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class Brand < ActiveRecord::Base
  
  (0..5).each do |f|
    define_method("flags_#{f}".to_sym) {      read_attribute("flags_#{f}".to_sym).to_2s_complement(64)    }
    define_method("flags_#{f}=".to_sym){ |n| write_attribute("flags_#{f}".to_sym), n.to_2s_complement(64) }
  end

  # I'm getting syntax errors in the above code. Not sure why.

# ...

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##### FILE : lib/words.rb

# Gives you N random word(s) over a certain length
# Only works on unixlike systems where this file exists
class Words
  # DICT_PATH = '/usr/share/dict/words'
  # DICT_SIZE = 234936
  def self.random_word(words = 1, minlength = 6)
    @@dict_all ||= File.open("/usr/share/dict/words").readlines.map{|l| l.chomp}
    @@dict_size ||= @@dict_all.length

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require 'digest/sha1'
require 'tempfile'
 
class LocalPaperclipTempfile < ::Tempfile
 
  # note: had a ton of trouble using "data" instead of "tmp_data" for naming here:
  def initialize(filename, tmp_data, tmpdir = Dir::tmpdir)
    @original_filename  = filename
    @tmp_data = tmp_data
    super Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(@tmp_data), tmpdir

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class String
  # note: very rough, does not handle caps (but that could be added), just something to help sort accented characters correctly...
  TRANSLATION_HASH = {"’"=>"'","åäáàâ" => "a", "ëéèê" => "e", "ïíìî" => "i", "öóòô" => "o", "üúùû" => "u", "ß" => "ss"}
  UNUNICODE = Hash[*TRANSLATION_HASH.map{|u,as| u.unpack("U*").inject([]){|sum,e| sum << e; sum << as}}.flatten]
  def un_unicode
    self.unpack("U*").map{|c| UNUNICODE[c] ? UNUNICODE[c] : c.chr}.join
  end
end

# use case

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require 'sender'

# For fun, trying to define my own string interpolator so that any symbol in a string (optionally end-delimited with a colon if not at a word boundary) gets substituted for its eval'd value.

# Here's what I have so far. No workie, due to context issue with "eval" call. Help?

class String
  def i
    self.gsub(/:([\w_]+)/){|match| __sender__.eval $1}
  end

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module Mathhax
  def /(o)
    if o==0
      puts "I'm sorry, #{`hostname`.chomp}, I'm afraid I can't do that"
    else
      super
    end
  end
end

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class Time
  def format_compact(precision = :second, inc_utc = true)
    prec = [:year, :month, :day, :hour, :minute, :second].index precision
    fmt_a = ["%Y","%m","%d","_%H","%M","%S"][0..prec]
    fmt = fmt_a.join('')
    self.strftime("#{fmt}#{'%Z' if inc_utc}")
  end
  def format_datestamp(inc_utc = true)
    self.strftime("%Y%m%d#{'%Z' if inc_utc}")
  end

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lifebooker@lifebookers-Mac-mini-2[:~[$ /usr/bin/env HOMEBREW_TEMP=/Users/lifebooker/Developer/tmp /Users/lifebooker/Developer/bin/brew install wget
==> Downloading http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2
File already downloaded in /Users/lifebooker/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> Downloading patches
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Patching
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
/usr/bin/patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/patch -f -p1 -i 001-homebrew.diff
lifebooker@lifebookers-Mac-mini-2[:~[$ 

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Utf8Checker
  def initialize(path = `pwd`.chomp)
    @files = Dir["#{path}/**/**"]
    @total_num = @files.count
    puts "#{@total_num} files to process."
    @num_left = @total_num
    @valid = false
    @err = false

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#!/usr/bin/env sh
# fake_time_machine.sh

# Fake Time Machine
# by Peter Marreck
# Based on ideas in http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html
# 9/2011

# E_BADARGS=85
# if [ -z "$1" ]