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begin
# check if memcached is running; if it is, use that instead of the default memory cache
Timeout.timeout(0.5) { TCPSocket.open("localhost", 11211) { } }
config.cache_store = :mem_cache_store, %w(localhost:11211), { :namespace => 'OI', :timeout => 60 }
$stderr.puts "Using memcached on localhost:11211"
rescue StandardError
config.cache_store = nil
$stderr.puts "memcached not running, caching to memory"
end
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=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')
@mikhailov
mikhailov / installation.sh
Created November 23, 2010 15:18
nginx+passenger (real production config)
# NOTICE: to get Nginx+Unicorn best-practices configuration see the gist https://gist.github.com/3052776
$ cd /usr/src
$ wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz && rm -f ./nginx-1.2.1.tar.gz
$ wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.30.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf pcre-8.30.tar.gz && rm -f ./pcre-8.30.tar.gz
$ wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1c.tar.gz
@victorbstan
victorbstan / SASS_rouded_corner_mixins.sass
Created March 27, 2011 18:48
SASS cross browser rounded corner mixins
$default_rounded_amount: 5px
// Round corner at position by amount.
@mixin round-corner($position, $amount: $default_rounded_amount)
border-#{$position}-radius: $amount
-webkit-border-#{$position}-radius: $amount
@mixin round-corner-mozilla($position, $amount: $default_rounded_amount)
-moz-border-radius-#{$position}: $amount
// Round left corners by amount
@erichurst
erichurst / database.yml.example mysql2
Created May 9, 2011 02:58
Rails 3 database.yml examples
# MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended.
#
# Install the MySQL driver:
# gem install mysql2
#
# And be sure to use new-style password hashing:
# http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html
development:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8
@joshsusser
joshsusser / gist:998055
Created May 29, 2011 19:20
turn off 255 limit for string fields in postgresql
# in rails application.rb
initializer "postgresql.no_default_string_limit" do
ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
ActiveRecord::ConnectionAdapters::PostgreSQLAdapter::NATIVE_DATABASE_TYPES[:string].delete(:limit)
end
end
@morhekil
morhekil / LICENSE
Last active January 22, 2017 22:12
Implementation of deep symbolization of keys for Ruby hashes
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 Oleg Ivanov http://github.com/morhekil
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
@tomaslin
tomaslin / Pivotal CSV to Trello.groovy
Created October 4, 2011 15:56
This is a groovy file ( http://groovy.codehaus.org/ ) that will import your Pivotal Tracker stories into your Trello board. It works with an empty board and will add stories to the first list.
@Grapes([
@Grab("org.codehaus.geb:geb-core:0.6.0"),
@Grab("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-firefox-driver:2.4.0"),
@Grab("net.sf.opencsv:opencsv:2.0")
])
import geb.Browser
import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.*
def fileLocation = 'secret_escapes_20111004_1436.csv' // the location of your csv file. You can go to your pivotal board and do an export to CSV.
@devpuppy
devpuppy / nokogiri libxml homebrew lion
Created November 8, 2011 23:26
How to fix: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.3, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
FIXME:
WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.7.3, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
or
libxml_ruby.bundle: dlsym(0x10fde1900, Init_libxml_ruby): symbol not found
gem uninstall nokogiri libxml-ruby
brew update
brew uninstall libxml2

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