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  $.fn.typist = function (content) {
    var current = [];
    var remaining = content.split(/.{0}/);
    var self = this;

    return this.each(function () {
      function typist () {
        setTimeout(function () {
          current.push(remaining.shift());
          self.val(current.join(""));

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Motivation

We recently were working on a project where the version of Firefox on the development machines was causing acceptance tests running on Capybara and Selenium to fail and/or hang erroneously. The solution was to point Selenium at a custom version of Firefox. We also added the Firefox binaries to the application git repo so that all devs could run against a known good version of Firefox.

Solution

1. Download the desired version of Firefox from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

2. Put Firefox.app in your rails app somewhere like ./bin/spec/macosx/

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#!/bin/sh
# For simplicity's sake I dump this file in the project folder and execute 
# it from the VM straight out of /vagrant -> could run as part of box/basebox buildout.

alias apt-get="sudo apt-get"
alias mount="sudo mount"
alias umount="sudo umount"

# Oh. Start by making .vbox_version contain the desired version string.
VBOX_VERSION=$(cat /home/vagrant/.vbox_version)

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'securerandom'
require 'pp'

# NormalRand is an attempt to port the Java implementation from Wikipedia
# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsaglia_polar_method>
#
# private static double spare;
# private static boolean isSpareReady = false;

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'pp'
require 'benchmark'
require 'csv'
require 'securerandom'

# Generates normally distributed random numbers given a mean and a
# standard deviation.
#

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#!/bin/sh
#
# Shell script that configures gnome-terminal to use solarized theme
# colors. Written for Ubuntu 11.10, untested on anything else.
#
# Solarized theme: http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
# 
# Adapted from these sources:
# https://gist.github.com/1280177
# http://xorcode.com/guides/solarized-vim-eclipse-ubuntu/

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require 'yaml'
require 'logger'
require 'active_record'

namespace :db do
  def create_database config
    options = {:charset => 'utf8', :collation => 'utf8_unicode_ci'}

    create_db = lambda do |config|
      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection config.merge('database' => nil)

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class MyClass
  def initialize
    @thevalue = 42
  end

  def omg
    yield @thevalue
  end
end

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module Awesome
  def self.Stuff(thingy)
    Module.new do
      class_methods = Module.new do
        attr_accessor :thingy
      end

      define_singleton_method :included do |klass|
        klass.extend(class_methods)
        klass.thingy = thingy

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module Refines
  refine Array do
    def strictly_increasing?
      each_cons(2).all? {|x, y| x < y }
    end
  end

  refine String do
    def char_indexes
      each_char