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@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active May 24, 2024 13:07
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@stonehippo
stonehippo / RPi-Dashing-howto.md
Last active October 6, 2021 13:52
Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a dashboard server with Dashing

Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a dashboard server with Dashing

Why the heck did I do this?

I wanted to set up one of my Raspberry Pi's as a data dashboard, pushing sensor data to a web interface that's easy to digest. I decided to use Shopify's Dashing framework. Dashing is based on Sinatra, and is pretty lightweight.

Dashing does require Ruby 1.9.3 to run. In addition, it makes use of the execjs gem, which needs to have a working Javascript interpreter available. Originally, I tried to get therubyracer working, but decided to switch over to Node.js when I ran into roadblocks compiling V8.

One warning: The RPi is a very slow system compared with modern multi-core x86-style systems. It's pretty robust, but compiling all this complex software taxes the system quite a bit. Expect that it's going to take at least half a day to get everything going.

@reidransom
reidransom / gist:6042016
Created July 19, 2013 20:13
Auto-starting VirtualBox VMs on OS X

Auto-starting VirtualBox VMs on OS X

After finding a lot of other posts on the topic that didn't work out for me this one did the trick so I'm reposting for my own sense of self preservation.

Link to original article.

Copy the Virtualbox autostart plist template file to your system's LaunchDaemons folder.

sudo cp \

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/org.virtualbox.vboxautostart.plist \

@SabretWoW
SabretWoW / rspec_model_testing_template.rb
Last active March 7, 2024 03:56
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:
@blacktm
blacktm / install_ruby_rpi.sh
Last active February 28, 2024 23:24
A Bash script to install Ruby on the Raspberry Pi
#!/bin/bash
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Installs Ruby using rbenv/ruby-build on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
#
# Run from the web:
# bash <(curl -s https://gist.githubusercontent.com/blacktm/8302741/raw/install_ruby_rpi.sh)
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Set the Ruby version you want to install
@trianglegrrl
trianglegrrl / ember-cucumber.rb
Last active June 7, 2022 19:37
Testing Ember with Cucumber
# You need some sort of indication that an Ajax transaction exists. jQuery.active doesn't seem to do the
# trick, so we use the following JS (well, we use CoffeeScript, but whatever) that gets inserted into
# our application.
#
#$(function() {
# var body, doc;
# body = $('body');
# doc = $(document);
# doc.ajaxStart(function() {
# return body.addClass('ajax-in-progress').removeClass('ajax-quiet');
@andyjbas
andyjbas / gist:9962218
Last active June 23, 2020 13:33
Disable CSS Animations in Poltergeist & Phantomjs. Phantomjs does not like to wait for animations, and you can run in to nasty test flickers because of it. This pattern will disable animations in test env, and not touch any app code.
# env.rb or spec_helper.rb

Capybara.register_driver :poltergeist do |app|
  opts = {
    extensions: ["#{Rails.root}/features/support/phantomjs/disable_animations.js"] # or wherever
  }

  Capybara::Poltergeist::Driver.new(app, opts)
end
@listochkin
listochkin / node-command-line-options.txt
Created April 17, 2014 11:00
Node V8 GC-related options
--log_gc (Log heap samples on garbage collection for the hp2ps tool.)
type: bool default: false
--expose_gc (expose gc extension)
type: bool default: false
--max_new_space_size (max size of the new generation (in kBytes))
type: int default: 0
--max_old_space_size (max size of the old generation (in Mbytes))
type: int default: 0
--max_executable_size (max size of executable memory (in Mbytes))
type: int default: 0
@samselikoff
samselikoff / future-proof.md
Last active April 21, 2023 17:14
Future-proofing your Ember 1.x code

This post is also on my blog, since Gist doesn't support @ notifications.


Components are taking center stage in Ember 2.0. Here are some things you can do today to make the transition as smooth as possible:

  • Use Ember CLI
  • In general, replace views + controllers with components
  • Only use controllers at the top-level for receiving data from the route, and use Ember.Controller instead of Ember.ArrayController or Ember.ObjectController
  • Fetch data in your route, and set it as normal properties on your top-level controller. Export an Ember.Controller, otherwise a proxy will be generated. You can use Ember.RSVP.hash to simulate setting normal props on your controller.
@marionzualo
marionzualo / benchmark_with_default_arguments.rb
Last active November 7, 2015 18:15
Benchmark keyword arguments, normal arguments and an options hash in Ruby 2.1.5 and 2.2.3. Background: Koichi's talk on the evolution of keyword parameters at Ruby Conf PT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNaXZ1VWuvA. Inspired by https://gist.github.com/postmodern/5274138
require 'benchmark/ips'
def keyword(a:1,b:2,c:3)
a + b + c
end
def normal(a=1,b=2,c=3)
a + b + c
end