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class Node < ActiveRecord::Base
  validates :name, :presence => true
end

class Team < Node
  delegate :name, :to => :profile

  after_initialize do |team|
    team.build_profile(:name => team[:name]) if team.new_record? && team.profile.nil?
  end

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(rdb:1) date
2010-09-26 05:02:10 UTC
(rdb:1) date.class
Time
(rdb:1) @league.rounds.current.start_date.utc
2010-09-26 05:02:10 UTC
(rdb:1) @league.rounds.current.start_date.utc.class
Time
(rdb:1) @league.rounds.current.start_date.utc == date
false

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ruby-1.9.2-p180 :007 > Team.all.count
  Team Load (1.6ms)  SELECT `nodes`.* FROM `nodes` WHERE `nodes`.`type` = 'Team' ORDER BY nodes.name DESC
 => 13 
ruby-1.9.2-p180 :008 > Zone.all.count
  Zone Load (2.2ms)  SELECT `nodes`.* FROM `nodes` WHERE `nodes`.`type` = 'Zone' ORDER BY nodes.name DESC
  League Load (0.5ms)  SELECT `nodes`.* FROM `nodes` WHERE `nodes`.`type` = 'League' AND `nodes`.`id` = 1 ORDER BY nodes.name DESC LIMIT 1
  Round Load (0.5ms)  SELECT `rounds`.* FROM `rounds` WHERE (`rounds`.league_id = 1) ORDER BY rounds.starts_at DESC
  SQL (0.4ms)  SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `zone_configurations` WHERE (`zone_configurations`.zone_id = 5)
  League Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `nodes`.* FROM `nodes` WHERE `nodes`.`type` = 'League' AND `nodes`.`id` = 1 ORDER BY nodes.name DESC LIMIT 1
  Round Load (0.4ms)  SELECT `rounds`.* FROM `rounds` WHERE (`rounds`.league_id = 1) ORDER BY rounds.starts_at DESC

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namespace :db do
  desc 'Reset all User passwords to "letmein"'
  task :password_reset => :environment do
    count = 0
    User.all.each do |u|
      u.password = u.password_confirmation = 'letmein'
      if u.save
        count += 1
        print '.'
      else

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Web Application Developer

Institute of Sustainable Futures @ University of Technology, Sydney

Want to work where you can really make a difference? A position at UTS is one of influence, recognition, reward and work-life balance.

The Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at UTS is a leader in applied sustainability research. Over the last 13 years ISF has worked with numerous government, industry and community organisations, in Australia and

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class JobDescription
  def self.important_bits
    chaff do
      """
## Position
You'll have an initial six to nine month negotiated contract, with a view to making you a permanent employee once we establish we're right for each other.  You'll be enhancing & maintaining a range of existing projects, including our internal custom built Project Management System (PIMMS), our energy efficiency game website: [Climate Clubs](http://ccv2.heroku.com/), and our waste management tool for SMEs: [WasteNot](http://wastenot.streamline.org.au/) (built for us by :mocra).  You'll also help us quickly knock up proof of concept sites (and nurture them into blossoming gardens; cheers @cmaitchison ;-) for the many community education & engagement ideas we have in the icebox.

## We use
Ubuntu/Passenger/Nginx, Heroku, JenkinsCI, Rails, Git, BackboneJS (jQuery), Rspec (Cucumber), whatever you want (except Haskell) :-p

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ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > task = Task.create(:name => "test")
 => #<Task id: 4364, name: "test", created_at: "2011-06-07 10:38:24", updated_at: "2011-06-07 10:38:24"> 
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 > task.destroy
 => #<Task id: 4364, name: "test", created_at: "2011-06-07 10:38:24", updated_at: "2011-06-07 10:38:47"> 
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > task
 => #<Task id: 4364, name: "test", created_at: "2011-06-07 10:38:24", updated_at: "2011-06-07 10:38:47"> 
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :005 > task.present?
 => true 
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :007 > task.reload
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn't find Task with ID=4364

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# Rails 2 and Rails 3 console
function rc {
  if [ -e "./script/console" ]; then
    ./script/console $@
  else
    rails console $@
  fi
}

# Rails 2 and Rails 3 server

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def select_animal(num)
  animal = case num
    when (1 or 2) then :monkey          # 2 & 4 never get reached
    when (3 || 4) then :giraffe
  end
  return animal
end

(1..4).each do |n|
  puts select_animal(n)

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# !/usr/bin/env ruby
# 
# A pre-commit hook to test if jammit needs to be run
# In case you don't like on the fly stuff

require 'rubygems'
require "bundler"
Bundler.setup
require 'jammit'