defunkt

# If your workers are inactive for a long period of time, they'll lose
# their MySQL connection.
#
# This hack ensures we re-connect whenever a connection is
# lost. Because, really. why not?
#
# Stick this in RAILS_ROOT/config/initializers/connection_fix.rb (or somewhere similar)
#
# From:
#   http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/activerecord-threading-issues-and-resolutions/

tcocca

require 'erb'

class MissingSpecGenerator

  def spec_file(spec_path, file_name, spec_template, namespace)
    spec_name = file_name.gsub('.rb', '') + '_spec.rb'
    if File.exist?("#{spec_path}/#{spec_name}")
      puts "#{spec_path}/#{spec_name} exists"
    else
      puts "#{spec_path}/#{spec_name} missing"

JayCuthrell

require 'open-uri'
require 'digest/md5'

# Get your external IP address from IP Chicken to send to the Quova service request URL below
ip_address = (open("http://ipchicken.com") {|f|f.read.scan(/([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3}/);$~})

# Your API credentials from http://developer.quova.com/apps/mykeys
API_KEY = 'yougottagetyourownforthispartrighthere'
SHARED_SECRET = 'yespleasegetyourown'

dnagir

# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

mikhailov

- http://www.coffeepowered.net/2009/06/13/fine-tuning-your-garbage-collector/
- http://snaprails.tumblr.com/post/241746095/rubys-gc-configuration

  article’s settings:                                     ("spec spec" took 17-23!sec)
	export RUBY_HEAP_MIN_SLOTS=1250000
	export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_INCREMENT=100000
	export RUBY_HEAP_SLOTS_GROWTH_FACTOR=1
	export RUBY_GC_MALLOC_LIMIT=30000000
	export RUBY_HEAP_FREE_MIN=12500

shedd

# Support running Whenever cron jobs with Lockrun
# Lockrun: http://www.unixwiz.net/tools/lockrun.html
# lockrun typically installed at /usr/bin/lockrun
# On Mac, install with: brew install lockrun
# Lockrun prefix for cronjobs: /usr/bin/lockrun --lockfile=/path/to/tmp/JOBNAME.lockrun -- sh -c "COMMAND"
def wrap_with_lockrun command
  "/usr/bin/env lockrun --lockfile=:path/tmp/:lockfile.lockrun -- sh -c \"#{ command }\""
end

#redefine the three default job types to use Lockrun (i.e. just add 'lockrun_' in front of the existing job names)

drnic

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Installs a gem in a specific RVM ruby/gemset, and helps you create
# an alias to a CLI/bin script to always use that gemset.
# Wonderfully useful for utility scripts (engineyard's ey or github-gem's gh)
#
# USAGE:
#   freeze_gem_cli engineyard ey
#   freeze_gem_cli github gh ruby-1.8.7p334
#

shedd

namespace :assets do
  
  task  :check => :environment do
    paths = ["app/assets", "lib/assets", "vendor/assets"]
    
    paths.each do |path|
      dir_path = Rails.root + path
      
      if File.exists?(dir_path)
        dir_files = File.join(dir_path, "**")

shedd

# Add New Relic instrumentation
# ** define this before the lib/tasks are included
def task_with_new_relic_and_hoptoad(options)
  caller_method = options.keys.first

  task(options) do
    require 'newrelic_rpm' 
    include NewRelic::Agent::Instrumentation::ControllerInstrumentation
    NewRelic::Agent.manual_start
    

jackkinsella

#~/.janus.rake file
vim_plugin_task "autoclose", "git://github.com/Townk/vim-autoclose.git"

#~/vimrc.local file

let g:AutoClosePairs = {'(': ')', '{': '}', '[': ']', '"': '"', "'": "'", '#{': '}', '|':'|' } 
let g:AutoCloseProtectedRegions = ["Character"]