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toddsampson / keybase.md
Created May 6, 2014 16:09

Keybase proof

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toddsampson / CreateReusableSteps.rb
Last active December 28, 2015 06:28
Creating a Reusable Dictionary of Steps in Cucumber blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2009/02/18/creating-a-reusable-dictionary-of-steps-in-cucumber/
Then /^it should return a response code of "(.+)"$/ do |resp_code|
response.code.should == resp_code
end
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toddsampson / ChooseRubyVersion.rb
Last active December 28, 2015 06:28
Upgrading/downgrading Rubygems blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2009/02/23/upgradingdowngrading-rubygems/
sudo gem install rubygems-update -v 1.2.0
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toddsampson / EstimateNumberOfRows.sql
Last active December 28, 2015 06:19
Fast MySQL InnoDB count. Really fast blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2009/08/06/fast-mysql-innodb-count-really-fast/
show table status;
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toddsampson / ChangingPasswords.rb
Last active December 28, 2015 06:19
Database.yml and multi-stage Capistrano deployment blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2009/09/18/database-yml-and-multi-stage-capistrano-deployment/
after "deploy:symlink", :update_config_file
after "deploy:symlink", :update_database_yml
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toddsampson / RecursiveCall.rb
Last active December 28, 2015 06:19
Testing the Halting Problem blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2009/09/29/testing-the-halting-problem/
def reader(record, previous_ids = [])
raise "loop" if previous_ids.include?(record.id)
...
return reader(next_record, previous_ids + [record.id])
end
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toddsampson / DefaultScope.rb
Created November 13, 2013 21:08
Default scope with Sunspot blog post: 2010/01/15/default-scope-with-sunspot/
class Item
# simple default scope to add an order_by to all queries
def self.default_search_scope(&additional)
search = Sunspot.new_search(Item)
search.build(&additional)
search.build do
order_by :created_at, :desc
end
search.execute
search.results
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toddsampson / IsThisGemInstalled.rb
Created November 13, 2013 21:04
Gist for Discovering if a Gem was Installed blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/?s=Is+this+gem+installed%3F
dependency = Gem::Dependency.new "authlogic", ">2"
specs = Gem.source_index.search dependency
puts "the gem is not installed" if specs.empty?
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toddsampson / BenchmarkingFruitNames
Last active December 28, 2015 06:19
Gists for Flog and to_proc_normal blog post: http://www.cloudspace.com/blog/2010/02/12/flog-and-to_proc_normal/
Rehearsal ------------------------------------
Benchmarking fruit_names_1:
4.040000 1.750000 5.790000 ( 5.852924)
Benchmarking fruit_names_2:
3.990000 2.060000 6.050000 ( 6.092260)
-------------------------- total: 11.840000sec
user system total real
Benchmarking fruit_names_1:
4.030000 1.750000 5.780000 ( 5.806661)