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# 0. Make sure you have Ruby 1.9.3 installed, and optionally RVM and PostgreSQL

# 0.2 If you are on the Mac, make sure you have a c compiler by installing XCode Command Line Tools or gcc4.2 with homebrew
# https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Custom-GCC-and-cross-compilers

# 0.5 Make sure you have bundler version ~> 1.2 as Rails depends on it
gem install bundler

# 1. Get edge Rails source (master branch)
git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git

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---
# ^^^ YAML documents must begin with the document separator "---"
#
#### Example docblock, I like to put a descriptive comment at the top of my 
#### playbooks.
#
# Overview: Playbook to bootstrap a new host for configuration management.
# Applies to: production
# Description: 
#   Ensures that a host is configured for management with Ansible.

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For each Ruby module/class, we have Ruby methods on the left and the equivalent
Clojure functions and/or relevant notes are on the right.

For clojure functions, symbols indicate existing method definitions, in the 
clojure namespace if none is explicitly given.  clojure.contrib.*/* functions can
be obtained from http://github.com/kevinoneill/clojure-contrib/tree/master,
ruby-to-clojure.*/* functions can be obtained from the source files in this
gist.

If no method symbol is given, we use the following notation:

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--colour
-I app

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For each Ruby module/class, we have Ruby methods on the left and the equivalent
Clojure functions and/or relevant notes are on the right.

For clojure functions, symbols indicate existing method definitions, in the 
clojure namespace if none is explicitly given.  clojure.contrib.*/* functions can
be obtained from http://github.com/kevinoneill/clojure-contrib/tree/master,
ruby-to-clojure.*/* functions can be obtained from the source files in this
gist.

If no method symbol is given, we use the following notation:

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# Asynchronous DSL for CoffeeScript

serial = (f) ->
  next = -> arr.shift().apply(null, arguments) if arr.length
  arr = (v for k, v of f(next))
  next()
  null

parallel = (f, after = ->) ->
  res = {}; arrc = 0

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Continuous CoffeeScript testing with Guard and Jasmine

This Gist shows how to set up a Rails project to practice BDD with CoffeeScript, Guard and Jasmine. You can see this setup in action on Vimeo

• Install Gems with Bundler with bundle install
• Define your guards with mate Guardfile
• Initialize Jasmine with bundle exec jasmine init
• Configure Jasmine with mate spec/support/yasmine.ym
• Start Guard with bundle exec guard

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What did you do to get good at Rails?
Initially started with the Agile Web Dev with Rails book, used that to build an all-AJAX Twitter app back when Twitter was shiney and new. Demo'd that to work and that rolled into a pilot project using Ruby/Rails to tie a couple of backend APIs together into a reporting app. I decided I loved it all so much that I began some client projects on the side.

Who taught you what you know?
Mostly self-taught ... worked with other techs for many years, so most of the learning was in details of Ruby and the platform rather than "oh this is a model" level. 

Do you have any fond (or not so fond) memories of your learning experiences?
The first time I built AJAX using about 3 lines of code. Coming from PHP and Java this was all previously manual. These days everyone has been inspired by Rails, but it's very easy to forget that at the time it was so far aheadf of the curve it was like magic. 

What was your first production app and what did you learn from it?

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// VSJONP ― Very Simple JSONP
// ==========================
//
// Usage:
//   fetchJsonP({ 
//     url:      'http://shit-no-cors.json', 
//     complete: function(response) {
//       console.log(response);
//     }
//   });

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

uninstall() {
  list=`gem list --no-versions`
  for gem in $list; do
    gem uninstall $gem -aIx
  done
  gem list
  gem install bundler
}