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sjl / html.vim
Created October 19, 2011 13:51
Tired of your Mustache/Underscore templates in <script type="text/html"> tags getting highlighted as Javascript in Vim? Change line 167 of /Applications/MacVim.app/Contents/Resources/vim/runtime/syntax/html.vim to this!
syn region javaScript start=+<script[^>]*type="text/javascript"[^>]*>+ keepend end=+</script>+me=s-1 contains=@htmlJavaScript,htmlCssStyleComment,htmlScriptTag,@htmlPreproc
@max-mapper
max-mapper / readme.md
Created September 28, 2011 02:01
SLEEP - syncable.org

Your API does REST, but can it SLEEP?

SLEEP (Syncable Lightweight Event Emitting Persistence) is an emerging standard for distributed data sync using HTTP and JSON. A generalized version of CouchDB's much lauded built-in replication, SLEEP extends the REST architecture to define a way in which databases can offer syncable JSON APIs that foster open data innovation by allowing developers to replicate entire databases over the net.

SLEEP comes from the Apache CouchDB project which is now widely known for it's multi-master streaming HTTP + JSON replication. This is possible in part because of the CouchDB _changes feed, which is a particular API that lets you see if there have been any changes made to the database since last time you synchronized. CouchDB can efficiently implement the _changes feed because of one subtle difference between it and most other databases: it stores a history of all changes that happen to the database, including deletes.

If you synchronize data from a remote source and then the

@chriseppstein
chriseppstein / 0_selector_hacks.scss
Created September 14, 2011 04:27
This gist demonstrates some uses of the new sass feature: Passing content blocks to mixins.
@mixin ie6 { * html & { @content } }
#logo {
background-image: url("/images/logo.png");
@include ie6 { background-image: url("/images/logo.gif"); }
}
@cdmwebs
cdmwebs / friendly_urls.markdown
Created September 11, 2011 15:50 — forked from jcasimir/friendly_urls.markdown
Friendly URLs in Rails

Friendly URLs

By default, Rails applications build URLs based on the primary key -- the id column from the database. Imagine we have a Person model and associated controller. We have a person record for Bob Martin that has id number 6. The URL for his show page would be:

/people/6

But, for aesthetic or SEO purposes, we want Bob's name in the URL. The last segment, the 6 here, is called the "slug". Let's look at a few ways to implement better slugs.

@defunkt
defunkt / gitio
Created September 11, 2011 08:11
Turn a github.com URL into a git.io URL.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Usage: gitio URL [CODE]
#
# Turns a github.com URL
# into a git.io URL
#
# Copies the git.io URL to your clipboard.
url = ARGV[0]
code = ARGV[1]
@metaskills
metaskills / wait_until.rb
Last active May 2, 2024 01:51
Never sleep() using Capybara!
# WAIT! Do consider that `wait` may not be needed. This article describes
# that reasoning. Please read it and make informed decisions.
# https://www.varvet.com/blog/why-wait_until-was-removed-from-capybara/
# Have you ever had to sleep() in Capybara-WebKit to wait for AJAX and/or CSS animations?
describe 'Modal' do
should 'display login errors' do
visit root_path
@devongovett
devongovett / adding_pages.coffee
Created July 10, 2011 16:22
PDFKit examples
doc.addPage
size: 'legal'
layout: 'landscape'
@ericboehs
ericboehs / Fresh-Install.markdown
Last active July 24, 2023 08:16
What I do after a fresh install of Mac OS X
@baijum
baijum / selenium_with_python.rst
Last active February 17, 2025 10:54
Selenium with Python
@czottmann
czottmann / Procfile
Created June 15, 2011 13:43
Example of a Foreman/Capistrano/upstart setup
worker: QUEUE=* bundle exec rake environment resque:work
scheduler: bundle exec rake environment resque:scheduler