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$ irb
>> require 'date'
=> true
>> {"time" => DateTime.new(2010)} == {"time" => "2010-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
=> false
>> require 'activesupport'
=> true
>> {"time" => DateTime.new(2010)} == {"time" => "2010-01-01T00:00:00Z"}
=> true

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# Put this in lib/current_controller_and_action.rb

module Padrino
  module Rendering
    module InstanceMethods
    private
      # Override render to store the current template being rendered so we can refer to it in the view
      # This works with Padrino >= 0.9.10
      def render(engine, data=nil, options={}, locals={}, &block)
        # If engine is a hash then render data converted to json

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require 'pp'
module Kernel
  class LoggerAppender
    include Singleton
    def <<(msg)
      RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.send(:buffer) << (msg || "")
      RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.send(:auto_flush)
      msg
    end
  end

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#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# config/application.rb
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)
require 'rails/all'
Bundler.require(:default, Rails.env) if defined?(Bundler)

# Bring in the Railtie that will set Rails' various logger variables to
# instances of Logging::Logger instead of Rails' built-in ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.

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Everyone is familiar with db:migrate, db:drop, db:create, and db:seed. What about some of the other database-related Rake tasks? It turns out that some of them are combinations of others:

• db:setup = db:create + db:schema:load + db:seed
• db:reset = db:drop + db:setup
• db:migrate:reset = db:drop + db:create + db:migrate (= db:reset - db:seed)
• db:test:purge = dependent on adapter but basically db:drop + db:create [as test]
• db:test:load = db:test:purge + db:schema:load [as test]
• db:test:prepare = db:test:load [by default]

If you use the trick in , then the :test tasks aren't necessary and it reduces the list to:

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SimpleForm::Components::Wrapper.module_eval do
  def input_html_classes
    [input_type, required_class]
  end

  def wrapper_html_options
    input_html_classes << SimpleForm.wrapper_class
    if options[:wrapper_class]
      input_html_classes += options[:wrapper_class].split(" ")
    end

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In Rails 2, if you wanted to define a named date/time format, the conventional way was to make an initializer which would modify the DATE_FORMATS hash that ActiveSupport mixed into Date and Time:

# config/initializers/date_and_time_formats.rb
def military_hour_to_civil_hour(hour)
  mod = (hour % 12)
  mod + (12 * (mod > 0 ? 0 : 1))
end

Date::DATE_FORMATS[:std] = lambda {|d| "#{d.month}/#{d.day}/#{d.year}" }

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"Why replace Compass?" you ask. "Everyone likes Compass. Compass is nice! It provides helpful CSS3 mixins, and it makes life generally easier for the Sass developer."

True, but have you ever looked at the Compass source code? I dare you to figure out how Compass initializes itself, how it parses your configuration file, and how it ties into Rails. You will quickly find that it's an absolute nightmare. There's a Compass::Compiler class which wraps Sass::Plugin::Compiler. Why? I have no clue. There is really no need for Compass, except that it provides an abstraction around Sass for different frameworks. A lot of the stuff in Compass could be in Sass itself!

The other thing that's a little frustrating (and this is more about Sass than Compass) is that paths are too closely tied together. In Sass there are two arrays: the template location array, where you tell Sass where your .sass or .scss files are and where they should end up when they are compiled; and the **

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# Much of this was borrowed from:
# http://blogoben.wordpress.com/

mc = {}

gl = null
$canvas = null

_initGL = ->
  canvas = $canvas[0]

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require 'mustache'

class Mustache
  class Parser
    # Override so that after we parse the initial name, we continue by checking for arguments.
    #
    # This allows you to not only write:
    #
    #   {{foo}}
    #