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Speedup Rails Asset Pipeline precompile process

This post is based on my blog post: http://blog.xdite.net/posts/2012/07/09/3-way-to-speedup-asset-pipeline/

Here are my three tips for speedup asset pipeline precompile process:

Capistrano deployment speedup
Use @import carefully.
don’t require .scss & .coffee for no reason

Mac web developer apps

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— Erik

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	FSCRIPT_PATH = "/Library/Frameworks/FScript.framework"

	GDB = IO.popen("gdb", "w")
	def gdb(cmd)
	GDB.puts cmd
	GDB.flush
	end

	-- Save this to your documents and tell Alfred to look for (and execute AppleScripts).
	-- There has never been an easier to way to toggle hidden files in Finder.

	try
	set state to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles" as string
	if state is "0" then
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool TRUE"
	else
	do shell script "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool FALSE"
	end if

	$ chmod +x ./proxy_list_fetcher.rb
	$ ./proxy_list_fetcher.rb \| head
	180.94.88.58 8080 Afghanistan fast HTTPS High +KA
	187.87.155.2 8080 Brazil fast HTTPS High +KA
	120.132.132.119 8080 China medium HTTPS High +KA
	210.211.109.244 8081 Viet Nam fast HTTP Low
	216.244.71.143 3128 United States medium HTTPS High +KA
	190.237.224.22 8080 Peru slow HTTPS High +KA

	test:
	adapter: sqlite3
	encoding: utf8
	pool: 5
	timeout: 5000
	database: ":memory:"
	verbosity: quiet

	if [ -f "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm" ]; then
	source "$rvm_path/scripts/rvm"

	if [ -f ".rvmrc" ]; then
	source ".rvmrc"
	fi

	if [ -f ".ruby-version" ]; then
	rvm use `cat .ruby-version`
	fi

	require 'watir-webdriver'

	capabilities = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Capabilities.phantomjs("phantomjs.page.settings.userAgent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1468.0 Safari/537.36")
	driver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :phantomjs, :desired_capabilities => capabilities
	browser = ::Watir::Browser.new driver

	# Quick test to make sure it's set

	browser.goto 'http://www.useragentstring.com/'
	browser.textarea(:id => "uas_textfeld").value

	source :rubygems
	gem "puma"
	gem "sinatra"