vasanthk

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?

robmiller

#
# Working with branches
#

# Get the current branch name (not so useful in itself, but used in
# other aliases)
branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
# Push the current branch to the remote "origin", and set it to track
# the upstream branch
publish = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"

matsadler

Ruby 2.0.0 in detail

Keyword arguments

def wrap(string, before: "<", after: ">")
  "#{before}#{string}#{after}" # no need to retrieve options from a hash
end

# optional

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

sdball

Recommended code reading from Ruby Parley

Ruby

• cane: https://github.com/square/cane
• Capybara: https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara
• REST Client: https://github.com/archiloque/rest-client
• Savon: https://github.com/savonrb/savon
• Unicorn: https://github.com/defunkt/unicorn

jimbojsb

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

Peeja

class GroupOfThingies
  attr_accessor :thingies

  # Use like this:
  #
  #   group_of_thingies = GroupOfThingies.new
  #   group_of_thingies.each do |thing|
  #     puts "Check out this awesome thing: #{thing}!"
  #   end
  #