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@romansklenar
romansklenar / REAME.md
Last active June 9, 2025 07:28
How to set up your VPS with Chef Solo

How to set up your VPS with Chef Solo

1. What is it?

There are many different provisioning tools out there, the most popular of which are Chef and Puppet. Chef uses Ruby, Puppet uses a DSL (Domain Specific Language), there are others that use simple bash too, but today we're going to focus on Chef Solo.

2. Dependencies

To get Chef working properly on your local machine you need a few things.

Make sure you use Ruby 1.9.x and not Ruby 2.x as you will get errors with the json 1.6.1 gem on 2.x. Use rbenv or RVM to manage several different Rubies on the one machine.

@audreyfeldroy
audreyfeldroy / pypi-release-checklist.md
Last active May 20, 2025 07:59
My PyPI Release Checklist
  • Update HISTORY.md
  • Commit the changes:
git add HISTORY.md
git commit -m "Changelog for upcoming release 0.1.1."
  • Update version number (can also be minor or major)
bumpversion patch
@denisdefreyne
denisdefreyne / nanoc-subprojects.md
Last active February 3, 2016 12:56
Splitting nanoc

nanoc subprojects

Notes

  • The filesystem data source will still be part of core. Ideally, it could be moved out, but a lot of tests in core depend on the filesystem data source, and cleaning that up is a lot of (unecessary) work.
@timdorr
timdorr / IRB.rb
Created November 25, 2013 19:38
A basic self-referential friendship model in Rails 4.0.1
2.0.0p247 :002 > u = User.create!(name:"test")
(0.4ms) BEGIN
SQL (44.1ms) INSERT INTO "users" ("created_at", "name", "updated_at") VALUES ($1, $2, $3) RETURNING "id" [["created_at", Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:35:06 UTC +00:00], ["name", "test"], ["updated_at", Mon, 25 Nov 2013 19:35:06 UTC +00:00]]
(0.8ms) COMMIT
=> #<User id: 1, name: "test", created_at: "2013-11-25 19:35:06", updated_at: "2013-11-25 19:35:06">
2.0.0p247 :003 > u.friends
User Load (2.2ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" INNER JOIN "friendships" ON "users"."id" = "friendships"."friend_id" WHERE "friendships"."user_id" = $1 [["user_id", 1]]
=> #<ActiveRecord::Associations::CollectionProxy []>
@mertdumenci
mertdumenci / download-nsscreencast.rb
Created May 1, 2014 12:14
Download NSScreencast videos for offline viewing in a batch
# Using this script downloads ALL the videos in NSScreencast.
# Use it wisely, it's extra load/bandwidth for the NSScreencast website.
# Usage: `EMAIL=your email PASSWORD=your password COUNT=how many videos should be downloaded? ruby download-nsscreencast.rb`
require "mechanize"
require "parallel"
mechanize = Mechanize.new
mechanize.post("https://www.nsscreencast.com/user_sessions", {"email" => ENV["EMAIL"], "password" => ENV["PASSWORD"]})
mechanize.pluggable_parser.default = Mechanize::Download
@jpsim
jpsim / JAZMusician.h
Created July 7, 2014 09:25
SourceKit Playground
//
// JAZMusician.h
// JazzyApp
//
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
/**
JAZMusician models, you guessed it... Jazz Musicians!
From Ellington to Marsalis, this class has you covered.
@cfr
cfr / CocoaLumberjack.swift
Last active May 9, 2018 06:46 — forked from stigi/CocoaLumberjack.swift
Swift 1.2 CocoaLumberjack wrapper
// Updated to Swift 1.2 and CocoaLumberjack 2.0.0-rc by Stan Serebryakov on 2015-02-16
import Foundation
extension DDLog {
private struct State {
static var logLevel: DDLogLevel = .Error
static var logAsync: Bool = true
}
@minorbug
minorbug / timeago.swift
Created November 7, 2014 15:28
"Time ago" function for Swift (based on MatthewYork's DateTools for Objective-C)
func timeAgoSinceDate(date:NSDate, numericDates:Bool) -> String {
let calendar = NSCalendar.currentCalendar()
let unitFlags = NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitMinute | NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitHour | NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitWeekOfYear | NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitYear | NSCalendarUnit.CalendarUnitSecond
let now = NSDate()
let earliest = now.earlierDate(date)
let latest = (earliest == now) ? date : now
let components:NSDateComponents = calendar.components(unitFlags, fromDate: earliest, toDate: latest, options: nil)
if (components.year >= 2) {
return "\(components.year) years ago"
//
// AppDelegate.swift
// TypedTableViewControllers
//
// Created by Chris Eidhof on 23/03/15.
// Copyright (c) 2015 Unsigned Integer. All rights reserved.
//
import UIKit
@NicholasTD07
NicholasTD07 / TimeTracking.swift
Last active March 5, 2021 01:26
I use this to know how many hours I work a day.
#!/usr/bin/env xcrun swift
// Usage: path/to/TimeTracking.swift
// Go to bottom to see how it's used.
// The MIT License (MIT)
// Copyright (c) 2015 Nicholas T.
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy