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bensie / attachment_tasks.rb

Created February 3, 2009 15:49 — forked from andrewtimberlake/attachment_tasks.rb

	require 'right_aws'

	namespace :utils do
	namespace :attachments do
	task :initialize_s3 => :environment do
	s3_config = YAML.load_file(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '/../../config/amazon_s3.yml'))
	s3_config = s3_config[RAILS_ENV].to_options

	@s3 = RightAws::S3.new(s3_config[:access_key_id], s3_config[:secret_access_key])
	end

bensie / gist:58877

Created February 5, 2009 18:00 — forked from rails/gist:58761

	var DateHelper = {
	// Takes the format of "Jan 15, 2007 15:45:00 GMT" and converts it to a relative time
	// Ruby strftime: %b %d, %Y %H:%M:%S GMT
	time_ago_in_words_with_parsing: function(from) {
	var date = new Date;
	date.setTime(Date.parse(from));
	return this.time_ago_in_words(date);
	},

	time_ago_in_words: function(from) {

bensie / gist:58882

Created February 5, 2009 18:01 — forked from mislav/gist:58799

	document.observe("dom:loaded", function() {
	function updateElementsWithTime() {
	$$("span[time]").invoke('updateTime')
	}

	// update immediately
	updateElementsWithTime()
	// continue updating every 2 minutes
	new PeriodicalExecuter(updateElementsWithTime, 60 * 2)
	})

bensie / jd.rb

Created February 7, 2009 01:54

	#/usr/bin/ruby

	name = 1
	300.times do
	`time dd if=/dev/zero of=#{name}.bin bs=100000 count=1`
	name += 1
	end

bensie / gist:61089

Created February 9, 2009 23:19

	# controllers/application.rb
	def current_cart
	if session[:cart_id]
	@current_cart \|\|= Cart.find(session[:cart_id])
	session[:cart_id] = nil if @current_cart.purchased_at
	end
	if session[:cart_id].nil?
	@current_cart = Cart.create!
	session[:cart_id] = @current_cart.id
	end

bensie / environment.rb

Created February 18, 2009 15:10

Rails sanitize() method usage

	# Add safe tags to sanitize method

	Rails::Initializer.run do \|config\|
	config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_tags = 'table', 'tr', 'td'
	config.action_view.sanitized_allowed_attributes = 'id', 'class', 'style'
	end

bensie / gist:66779

Created February 19, 2009 07:42 — forked from technoweenie/gist:66722

	# If cached file exists, serve it and stop processing
	RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /cache/%{HTTP_HOST}$1 [L]

	# other redirection (imgs, js, css, ...)
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !./mephisto/.
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*html
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cache
	RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/cache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 -f

bensie / gist:67784

Created February 20, 2009 23:45

Safari - open new window links in a new tab

	# How to set Safari to open links targeted for a new window in a new tab

	defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

bensie / deploy.rb

Created February 21, 2009 02:05 — forked from defunkt/deploy.rb

	# deploy to staging from your current topic branch, with ease
	set :branch, "origin/#{`git branch`.scan(/^\* (\S+)/)}"

bensie / birthday.sql

Created February 23, 2009 19:00

Get upcoming birthdays with SQL (discarding the year)

	SELECT users.`firstname` AS first,
	users.`lastname` AS last,
	user_details.`birthday` AS birthday
	FROM users
	LEFT OUTER JOIN user_details ON user_details.user_id = users.id
	WHERE
	STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(birthday,'%m-%d'),'%m-%d') >= STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(now(),'%m-%d'),'%m-%d')
	AND
	STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(birthday,'%m-%d'),'%m-%d') < STR_TO_DATE(DATE_FORMAT(now()+INTERVAL 7 DAY,'%m-%d'),'%m-%d');