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#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rss'

# Usage
# $ ./railscasts.rb http://railscasts.com/subscriptions/YOURRAILSCASTRSS/\/
#     episodes.rss
# OR
# $ ./railscasts.rb

p 'Downloading rss index'

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=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')

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 git ls-files | grep '\.swp$' | xargs git rm

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$ ActiveRecord::Base.connection.reset_pk_sequence!('table_name')

If you need the table names:

$ ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables

=> ["accounts", "assets", ...]

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#!/bin/env ruby

# lazy hack from Robert Klemme

module Memory
  # sizes are guessed, I was too lazy to look
  # them up and then they are also platform
  # dependent
  REF_SIZE = 4 # ?
  OBJ_OVERHEAD = 4 # ?

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Gregg Pollack's Founder's Talk 1

25 Lessons:

1. As a founder, you must be willing to wear all hats
2. Do one on ones
3. If you have an audience, you can make money

• Sponsorships
• Charging people
• If you can bring an audience, you can probably figure out a way to monetize.

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set imap_user = 'user@gmail.com'
set imap_pass = 'pass'
set spoolfile = imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX
set folder = imaps://imap.gmail.com:993
set record="imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
set postponed=”imaps://imap.gmail.com/[Gmail]/Drafts”
set message_cachedir=”~/.mutt/cache/bodies”
set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates

set smtp_url = "smtp://user@smtp.gmail.com:587/"

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Someone recently asked the following question in the discussion forum of the Rubyists LinkedIn group: What separates a junior Rails developer from a senior one?

My response follows. Join us at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=120725 to weigh in on this and other topics of interest to Rubyists. As of today there are almost 1,200 members, including numerous movers and shakers in the Ruby and Rails communities.

“Distinguishing between junior and senior people in the Rails world is not so different from making the distinction in other web development environments.

“Junior Rails people have not dealt with scaling issues to the degree that senior people have. Getting a public-facing Rails application to perform under significant stress is more challenging than doing the same with other building materials such as PHP. Senior people know how to performance-test Rails applications, where to look for bottlenecks, and how to eliminate them one after another until performance is acceptable in real conditions. The Ra

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What is this?

Following this guide will set up a local Elasticsearch with Kibana and Marvel using Homebrew and Homebrew Cask

Prerequisites

If you already have Java installed on your system, skip steps Install Cask and Install Java

If you already have Java and Homebrew installed on your system, skip steps Prerequisites, start at Install Elasticsearch and Kibana after running $ brew update

Install Homebrew

• $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

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require 'spec_helper'

# Bustle is a pubsub system used for activity streams:
#  https://github.com/fredwu/bustle
#
# Here when a person follows another (or a discussion, for instance), the observer wires
# up pubsub between them for future activity notifications. The Follow model knows nothing
# about the implementation choices for the pubsub system.
describe FollowObserver do
  subject { FollowObserver.instance }