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@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')
@aishfenton
aishfenton / serializer_benchmarks.rb
Created July 18, 2010 02:32 — forked from visfleet/performance_of_yaml_vs_marshal.rb
Performance comparison of different ruby serializer methods
# sudo gem install bson
# sudo gem install bson_ext
# sudo gem install yajl-ruby
# sudo gem install json
# sudo gem install msgpack
require 'rubygems'
require 'benchmark'
require 'yaml'
require 'bson'
@mheadd
mheadd / dartfirststate_de_us.sql
Created October 7, 2010 17:13
A SQL script for importing GFTS data from the State of Delaware into a MySQL database.
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- A SQL script for importing GFTS data from the State of Delaware into a MySQL database.
--
-- Copyright 2010 Mark J. Headd
-- http://www.voiceingov.org
--
-- This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the
-- GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
-- License, or (at your option) any later version.
-- This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
@nilcolor
nilcolor / Node.js CORS
Created February 8, 2011 15:28
Node.js cross-origin POST. You should response for OPTIONS request first. Something like this.
if (req.method === 'OPTIONS') {
console.log('!OPTIONS');
var headers = {};
// IE8 does not allow domains to be specified, just the *
// headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = req.headers.origin;
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Origin"] = "*";
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Methods"] = "POST, GET, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS";
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Credentials"] = false;
headers["Access-Control-Max-Age"] = '86400'; // 24 hours
headers["Access-Control-Allow-Headers"] = "X-Requested-With, X-HTTP-Method-Override, Content-Type, Accept";
@fwielstra
fwielstra / api.js
Created June 14, 2011 14:46
An example NodeJS / Mongoose / Express application based on their respective tutorials
/* The API controller
Exports 3 methods:
* post - Creates a new thread
* list - Returns a list of threads
* show - Displays a thread and its posts
*/
var Thread = require('../models/thread.js');
var Post = require('../models/post.js');

Transactions

As your business logic gets complex you may need to implement transactions. The classic example is a bank funds transfer from account A to account B. If the withdrawal from account A fails then the deposit to account B should either never take place or be rolled back.

Basics

All the complexity is handled by ActiveRecord::Transactions. Any model class or instance has a method named .transaction. When called and passed a block, that block will be executed inside a database transaction. If there's an exception raised, the transaction will automatically be rolled back.

Example

@jcasimir
jcasimir / render_and_redirect.markdown
Created September 11, 2011 21:29
Render and Redirect in Rails 3

Render and Redirect

The normal controller/view flow is to display a view template corresponding to the current controller action, but sometimes we want to change that. We use render in a controller when we want to respond within the current request, and redirect_to when we want to spawn a new request.

Render

The render method is very overloaded in Rails. Most developers encounter it within the view template, using render :partial => 'form' or render @post.comments, but here we'll focus on usage within the controller.

:action

@jasoncodes
jasoncodes / gist:1223731
Created September 17, 2011 07:45
Installing Ruby 1.9.3 with rbenv on OS X
# The latest version of this script is now available at
# https://github.com/jasoncodes/dotfiles/blob/master/aliases/rbenv.sh
VERSION=1.9.3-p286
brew update
brew install rbenv ruby-build rbenv-vars readline ctags
if [ -n "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ]; then
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init - --no-rehash)"' >> ~/.zshrc
else
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init - --no-rehash)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
@artero
artero / launch_sublime_from_terminal.markdown
Last active January 25, 2024 16:57 — forked from olivierlacan/launch_sublime_from_terminal.markdown
Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Installation

@bryanwb
bryanwb / sendmail-basic-chef
Created October 16, 2011 06:04
Basic sendmail configuration
package 'sendmail' do
action :install
end
service 'sendmail' do
action [ :enable,:start ]
end
template "/etc/mail/sendmail.cf" do
source "sendmail.cf.erb"