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arches / unified social media access

Created March 5, 2011 03:53

console output showing unified access to multiple 3rd-party services. In the output, we see my personal albums/images from these services.

arches / pre-commit-jammit

Created October 31, 2011 19:48

Git commit hook to package assets using Jammit

	#!/bin/bash

	# to install, replace your .git/hooks/pre-commit with this file

	if [ $staged_asset_count -gt 0 ]; then
	if [ $changed_asset_count -eq 0 ]; then
	echo "Packaging css/js assets with jammit..."
	jammit -f
	git add public/packaged # you might need to change this based on the package_path you use in your assets.yml
	else

arches / app.rb

Created February 13, 2012 00:57

News articles with voting

	# Entities

	class Post
	attr_accessor :id, :title, :link, :summary
	attr_accessor :reactions

	def score
	self.reactions.inject(0){\|r, sum\| sum += r.score }
	end
	end

arches / namespace.js

Created March 4, 2012 23:39

Namespacing syntax

	var Foo; if (!Foo) Foo = {};

	// Then you can safely define things on Foobar:
	Foo.Bar = function(){};

arches / public-javascripts-base-flash.js

Created March 5, 2012 05:05

Javascript for Flash Messages

	var Arch; if (!Arch) Arch = {}; // set up custom namespace 'arch'

	Arch.Flash = {
	showError: function(message) {
	if (message == "") return;
	$('#flash-msg .user-msg-detail').removeClass('notice');
	$('#flash-msg .user-msg-detail').addClass('error');
	$('#flash-msg .user-msg-detail span').html(message);
	$('#flash-msg').show();
	},

arches / public-javascripts-scopes-topics-ajax_pagination.js

Created March 5, 2012 05:15

Javascript for Ajax Pagination

	var Arch; if (!Arch) Arch = {}; // set up custom namespace 'Arch'

	Arch.AjaxPagination = function(paginationContainer, storiesContainer, filtersContainer) {

	// Only html5 browsers can use ajax pagination. We don't want no stinkin' hashbang URLs.
	if (!history.pushState) {
	return;
	}

	this.$paginationContainer = $(paginationContainer);

arches / run_bot.rb

Created March 17, 2012 19:24

Chat client for dogs

	require 'iron_mq'

	# IronMQ credentials
	token = asdf
	project_id = asdf

	# each chatter needs their own queue
	@fido = IronMQ::Client.new('token' => token, 'project_id' => project_id, :queue_name => "fido")
	@red_rover = IronMQ::Client.new('token' => token, 'project_id' => project_id, :queue_name => "red_rover")

arches / sandbox.rb

Created April 1, 2012 03:35

Create and manipulate arbitrary classes with attributes and inheritance inside the safety of a module namespace

	module Sandbox
	def self.add_class(klass)
	const_set_from_string(klass)
	end

	def self.add_attributes(klass, *attrs)
	self.const_get_from_string(klass).class_eval do
	attr_accessor *attrs

	# set up the 'initialize' method to assign the attributes

arches / gist:3054004

Created July 5, 2012 14:29

HTML Curriculum

Lesson 1 - Pulling Back the Curtain

arches / irbrc.rb

Created July 19, 2012 02:54

Run a project-specific IRB config in Rails 3.1+

	if ENV['RAILS_ENV']
	rails_env = ENV['RAILS_ENV'].downcase
	elsif Rails and Rails.env
	rails_env = Rails.env.downcase
	end

	if rails_env
	current_app = "myapp"

	black = "\[\033[0;30m\]"

	>> albums = Album.find(user, {:services => [:flickr, :facebook]})
	=> [#<Buffet::Album:0x1024deee8 @remote_id="72157625131396492", @title="set2", @service="flickr">,
	#<Buffet::Album:0x1024df1e0 @remote_id="72157625006674119", @title="set1", @service="flickr">,
	#<Buffet::Album:0x1024deec0 @title="Photostream", @service="flickr">,
	#<Buffet::Album:0x1024d4330 @remote_id="505294201356", @title="Christmas 2010", @service="facebook">,
	#<Buffet::Album:0x1024d4380 @remote_id="504864193096", @title="Profile Pictures", @service="facebook">,
	#<Buffet::Album:0x1024d4358 @remote_id="504697162826", @title="A Retrospective", @service="facebook">,
	.
	.
	.