justinweiss

require 'yaml'
require 'erb'
require 'ostruct'

class Settings < OpenStruct

  # Settings.new(:google_analytics)
  def initialize(config_file_base_name)
    super(YAML.load(ERB.new(File.read(Rails.root.join("config", "#{config_file_base_name}.yml"))).result)[Rails.env])
  end

olivierlacan

• http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-live-testing.html
• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/25/MonogamousTDD.html
• http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/test-induced-design-damage.html
• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/01/Design-Damage.html
• http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/slow-database-test-fallacy.html
• http://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/04/30/When-tdd-does-not-work.html
• https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/blog/2014/tdd-straw-men-and-rhetoric
• http://articles.coreyhaines.com/posts/active-record-spec-helper/
• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/UnitTest.html

simX

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool YES;
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver DisplayResolutionDisabled;

// by the way, you need to logout and log back in for this to take effect.  Or at least that's what
// Quartz Debug says.  Who knows, maybe it's lying?

// P.S. Go to [Apple menu --> System Preferences --> Displays --> Display --> Scaled] after logging
// back in, and you'll see a bunch of "HiDPI" resolutions in the list to choose from.

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

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")