Bruce Ackerman bcackerman

bcackerman / gist:6298673

Created August 21, 2013 18:58

Loop through large amounts of data in Rails without creating a huge object from ActiveRecord

	ActiveRecord::Base.uncached do
	# loop here
	end

bcackerman / gist:7617698

Created November 23, 2013 17:47

Background image that covers the background

	.wrapper {
	background-image: url('images/bg.jpg');
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: 0 0;
	-webkit-background-size: cover;
	-moz-background-size: cover;
	-o-background-size: cover;
	background-size: cover;
	}

bcackerman / Margin and padding elements

Last active December 29, 2015 11:59

Create a list of CSS elements that can be used in the view for margin/padding.

	@each $property in margin, padding {
	@each $location in top, right, bottom, left {
	@for $i from 0 through 15 {
	.#{$property}-#{$location}-#{$i * 10} { #{$property}-#{$location}: 10px * $i; }
	}
	}
	}

bcackerman / promise.js

Created June 8, 2014 19:15

JavaScript Promise example

bcackerman / stripe_mrr.rb

Last active August 29, 2015 14:09 — forked from sssionggg/mrr.rb

Stripe Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) Calculator

	require 'stripe'
	require 'ostruct'

	# modified & fixed for more subscription based Stripe account from: https://gist.github.com/jacobpatton/a68d228bf2414852d862
	#
	# puts Stripe::Mrr.new(api_key: 'api_key').report
	#
	module Stripe
	class Mrr
	attr_reader :api_key

bcackerman / gist:ea5df23b5bd59ca0d2a0

Created March 10, 2015 13:58

Rails' Locales with Country Names

	Country.create(:name => 'Afghanistan', :iso3 => 'AFG', :iso2 => 'AF', :numcode => 4)
	Country.create(:name => 'Åland Islands', :iso3 => 'ALA', :iso2 => 'AX', :numcode => 248)
	Country.create(:name => 'Albania', :iso3 => 'ALB', :iso2 => 'AL', :numcode => 8)
	Country.create(:name => 'Algeria', :iso3 => 'DZA', :iso2 => 'DZ', :numcode => 12)
	Country.create(:name => 'American Samoa', :iso3 => 'ASM', :iso2 => 'AS', :numcode => 16)
	Country.create(:name => 'Andorra', :iso3 => 'AND', :iso2 => 'AD', :numcode => 20)
	Country.create(:name => 'Angola', :iso3 => 'AGO', :iso2 => 'AO', :numcode => 24)
	Country.create(:name => 'Anguilla', :iso3 => 'AIA', :iso2 => 'AI', :numcode => 660)
	Country.create(:name => 'Antarctica', :iso3 => 'ATA', :iso2 => 'AQ', :numcode => 10)
	Country.create(:name => 'Antigua and Barbuda', :iso3 => 'ATG', :iso2 => 'AG', :numcode => 28)

bcackerman / File download on Heroku

Created August 17, 2016 20:51

Code to download a CSV file on Heroku (using Rails) and run a script on it

	# I'm using smarter-csv gem to help parse the CSV
	require 'net/ftp'

	filename = 'filename-here.csv'
	temp_file = Tempfile.new("download-#{filename}")
	temp_file.binmode
	import_options = {chunk_size: 10000, downcase_header: true, :row_sep => :auto, encoding: "UTF-8"}

	size = 0
	progress = 0

bcackerman / Store information from JSON in a temp file

Created August 19, 2016 16:31

	uri = URI('https://api.catalog.com/v2/products')

	Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do \|http\|
	request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri
	request.basic_auth 'user', 'pass'

	http.request request do \|response\|
	open 'temp_file_name', 'wb' do \|io\|
	response.read_body do \|chunk\|
	io.write chunk

bcackerman / Human class

Created July 27, 2017 07:26