2009 15:48
class TwitterBinder < Binder::Collection
class << self
# What about filters - should they be implemented?
#
# I also feel this is lacking 'views'.
# There should be a view for the index, and the login
# There should also be an easy api in ruby/js for switching views
def index
self.items = twit.timeline(:user)
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maccman / users_binder.rb
Created January 10, 2009 19:23
class UsersBinder < Binder::Collection
class << self
# self.items is a special method
# Basically it'll update users on the client side
def index
self.items = User.all
end
# def index(offset)
# self.items = User.all(:conditions => ['id > ?', offset])
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maccman / gravatar_fetcher.rb
Created January 14, 2009 12:14
require 'digest/sha1'
require 'net/http'
class GravatarFetcher
# Gravatar is a bit stupid, in that there's
# no way to tell if they're returning the default
# avatar - here's a hack to do that.
class << self
def fetch(email, size=60)
email_hash = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(email)
http = Net::HTTP.new("www.gravatar.com", 80)
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maccman / app_config.rb
Created January 16, 2009 14:16
# Simple application config.
# Create a file in config/application.yml
# with the following:
#
# :defaults: &defaults
# :app_name: MyApp
#
# :development:
# <<: *defaults
#
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maccman / valid_browser.rb
Created February 27, 2009 12:43
module ValidBrowser
# Browser restrictor
#
# You can choose whether to just display a warning,
# or disable access completely.
#
# You need to include ValidBrowser in application.rb
# You also need to install the UserAgent plugin - http://github.com/josh/useragent
#
# Example 1 - show warning:
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maccman / after_commit.rb
Created March 10, 2009 11:51
module AfterCommit
def self.included(base)
base.class_eval do
[:save, :save!].each do |method|
alias_method_chain method, :after_commit
end
end
base.define_callbacks :after_commit, :after_commit_on_create
end
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maccman / processor.rb
Created April 2, 2009 10:30
require 'fileutils'
class Processor
LOG_DIR = File.join(Rails.root, 'log')
class Daemon
PID_DIR = File.join(Rails.root, 'tmp', 'pids')
class << self
def daemonize!(name)
fork do
Process.setsid
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maccman / processors
Created April 2, 2009 10:31
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../config/environment'
def start_processor(queue)
puts "Starting #{queue} processor..."
klass = queue.to_s.camelize.constantize
klass.start!(true)
end
def stop_processor(queue)
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maccman / attr_protected.rb
Created April 8, 2009 15:47
module ActiveRecord
class Base
private
def attributes_protected_by_default
default = [ self.class.primary_key, self.class.inheritance_column ]
default.concat ['created_at', 'created_on', 'updated_at', 'updated_on']
default << 'id' unless self.class.primary_key.eql? 'id'
default
end
end