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Notes on the Bassistance jQuery Autocomplete plugin

This plugin has some key features we employ, that I’ve yet to find in others, so we’ve stuck with it. But, it also has some bugs or idiosyncrasies that have made it quite frustrating at times. These notes are now my catalog of these issues.

Reasons we’re using it

Some of the reasons we’re using this plugin vs. others:

• returned results can contain HTML to affect a style
• returned results can include data, not just the matching text to put in the field. This allows us to match an item, and then inject other data that we need into the DOM. For example, matching a city, it lets us store the city’s ID, its state, and country, in hidden form fields, so that we can send that data to a third party site if needed (e.g. metasearch). This reason alone prevents using any other plugin I’ve seen (including the new autocomplete in jQuery UI 1.8).

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# Cucumber 0.7.0 prerelease issue, contact chris at cobaltedge dot com
# The following error was due to having a feature file that was entirely commented out, with except to the tag,
# so the feature file looked like:
#    @hotels
#    # Feature:
#    # ...
# This problem was fixed simply by also commenting out the tag :)

Using the default profile...
Parse error on line 2. Found comment when expecting one of: examples, feature, scenario, scenario_outline, tag. (Current state: tag). (Gherkin::Parser::ParseError)

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-- SQL to calculate the size of your database (data, indexes, total).
-- Replace the "DATABASE_NAME in the 2nd to last line with the name of your DB
SELECT concat( table_schema, '.', table_name ) table_name,
   concat( round( data_length / ( 1024 *1024 ) , 2 ) , 'M' ) data_length,
   concat( round( index_length / ( 1024 *1024 ) , 2 ) , 'M' ) index_length,
   concat( round( round( data_length + index_length ) / ( 1024 *1024 ) , 2 ) , 'M' ) total_size
   FROM information_schema.TABLES
   WHERE table_schema = 'DATABASE_NAME'
   ORDER BY data_length DESC;

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.danga.memcached</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/usr/local/bin/memcached</string>
      <string>-d</string>

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#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          tracker_github_hook
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      S 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Pivotal Tracker-GitHub post-receive hook service
# Description:       GitHub post-receive hook.  This runs the service (via Sinatra app).
### END INIT INFO

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if ($request_uri ~* ^(.+)\?page=1$) {
  set $dom_prefix $1;
  set $args '';
  rewrite ^(.*)$ $scheme://$host$dom_prefix permanent;
  break;
}
if ($request_uri ~* ^(.+)\?page=(\d+)$) {
  set $dom_prefix $1;
  set $page $2;
  set $args '';

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#!script/runner
# Script to simply go through and save all active deals, so we update their Affiliate association

page = 1
loop do
  deals = Deal.active.paginate(:per_page => 100, :page => page)
  deals.each do |deal| 
    Deal.without_revision { 
      begin
        deal.save 

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# Ruby benchmarking example
Benchmark.bm(5) do |timer|
  
  date_range = [1.month.ago.to_date, 6.months.from_now.to_date]
  timer.report('old way') do
    10.times do
      # do the old way of code here
    end
  end
  timer.report('new way') do

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#!script/runner
# Use script/runner to execute a route/controller action - delete this line in real life, it's just here to help me know which gist this is.
require 'action_controller/integration'

session = ActionController::Integration::Session.new
session.host = 'www.yourdomain.com'

session.get_via_redirect '/controller/action'

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require 'autotest/redgreen'

module Autotest::Growl
  def self.growl(title, msg, img, pri=0, stick="")
    system "/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -n autotest --image #{img} -p #{pri} -m #{msg.inspect} #{title} #{stick}" 
  end
  
  Autotest.add_hook :ran_command do |at|
    results = at.results.last