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App Commentary

This is mostly a list of Mac applications, but I've included a few Web apps as well.

Every-Day Awesomeness

Alfred : Useful Application Launcher. (When Quicksilver died I switched to Alfred.)

Divvy : Grid-Based Window Manager.

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class UrlValidator < ActiveModel::EachValidator

  def validate_each(record, attribute, value)
    valid = begin
      URI.parse(value).kind_of?(URI::HTTP)
    rescue URI::InvalidURIError
      false
    end
    unless valid
      record.errors[attribute] << (options[:message] || "is an invalid URL")

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
# a reboot after is often a good idea

sudo apt-get -y install build-essential libffi-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline6-dev libssl-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libyaml-dev ncurses-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev

RUBY_VERSION="1.9.3-p194"
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src

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# Currently used in a Rails 3.2.6 application
#
# Notes:
# * add 'faraday' to your Gemfile
# * put this file in '#{Rails.root}/lib/alchemy_api.rb'
# * `export ALCHEMY_API_KEY="..."` in your shell
#
class AlchemyAPI
  
  attr_accessor :api_key, :base_url

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Running redis using upstart on Ubuntu

I've been trying to understand how to setup systems from the ground up on Ubuntu. I just installed redis onto the box and here's how I did it and some things to look out for.

To install:

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How to compile Gitx:

1. Open GitX.xcodeproj in XCode.
2. Switch scheme from cli-tool to GitX.
3. Press ⇧⌘R (shortcut for: Product > Build For > Running).
4. Press ⇧⌘2 to open the Organizer.
5. Open the DerivedData folder shown in the Organizer window. (For example: ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/GitX-fpvndnywvssxinenuifhoszinvmk)
6. Run the GitX.app located in {FOLDER}/Build/Products/Debug/GitX.app

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# Derive your workers from BaseWorker, but don't use it directly.
class BaseWorker

  def self.perform(params)
    document = find_document(params)
    return if recently_processed?(document, params)
    pre_process(document, params) or return
    process_and_mark_as_processed(document, params) or return
    post_process(document, params)
  end

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# encoding: utf-8

STDOUT.sync = true
STDERR.sync = true

require 'pathname'

at_exit do
  if (e = $!) && !e.instance_of?(SystemExit)
    require "#{ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH']}/lib/escape"

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##################### ElasticSearch Configuration Example #####################

# This file contains an overview of various configuration settings,
# targeted at operations staff. Application developers should
# consult the guide at <http://elasticsearch.org/guide>.
#
# The installation procedure is covered at
# <http://elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/setup/installation.html>.
#
# ElasticSearch comes with reasonable defaults for most settings,

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free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           989        945         43          0          8        143
-/+ buffers/cache:        793        195
Swap:          511        301        210