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RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.before(:suite) do
    DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:truncation)
  end

  config.before(:each) do
    DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction
  end

  config.before(:each, js: true) do

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def dates_to_time(date_string, created_at)
  if date_string[/[0-9]+/].blank?
    # there aren't any numbers in it
    return 0
  else
    # there's at least one number to derive date from
    if date_string[/\'(\d){2}/].present?
      # uses Month '14 for example
      matched_year = date_string[/\'(\d){2}/]
      # extrapolate the decade from when this record was created

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Git-Flow Cheatsheet

References

• Detailed Cheatsheet: http://danielkummer.github.io/git-flow-cheatsheet/
• Command-line Arguments Reference: https://github.com/nvie/gitflow/wiki/Command-Line-Arguments
• git-flow Home: https://github.com/nvie/gitflow

Initialize a Repository for git-flow

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

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require 'open-uri'

module SocialUtils

  def self.get_facebook_shares(url)
  	f = open("http://graph.facebook.com/?id=#{url}")
		response = f.read()
		shares = JSON.parse(response)['shares']
		return shares.nil? ? 0 : JSON.parse(response)['shares']
	end

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Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

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$ rails g model StreamzooPhotos url:string

##lib/tasks/streamzoo.rake
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

namespace :streamzoo do
  
  desc "refresh thumbnails"
  task :update_thumbs => :environment do

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=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

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def smiley(str)
 str = str.sub(':)', "<img src='/images/emoticons/1.gif' alt='smile'/>")
 str = str.sub(':(', "<img src='/images/emoticons/2.gif' alt='sad'/>")
 str = str.sub(';)', "<img src='/images/emoticons/3.gif' alt='wink'/>")
 str = str.sub(':D', "<img src='/images/emoticons/4.gif' alt='grin'/>")
 str = str.sub(':P', "<img src='/images/emoticons/5.gif' alt='tongue'/>")
end

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## Think Geek Code (controller) [ruby] 

def thinkGeek

  require 'rss'

  rss = RSS::Parser.parse(open('http://www.thinkgeek.com/xml/app/wishlist/id/').read, false)
  @output = "" + rss.channel.description + ""
  @output += ""