Dan Cheail dnch

Big, sweet, nerdy, beardy dork. Prone to occasional curmdugeonliness.

dnch / helper.rb

Created April 9, 2009 05:52 — forked from benaskins/helper.rb

	def v1(value)
	value \|\| "-"
	end

	def v2(object, method)
	object && value = object.send(method) ? value : "-"
	end

dnch / thing.rb

Created April 28, 2009 00:35

	# assuming the following columns in `things`
	#
	# children_counter_cache :integer
	# parent_id :integer
	#
	class Thing < ActiveRecord::Base
	has_many :children, :class_name => "Thing", :foreign_key => "parent_id", :dependent => :nullify
	belongs_to :parent, :class_name => "Thing", :foreign_key => "parent_id", :counter_cache => 'children_counter_cache'
	end

dnch / gist:102857

Created April 28, 2009 00:51

	namespace :db do

	desc "Generates ownership queries"
	task :chown => :environment do
	ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.sort.each do \|t\|
	puts "ALTER TABLE #{t} OWNER TO radius;"
	end
	end

	desc "Migrate database from MySQL to PostgreSQL"

dnch / gist:117880

Created May 26, 2009 03:57 — forked from cherring/gist:117876

	# named_scope :between, lambda {\|start_date, end_date, field\|
	# { :conditions => ["\"#{field}\" >= ? AND \"#{field}\" <= ?", start_date, end_date] }
	# }

	From the docs...
	A range may be used in the hash to use the SQL BETWEEN operator

	Student.find(:all, :conditions => { :grade => 9..12 })

dnch / gist:119776

Created May 29, 2009 03:54

	// the DOM is wacky
	targetTabHeight: function() {

	this.targetTab().style.visibility = "hidden";
	this.targetTab().style.display = "block";
	_height = this.targetTab().offsetHeight;
	this.targetTab().style.display = "none";
	this.targetTab().style.visibility = "visible";

	return _height;

dnch / report.rb

Created June 5, 2009 03:44

	class Report
	# ENGINEERING MACHINATIONS
	machine(:status, :field_name => "status") do

	# we are waiting for someone to upload a file
	state :file_pending do
	event :upload_file, :to => :file_uploaded
	end

	# we've got a file, but it's not approved by a hu-man

dnch / gist:137979

Created June 30, 2009 03:54

dnch / gist:188386

Created September 17, 2009 07:02

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'zip/zip'
	require 'zip/zipfilesystem'
	require 'digest/md5'

	Dir.glob("/Users/dan/Desktop/SAMPLE_DATA/*/.zip").each do \|f\|
	begin
	puts "hash: " + Digest::MD5.hexdigest(Zip::ZipFile.open(f).read("fx.txt"))

dnch / survey

Created November 2, 2009 00:56 — forked from radar/survey.md

	What did you do to get good at Rails?
	Who taught you what you know?
	Do you have any fond (or not so fond) memories of your learning experiences?
	What was your first production app and what did you learn from it?
	What tools do you use to make your life easier?
	What did you find particularly hard to grok when learning Rails?
	When did you start on Rails?
	Did you learn Ruby first or try to jump straight into Rails?
	Did you read any books to get good at Rails?
	What system do you use?

dnch / rounded_corners.sass

Created November 10, 2009 03:54