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## Paranoid Hash.rb
# Alex MacCaw
# info@eribium.org

# Paranoid Hash
# This is so you don't need to validate options on initialize - as you may not require all the options for every method.
# You can validate them as the program runs - so you don't get unexpected nils.
# I still haven't decided whether this is a good idea or not ;)

# class Foo
#   attr_reader :options

## gist:43444
# Installing a Rails Stack on EC2/Ubuntu
# based on ami-1c5db975 - see http://alestic.com/ for more info.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc mysql-server libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 ruby1.8 subversion rubygems libopenssl-ruby irb rake


## Advanced to_xml.rb
# Advanced to_xml
#
# Alex MacCaw
# info@eribium.org
#
# Provide to_xml support to things like strings,
# so you can now actually do ['foo'].to_xml without
# it throwing an exception.
#
# One gotcha to look out for is Rails calls

## gist:43450
# The first few steps I always make when creating a new Rails app
# Alex MacCaw
# info@eribium.org

# cd home
cd

# Setup your svn repo
svn mkdir your_svn_details/app_name
svn mkdir your_svn_details/app_name/trunk

## twitter.html
<!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 -->

## twitter_binder.rb
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)

## users_binder.rb
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])

## gravatar_fetcher.rb
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)

## app_config.rb
# Simple application config.
# Create a file in config/application.yml
# with the following:
#
# :defaults: &defaults
#   :app_name: MyApp
#
# :development:
#   <<: *defaults
#

## valid_browser.rb
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:
	# Alex MacCaw
	# info@eribium.org

	# Paranoid Hash
	# This is so you don't need to validate options on initialize - as you may not require all the options for every method.
	# You can validate them as the program runs - so you don't get unexpected nils.
	# I still haven't decided whether this is a good idea or not ;)

	# class Foo
	# attr_reader :options
	# Installing a Rails Stack on EC2/Ubuntu
	# based on ami-1c5db975 - see http://alestic.com/ for more info.

	sudo apt-get update
	sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

	sudo apt-get install build-essential

	sudo apt-get install ruby rdoc mysql-server libmysql-ruby ruby1.8-dev irb1.8 libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysql-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl libreadline-ruby1.8 libruby1.8 mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 ruby1.8 subversion rubygems libopenssl-ruby irb rake
	# Advanced to_xml
	#
	# Alex MacCaw
	# info@eribium.org
	#
	# Provide to_xml support to things like strings,
	# so you can now actually do ['foo'].to_xml without
	# it throwing an exception.
	#
	# One gotcha to look out for is Rails calls
	# The first few steps I always make when creating a new Rails app
	# Alex MacCaw
	# info@eribium.org

	# cd home
	cd

	# Setup your svn repo
	svn mkdir your_svn_details/app_name
	svn mkdir your_svn_details/app_name/trunk
	<!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 -->
	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)
	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])
	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)
	# Simple application config.
	# Create a file in config/application.yml
	# with the following:
	#
	# :defaults: &defaults
	# :app_name: MyApp
	#
	# :development:
	# <<: *defaults
	#
	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: