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defunkt / connection_fix.rb
Created November 19, 2009 20:00
MySQL server has gone away fix
# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
# http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/
@rmanalan
rmanalan / .gems
Created January 25, 2010 20:54
Static websites using Heroku
rack-contrib
rack-rewrite
@jeffrafter
jeffrafter / server.js
Created August 28, 2010 21:37
Twitter OAuth with node-oauth for node.js+express
var express = require('express');
var sys = require('sys');
var oauth = require('oauth');
var app = express.createServer();
var _twitterConsumerKey = "YOURTWITTERCONSUMERKEY";
var _twitterConsumerSecret = "YOURTWITTERCONSUMERSECRET";
function consumer() {
@uasi
uasi / vim.rb
Created November 30, 2010 16:46
Vim formula for Homebrew (EDIT: recent versions of official Homebrew distribution includes one)
require 'formula'
class Vim < Formula
homepage 'http://www.vim.org/'
url 'ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.3.tar.bz2'
head 'https://vim.googlecode.com/hg/'
sha256 '5c5d5d6e07f1bbc49b6fe3906ff8a7e39b049928b68195b38e3e3d347100221d'
version '7.3.682'
def features; %w(tiny small normal big huge) end
@trevorturk
trevorturk / cache_assets.rake
Created January 13, 2011 17:38
rake deploy and rake cache_assets for heroku
desc "cache assets"
task :cache_assets => :environment do
paths = ['public/javascripts/all.js', 'public/stylesheets/all.css']
puts "-----> caching assets..."
paths.each do |path|
puts "-----> #{path}"
end
@danott
danott / modernizr-tests.js
Created March 4, 2011 16:55
Custom Modernizr tests that are useful.
/* modernizr-test.js
* Daniel Ott
* 3 March 2011
* Custom Tests using Modernizr's addTest API
*/
/* iOS
* There may be times when we need a quick way to reference whether iOS is in play or not.
* While a primative means, will be helpful for that.
*/
@nragaz
nragaz / consumer.rb
Created March 22, 2011 17:33
Consumer class to wrap Active Resource for OAuth
# Example usage:
#
# class Account < ActiveResource::Base
# self.site = "http://localhost:3000"
# end
#
# consumer = Consumer.new( user.access_token, Account )
# consumer.find(1) # => equivalent to Account.find(1), but with OAuth
class Consumer
@tekacs
tekacs / show
Created April 20, 2011 17:55
This does something essentially equivalent to showoff.io if you have a publicly facing server...
# Usage: show <local-port> <subdomain>
function show() {
DOMAIN=".tekacs.com"
REMOTE="$2$DOMAIN"
ssh -tR 1080:127.0.0.1:$1 vps "sudo ssh -Nl \$USER -L $REMOTE:80:127.0.0.1:1080 localhost"
}
# These are my notes from the PragProg book on CoffeeScript of things that either
# aren't in the main CS language reference or I didn't pick them up there. I wrote
# them down before I forgot, and put it here for others but mainly as a reference for
# myself.
# assign arguments in constructor to properties of the same name:
class Thingie
constructor: (@name, @url) ->
# is the same as:
@maxschulze
maxschulze / html_aware_truncate_helper.rb
Created June 5, 2011 19:55
HTML Aware truncate for Ruby / Rails using nokogiri
# Source:
# http://blog.madebydna.com/all/code/2010/06/04/ruby-helper-to-cleanly-truncate-html.html
require "rubygems"
require "nokogiri"
module TextHelper
def truncate_html(text, max_length, ellipsis = "...")
ellipsis_length = ellipsis.length