leshill

web: bundle exec unicorn -p $PORT -c ./config/unicorn.rb

harlantwood

# Committing changes to a repo via the Github API is not entirely trivial.
# The five-step process is outlined here:
#   http://developer.github.com/v3/git/
#
# Matt Swanson wrote a blog post translating the above steps into actual API calls:
#   http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/07/23/digging-around-the-github-api-take-2.html
# 
# I was not able to find sample code for actually doing this in Ruby, 
# either via the HTTP API or any of the gems that wrap the API.
# So in the hopes it will help others, here is a simple function to 

ascheink

require 'nokogiri'
require 'httparty'

puts "Scraping ids of detainees in custody"
ids = []
(1..10).each do |n|
  response = HTTParty.get "http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/held?page=#{n}"
  page = Nokogiri::HTML(response)
  ids += page.css('#detaineesTable a').map { |link| $1 if /detainees\/(\d+)/ =~ link['href'] }.compact
end

chrismdp

# You don't need Fog in Ruby or some other library to upload to S3 -- shell works perfectly fine
# This is how I upload my new Sol Trader builds (http://soltrader.net)
# Based on a modified script from here: http://tmont.com/blargh/2014/1/uploading-to-s3-in-bash

S3KEY="my aws key"
S3SECRET="my aws secret" # pass these in

function putS3
{
  path=$1