igal

Earlier this weekend, I realized that I may have become part of a dangerous
cult after having the following conversation at the foodcarts:
> Me: "We don't know those people. Should we indoctrinate them?" 
> Audrey: "Yes! I have more fliers."

> http://www.vistech.net/users/rsturge/cults.html
> THE WARNING SIGNS OF A DANGEROUS CULT
...as applied to Audrey's open source community side projects

> 1. The spiritual group claims to have received special instructions from one

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/

mathiasbynens

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$1" = "-h" -o "$1" = "--help" -o -z "$1" ]; then cat <<EOF
appify v3.0.1 for Mac OS X - http://mths.be/appify
Creates the simplest possible Mac app from a shell script.

Appify takes a shell script as its first argument:

    `basename "$0"` my-script.sh

eric

#
# Eric Lindvall <eric@5stops.com>
# 
# Update the process name for the process you're running in.
#
# This will allow top, lsof, and killall to see the process as the
# name you specify.
#
# Just use:
#

piscisaureus

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = git@github.com:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

taktran

# Ship it! rake task
#
# Merge branch (master by default) to deployment branch, and deploy to server.
#
# Prerequisite:
#
#   * Declare all deployment branches in `ALL_DEPLOYMENT_BRANCHES`
#   * Declare deploy only branches in `DEPLOY_ONLY_BRANCHES` (ie, does not merge master)
#   * Modify `Deploy.command` function as necessary
#

willurd

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

holman

This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.

• Woody Guthrie, 1940's —

pcreux

# Elixir has pipes `|>`. Let's try to implement those in Ruby.
#
# I want to write this:
#
#   email.body | RemoveSignature | HighlightMentions | :html_safe
#
# instead of:
#
#   HighlightMentions.call(RemoveSignature.call(email.body)).html_safe
#

O-I

One of the many reasons I love working with Ruby is it has a rich vocabulary that allows you to accomplish your goals with a minimal amount of code. If there isn't a method that does exactly what you want, it's usually possible to build an elegant solution yourself.

Let's take the example of simulating the rolling of a die.

We can represent a die as an array of its faces.

die = [*?⚀..?⚅]
# => ["⚀", "⚁", "⚂", "⚃", "⚄", "⚅"]