samqiu

#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rss'

# Usage
# $ ./railscasts.rb http://railscasts.com/subscriptions/YOURRAILSCASTRSS/\/
#     episodes.rss
# OR
# $ ./railscasts.rb

p 'Downloading rss index'

ungoldman

Deploy your own PaaS!

Setting up Dokku with DigitalOcean and Namecheap

..or how I made my own heroku in a few hours for $3.98.

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This write-up is several years out of date! You probably shouldn't use it.

anotheruiguy

Web fonts are pretty much all the rage. Using a CDN for font libraries, like TypeKit or Google Fonts, will be a great solution for many projects. For others, this is not an option. Especially when you are creating a custom icon library for your project.

Rails and the asset pipeline are great tools, but Rails has yet to get caught up in the custom web font craze.

As with all things Rails, there is more then one way to skin this cat. There is the recommended way, and then there are the other ways.

The recommended way

Here I will show how to update your Rails project so that you can use the asset pipeline appropriately and resource your files using the common Rails convention.

robmiller

require "benchmark"

def letters
  puts "letters() called"
  sleep 0.5
  "A-Za-z"
end

words = %w[the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog]

Chocksy

# FOR BUSY JOBS
# take the process_id from the /busy page in sidekiq and kill the longest running one.
workers = Sidekiq::Workers.new
long_process_id = 'integration.3:4:71111aaa111' # Eg: 'integration.3:4:71d1d7f4ef5a'
workers.each do |process_id, thread_id, work|
  process = Sidekiq::Process.new('identity' => process_id)
  process.stop! if process_id == long_process_id
end

# FOR SCHEDULED JOBS