Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # | |
| # Find bloating passengers and kill them gracefully. Run from cron every minute. | |
| # | |
| MEM_LIMIT = ARGV[0] || 500 | |
| module Process | |
| def self.running?(pid) | |
| begin |
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| # | |
| # fetch hosts from amazon EC2 meta-data | |
| # | |
| # Based on http://dysinger.net/2008/10/13/using-amazon-ec2-metadata-as-a-simple-dns | |
| # | |
| %w(logger optparse rubygems right_aws resolv pp).each { |l| require l } | |
| LOGGER = Logger.new("/var/log/fetch_hosts.log") |
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| command = '/usr/bin/passenger-memory-stats' | |
| memory_limit = 200 # megabytes | |
| def running?(pid) | |
| begin | |
| return Process.getpgid(pid) != -1 | |
| rescue Errno::ESRCH | |
| return false |
| RELEASE_OUTPUT_PATH = File.expand_path("~/Projects/releases/Squeemote") | |
| TARGET_NAME = "Squeemote" | |
| CONFIGURATION = ENV['CONFIGURATION'] || "Distribution" | |
| SDK_VERSION = ENV['SDK'] || 'iphoneos2.2' | |
| task :release do | |
| puts "* Bumping build version." | |
| `agvtool bump -all` | |
| puts "* Building #{CONFIGURATION} release." |
| # by Giles Bowkett | |
| # http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/04/unshiftfiledirnamefile.html | |
| # >> File.here("README.textile") | |
| # => "/Users/dancroak/dev/ecology/README.textile" | |
| class File | |
| def self.here(string) | |
| join(expand_path(dirname(__FILE__), string)) | |
| end | |
| end |
| /* | |
| * a smart poller for jquery. | |
| * (by github) | |
| * | |
| * simple example: | |
| * | |
| * $.smartPoller(function(retry) { | |
| * $.getJSON(url, function(data) { | |
| * if (data) { | |
| * doSomething(data) |
| # Overload Clearance's `deny_access` methods to allow authentication with HTTP-Auth for eg. API access | |
| # Modeled after technoweenie's restful_authentication | |
| # http://github.com/technoweenie/restful-authentication/blob/7235d9150e8beb80a819923a4c871ef4069c6759/generators/authenticated/templates/authenticated_system.rb#L74-76 | |
| # | |
| # In lib/clearance_http_auth.rb | |
| module Clearance | |
| module Authentication | |
| module InstanceMethods | |
| # Load config/paperclip.yml settings | |
| if paperclip_cfg = YAML.load_file("#{Rails.root}/config/paperclip.yml")[Rails.env] | |
| paperclip_cfg.symbolize_keys! | |
| command_path = paperclip_cfg.delete(:command_path) | |
| # Replace Attachment defaults with configuration ones | |
| Paperclip::Attachment.default_options.merge!(paperclip_cfg) | |
| # Adjust ImageMagick path to work with Passenger | |
| Paperclip.options[:command_path] = command_path |
| Factory.define :application do |factory| | |
| factory.attachment(:sample, "public/samples/sample.doc", "application/msword") | |
| end |