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The 5-minute backpack demo

Here's what I carry in a Tom Bihn Synapse 19 bag when I travel for 1-to-n days. In general, I optimize for low-weight items, with a secondary focus on reducing maintenance. You can peruse a gallery of pictures, too.

Clothing

# Video: http://rubyhoedown2008.confreaks.com/08-chris-wanstrath-keynote.html
Hi everyone, I'm Chris Wanstrath.
When Jeremy asked me to come talk, I said yes. Hell yes. Immediately. But
then I took a few moments and thought, Wait, why? Why me? What am I supposed
to say that's interesting? Something about Ruby, perhaps. Maybe the
future of it. The future of something, at least. That sounds
keynote-y.
@tsiege
tsiege / The Technical Interview Cheat Sheet.md
Last active June 21, 2025 16:50
This is my technical interview cheat sheet. Feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it. PLEASE let me know if there are any errors or if anything crucial is missing. I will add more links soon.

ANNOUNCEMENT

I have moved this over to the Tech Interview Cheat Sheet Repo and has been expanded and even has code challenges you can run and practice against!






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@burke
burke / 0-readme.md
Created January 27, 2012 13:44 — forked from funny-falcon/cumulative_performance.patch
ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

@alexagui
alexagui / ruby_debug_pow.markdown
Created July 22, 2011 03:26
How to Ruby Debug with Pow

How to Ruby Debug with Pow

Below are steps I followed to get ruby debugger ruby-debug running with Pow. Based on info from this thread basecamp/pow#43 and this blog post http://flochip.com/2011/04/13/running-pow-with-rdebug/

1) Update your Gemfile

Assuming you're writing your app in Ruby 1.9 and using Bundler, just add the dependency to your development gems:

@mabenson00
mabenson00 / cheatsheet.rb
Last active May 1, 2025 20:04
Rails Postgres ActiveRecord JSON cheatsheet
# Basic key operators to query the JSON objects :
# #> : Get the JSON object at that path (if you need to do something fancy)
# -> : Get the JSON object at that path (if you don't)
# ->> : Get the JSON object at that path as text
# {obj, n} : Get the nth item in that object
# https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/functions-json.html#FUNCTIONS-JSONB-OP-TABLE
# Date
# date before today
@shapeshed
shapeshed / nginx_rails_3_1
Created October 10, 2011 19:13
Nginx Config for Rails 3.1 with Unicorn and Asset Pipeline
upstream app {
server unix:/srv/app/current/tmp/sockets/unicorn.sock fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.app.com;
rewrite ^/(.*) http://app.com/$1 permanent;
}
server {
@pixeltrix
pixeltrix / routes.rb
Created October 29, 2010 13:21
Examples of advanced Rails 3.0 routes
Rails.application.routes.draw do
get '/(:locale)/products/(:category)/(page/:page).:extension',
:to => 'products#index',
:as => :products,
:constraints => {
:locale => /[a-z]{2}/,
:category => /.+?/,
:page => /\d+/
},
# In your test_helper.rb
class ActiveRecord::Base
mattr_accessor :shared_connection
@@shared_connection = nil
def self.connection
@@shared_connection || retrieve_connection
end
end
@andyfowler
andyfowler / .vimrc
Created September 5, 2011 18:08
Swap iTerm2 cursors in vim insert mode when using tmux
" tmux will only forward escape sequences to the terminal if surrounded by a DCS sequence
" http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTinkbdoZ8eNR1X2UobLTeww1jFrvfJxTMfKSq-L%2B%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=tmux-users
if exists('$TMUX')
let &t_SI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7\<Esc>\\"
let &t_EI = "\<Esc>Ptmux;\<Esc>\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7\<Esc>\\"
else
let &t_SI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=1\x7"
let &t_EI = "\<Esc>]50;CursorShape=0\x7"
endif