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henrik / .bashrc
Created December 3, 2008 17:56
Git branch and dirty state in Bash prompt.
# http://henrik.nyh.se/2008/12/git-dirty-prompt
# http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/13/show-your-git-branch-name-in-your-prompt/
# username@Machine ~/dev/dir[master]$ # clean working directory
# username@Machine ~/dev/dir[master*]$ # dirty working directory
function parse_git_dirty {
[[ $(git status 2> /dev/null | tail -n1) != "nothing to commit (working directory clean)" ]] && echo "*"
}
function parse_git_branch {
git branch --no-color 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e "s/* \(.*\)/[\1$(parse_git_dirty)]/"
@defunkt
defunkt / connection_fix.rb
Created November 19, 2009 20:00
MySQL server has gone away fix
# 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/
@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@mislav
mislav / pagination.md
Created October 12, 2010 17:20
"Pagination 101" by Faruk Ateş

Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

@penguinboy
penguinboy / Object Flatten
Created January 2, 2011 01:55
Flatten javascript objects into a single-depth object
var flattenObject = function(ob) {
var toReturn = {};
for (var i in ob) {
if (!ob.hasOwnProperty(i)) continue;
if ((typeof ob[i]) == 'object') {
var flatObject = flattenObject(ob[i]);
for (var x in flatObject) {
if (!flatObject.hasOwnProperty(x)) continue;
@txus
txus / delegate_matcher.rb
Created February 2, 2011 09:19
RSpec matcher for delegations
# RSpec matcher to spec delegations.
#
# Usage:
#
# describe Post do
# it { should delegate(:name).to(:author).with_prefix } # post.author_name
# it { should delegate(:month).to(:created_at) }
# it { should delegate(:year).to(:created_at) }
# end
@lucascaton
lucascaton / rvm-ree.log
Created July 22, 2011 00:14
Segmentation fault in (RVM) REE installation
It looks like the source is already configured.
Skipping configure script...
/usr/bin/gcc -dynamiclib system_allocator.c -install_name @rpath/libsystem_allocator.dylib -o libsystem_allocator.dylib
mkdir -p .ext/common
make PREINCFLAGS='-I/opt/local/include' PRELIBS='-L/opt/local/lib -Wl,-rpath,/Users/caton/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/lib -L/Users/caton/.rvm/rubies/ree-1.8.7-2011.03/lib -lsystem_allocator'
./ext/purelib.rb:2: [BUG] Segmentation fault
@paulirish
paulirish / rAF.js
Last active July 19, 2024 19:50
requestAnimationFrame polyfill
// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating
// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel
// MIT license
(function() {
var lastTime = 0;
var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];
@monde
monde / honeybadger_resque.rb
Created August 4, 2012 05:09
Honeybadger based error reporting backend for Resque
# for Rails place in config/initializers/honeybadger_resque.rb
%w( resque honeybadger ).each do |gem|
begin
require gem
rescue LoadError
raise "Can't find '#{gem}' gem. Please add it to your Gemfile or install it."
end
end
@jamarparris
jamarparris / Generate Mongo Object ID in PostGres
Last active March 20, 2024 00:04
Create ObjectIds in PostGres following the MongoDB semantics. Very similar to the Instagram approach linked below.http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/object-id/http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sharding-ids-at-instagram
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Jamar Parris
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE S