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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
dir   = File.join( ENV['DNS_BACKUP_DIR'] || '.', 'zerigo' )
user  = ENV['ZERIGO_USER']
key   = ENV['ZERIGO_KEY']
raise "set ZERIGO_USER" unless user
raise "set ZERIGO_KEY" unless key
raise "set DNS_BACKUP_DIR" unless key

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How to extract a single file with its history from a git repository

These steps show two less common interactions with git to extract a single file which is inside a subfolder from a git repository. These steps essentially reduce the repository to just the desired files and should performed on a copy of the original repository (1.).

First the repository is reduced to just the subfolder containing the files in question using git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter (2.) which is a useful step by itself if just a subfolder needs to be extracted. This step moves the desired files to the top level of the repository.

Finally all remaining files are listed using git ls, the files to keep are removed from that using grep -v and the resulting list is passed to git rm which is invoked by git filter-branch --index-filter (3.). A bit convoluted but it does the trick.

1. copy the repository to extract the file from and go to the desired branch

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The idea is to have nginx installed and node installed. I will extend this gist to include how to install those as well, but at the moment, the following assumes you have nginx 0.7.62 and node 0.2.3 installed on a Linux distro (I used Ubuntu).

In a nutshell,

1. nginx is used to serve static files (css, js, images, etc.)
2. node serves all the "dynamic" stuff.

So for example, www.foo.com request comes and your css, js, and images get served thru nginx while everything else (the request for say index.html or "/") gets served through node.

3. nginx listens on port 80.

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Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

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# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

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/*
 * parse_link_header()
 *
 * Parse the Github Link HTTP header used for pageination
 * http://developer.github.com/v3/#pagination
 */
function parse_link_header(header) {
  if (header.length == 0) {
    throw new Error("input must not be of zero length");
  }

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#
# Wide-open CORS config for nginx
#
location / {

     if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {

        add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
        
        #

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.gist {
  color: #000;
}

  .gist div {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
  }

  .gist .gist-file {

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#Newbie programmer
def factorial(x):
    if x == 0:
        return 1
    else:
        return x * factorial(x - 1)
print factorial(6)


#First year programmer, studied Pascal

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# USAGE: Hash.from_xml(YOUR_XML_STRING)require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
# modified from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1230741/convert-a-nokogiri-document-to-a-ruby-hash/1231297#123129
7

class Hash
  class << self
    def from_xml(xml_io)
      begin
        result = Nokogiri::XML(xml_io)