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## helpers/layout_helper.rb

module LayoutHelper
  def title(page_title, show_title = true)
    @content_for_title = page_title.to_s
    @show_title = show_title
  end
  
  def show_title?
    @show_title

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Essential

• rails
• passenger
• mysql
• sqlite3-ruby
• haml
• compass
• bluecloth
• nifty_generators

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desc "Fetch product prices"  
task :updatepayouts => :environment do  
  require 'mechanize'    
  agent = WWW::Mechanize.new 
 Offer.find_all_by_payout(nil).each do |offer|  
 escaped_offer_name = CGI.escape("\"#{offer.name}\"")
 agent.get("http://odigger.com/?&q=#{escaped_offer_name}&network_id=")
 agent.page.search(".payout").each do |offer2|
 offer.update_attribute(:payout, offer2.text.strip)  
     end

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## Cucumber Scenario

  @wip
  Scenario: Login with correct details
    Given a user named "brent" exists
    When I go to login
    And I fill in "Username" with "brent"
    And I fill in "Password" with "screech"
    And I press "Log In"
    And show me the page

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class UserSessionsController < ApplicationController
  def new
    @user_session = UserSession.new
  end
  
  def create
    @user_session = UserSession.new(params[:user_session])
    if @user_session.save
      flash[:notice] = "Logged in successfully."
      redirect_to_target_or_default(root_url)

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So I have a model named Droplet. A droplet is essentially a catch-all status update. It looks like this:

Droplet
-------

- id
- title:varchar(255)
- body:varchar(255)
- user_id:int(11)

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class PostsController < ApplicationController

  def results
    params[:search] = params[:search].blank? ? '%' : "%#{params[:search]}%"
    @posts = Post.where("body LIKE ? OR title LIKE ?", params[:search], params[:search]).published(true).paginate(:per_page => 5, :page => params[:page])
    render :action => :index
  end

end

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
THIS_FILE = File.symlink?(__FILE__) ? File.readlink(__FILE__) : __FILE__
$LOAD_PATH.unshift File.expand_path(File.dirname(THIS_FILE))
Dir.chdir(File.expand_path(File.dirname(THIS_FILE)))

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I disagree strongly with the notion that emotion and tone must be left up to the imagination in written communication. It's often repeated, I think, because we don't have the full range of subtext provided by the body when communicating in person, but I'd argue that there is a whole host of metadata that accompanies the written statement, anyway. Semiological constructions have evolved over time to provide these visual cues—perhaps not in the same way, but certainly in a way that is respectible and replete with its own intricacies of meaning.

Credo: I believe that it is entirely possible to communicate without ambiguity in writing. Most importantly, I believe it is possible to do so in a concise manner. Correspondingly, I tend to get upset when I see prohibitions of parts of written speech. There's a difference between guarding against overuse and the often deontological imperative implied with such prohibitions. The occasional adverb adds spice, and the occasional exclamation point will clarify a sentence j