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@wallymathieu
wallymathieu / Automated RubyGem Install
Created September 2, 2011 04:15 — forked from BenHall/Automated RubyGem Install
How to install RubyGems via an automated ruby script
#!c:/ruby/bin/ruby.exe
require 'rubygems'
require 'rubygems/gem_runner'
require 'rubygems/exceptions'
def install(lib)
begin
Gem::GemRunner.new.run ['install', lib]
rescue Gem::SystemExitException => e
end
@emachnic
emachnic / default.rb
Created December 1, 2011 15:29
Chef recipe to write redis.yml on Engine Yard Cloud
# ey-cloud-recipes/cookbooks/redis-yml/recipes/default.rb
if ['app_master', 'app'].include?(node[:instance_role])
redis_instance = node['utility_instances'].find { |instance| instance['name'] == 'redis' }
if redis_instance
node[:applications].each do |app, data|
template "/data/#{app}/shared/config/redis.yml"do
source 'redis.yml.erb'
owner node[:owner_name]

Fibur

Fibur is a library that allows concurrency during Ruby I/O operations without needing to make use of callback systems. Traditionally in Ruby, to achieve concurrency during blocking I/O operations, programmers would make use of Fibers and callbacks. Fibur eliminates the need for wrapping your I/O calls with Fibers and a callback. It allows you to write your blocking I/O calls the way you normally would, and still have concurrent execution during those I/O calls.

Example

Say you have a method that fetches data from a network resource:

@trongthanh
trongthanh / gist:2779392
Last active April 24, 2024 23:46
How to move a folder from one repo to another and keep its commit history
# source: http://st-on-it.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-move-folders-between-git.html
# First of all you need to have a clean clone of the source repository so we didn't screw the things up.
git clone git://server.com/my-repo1.git
# After that you need to do some preparations on the source repository, nuking all the entries except the folder you need to move. Use the following command
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter your_dir -- -- all
# This will nuke all the other entries and their history, creating a clean git repository that contains only data and history from the directory you need. If you need to move several folders, you have to collect them in a single directory using the git mv command.
@pitch-gist
pitch-gist / gist:2999707
Created June 26, 2012 22:21
HTML: Simple Maintenance Page
<!doctype html>
<title>Site Maintenance</title>
<style>
body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }
h1 { font-size: 50px; }
body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }
article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }
a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }
a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }
</style>
@kyledrake
kyledrake / gist:3077989
Created July 9, 2012 18:14
Ruby code for doing P12 to PEM conversion via command line. Supports MRI/JRuby/Rubinius
require 'tempfile'
require 'openssl'
require 'escape' # gem install escape
class CommandFailError < StandardError; end
def p12_to_pem_text(p12, pass='')
pass = '' if pass.nil?
# Use shell command for JRuby (see https://github.com/jruby/jruby-ossl/issues/8)
@leemour
leemour / Devise HAML views
Created May 26, 2013 12:43
Convert generated Devise ERB views to HAML
rails g devise:views
gem install html2haml
for file in app/views/devise/**/*.erb; do html2haml -e $file ${file%erb}haml && rm $file; done
gem install haml2slim
for file in app/views/devise/**/*.haml; do haml2slim $file ${file%haml}slim && rm $file; done
@ashrithr
ashrithr / kafka.md
Last active March 14, 2024 21:16
kafka introduction

Introduction to Kafka

Kafka acts as a kind of write-ahead log (WAL) that records messages to a persistent store (disk) and allows subscribers to read and apply these changes to their own stores in a system appropriate time-frame.

Terminology:

  • Producers send messages to brokers
  • Consumers read messages from brokers
  • Messages are sent to a topic
@SabretWoW
SabretWoW / rspec_model_testing_template.rb
Last active May 28, 2024 17:41
Rails Rspec model testing skeleton & cheat sheet using rspec-rails, shoulda-matchers, shoulda-callbacks, and factory_girl_rails. Pretty much a brain dump of examples of what you can (should?) test in a model. Pick & choose what you like, and please let me know if there are any errors or new/changed features out there. Reddit comment thread: http…
# This is a skeleton for testing models including examples of validations, callbacks,
# scopes, instance & class methods, associations, and more.
# Pick and choose what you want, as all models don't NEED to be tested at this depth.
#
# I'm always eager to hear new tips & suggestions as I'm still new to testing,
# so if you have any, please share!
#
# @kyletcarlson
#
# This skeleton also assumes you're using the following gems:
@chanks
chanks / gist:7585810
Last active February 29, 2024 03:50
Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

Turning PostgreSQL into a queue serving 10,000 jobs per second

RDBMS-based job queues have been criticized recently for being unable to handle heavy loads. And they deserve it, to some extent, because the queries used to safely lock a job have been pretty hairy. SELECT FOR UPDATE followed by an UPDATE works fine at first, but then you add more workers, and each is trying to SELECT FOR UPDATE the same row (and maybe throwing NOWAIT in there, then catching the errors and retrying), and things slow down.

On top of that, they have to actually update the row to mark it as locked, so the rest of your workers are sitting there waiting while one of them propagates its lock to disk (and the disks of however many servers you're replicating to). QueueClassic got some mileage out of the novel idea of randomly picking a row near the front of the queue to lock, but I can't still seem to get more than an an extra few hundred jobs per second out of it under heavy load.

So, many developers have started going straight t