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dougalcorn / gist:724257

Created December 1, 2010 21:26

initializing hash with default values

	data = []
	((90.days.ago.to_date)..Date.today).each do \|date\|
	date = date.to_formatted_s(:db)
	value = db_data.has_key?(date) ? db_data[date] : 0
	data << [date, value]
	end

dougalcorn / gist:732472

Created December 7, 2010 21:44

parse an xsd and pull out our complext types that extend "Entity"

	filename = Rails.root.join("2-XML Schema", "[OSA-EAI-CCOM-ML-XSD-V03-2]CCOM-ML_V3-2-3 (2010-11-30).xsd")
	doc = Nokogiri::XML(File.read(filename))

	def complex_types_of(doc,base)
	hash = {}
	doc.xpath("//xs:extension[@base='#{base}']").each do \|extension\|
	complex_type = extension.parent.parent
	name = complex_type[:name]
	hash[name] = complex_types_of(doc,name)
	end

dougalcorn / extend_pattern.rb

Created December 18, 2010 15:29

Simple pattern for how to write modules

	module ExtendThroughInclude

	def included(klass)
	klass.extend(ClassMethods)
	klass.send(:include, InstanceMethods)
	end


	class InstanceMethods
	end

dougalcorn / harvest_api_sample.rb

Created December 18, 2010 15:39

copied from harvest api docs with some tweaks

	########################################################################
	#
	# harvest-sample.rb
	#
	# Basic API demo. Use this sample as a starting point on how to
	# connect, authenticate, and send requests to the Harvest API and
	# handle the API throttle limit. This is not a libary, if you want one
	# for Ruby, we recommend investigating ActiveResource::Base.
	#
	# To execute this sample, save this file to your computer and

dougalcorn / aligned_form_inputs.html

Created December 18, 2010 15:41

super simplistic form with css to make it line up right

	<!-- http://www.quirksmode.org/css/forms.html -->
	<html>
	<head>
	<style>
	label,input {
	display: block;
	width: 150px;
	float: left;
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	}

dougalcorn / locateble.rb

Created December 23, 2010 18:03

Basic ruby blass with parts of an address that can be assembled into a string and geolocated with Google Maps api

	GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY = "something"

	# This is a plain old ruby class that assumes someone has give it the
	# parts of an address. The end goal is to use Google to geolocate it
	# and assign a lat/long
	class Locateable
	attr_accessor :street1, :street2, :city, :state, :country
	attr_accessor :latitude, :longitude, :accuracy

	# returns false if google was unable to geolocate the

dougalcorn / kit.rb

Created December 30, 2010 20:34

Non-trivial factory_girl with associations

	Factory.define(:kit) do \|f\|
	f.association :primary_palette, :factory => :palette # association doesn't match class name
	f.association :secondary_palette, :factory => :palette
	f.association :user, :factory => :user
	f.sequence(:name) { \|i\| "Kit#{i}" }
	f.bg_images { \|images\| [images.association(:attachment)] } # has_many assoc
	f.default false
	f.display_fonts { [Factory(:font), Factory(:font)] }
	f.body_font { Factory(:font) }
	end

dougalcorn / active_model_initialize.rb

Created December 30, 2010 21:34

some template code using ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity to initialize with hash

	class Person
	include ActiveModel::MassAssignmentSecurity

	attr_accessor :name, :birthday, :handsomeness
	attr_protected :handsomeness

	def initialize(params = {})
	self.attributes = params
	end

dougalcorn / gist:842807

Created February 24, 2011 20:18

rvm jruby problem with scripts

	$ bundle
	/Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.5.6@mimosa2/bin/bundle: line 9: require: command not found
	/Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.5.6@mimosa2/bin/bundle: line 11: version: command not found
	/Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.5.6@mimosa2/bin/bundle: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token `('
	/Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.5.6@mimosa2/bin/bundle: line 13: `if ARGV.first =~ /^_(.*)_$/ and Gem::Version.correct? $1 then'
	$ which bundle
	/Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.5.6@mimosa2/bin/bundle
	$ ls -l `which bundle`
	-rwxr-xr-x 1 dalcorn staff 410 Feb 24 15:09 /Users/dalcorn/.rvm/gems/jruby-1.5.6@mimosa2/bin/bundle*
	$ head `which bundle`

Created May 11, 2011 22:02

	From 7b7505ad8836f6fa9e613a29534bb9536defea44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
	From: Doug Alcorn <[email protected]>
	Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 16:59:45 -0400
	Subject: [PATCH] updating the few attribute types from value_class number to
	measure [#13103329]

	---
	3-XML-Ref-Data/CCOM Reference Data.xml \| 12 ++++++------
	1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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