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@machty
machty / new-router-examples.md
Last active April 16, 2020 22:03
How to do cool stuff with the new Router API
@josiahcarlson
josiahcarlson / prefix_code.py
Created May 6, 2013 16:29
Encode/decode sequences of integers to offer the ability to easily compare encoded sequences of integers as though they were decoded (which can be used to implement array comparisons in a database that doesn't offer native arrays).
'''
prefix_code.py
Copyright 2012-2013 Josiah Carlson
Released under the GNU LGPL v 2.1 license
This module offers the ability to encode/decode a sequence of integers into
strings that can then be used to compare sequences of integers (or paths on
trees) quickly. This module was originally intended to be used in a case-
preserving index in a relational database (where 'Z' comes before 'a', as is
@amejiarosario
amejiarosario / rails_migration_cheatsheet.md
Created June 18, 2012 21:40
Rails Migration - Cheatsheet
@rks
rks / gist:2577339
Created May 2, 2012 15:12
Wrapping exceptions in Ruby
class CustomError < StandardError
def initialize(e = nil)
super e
set_backtrace e.backtrace if e
end
end
def run
r = Runner.new
r.fail
@oodavid
oodavid / README.md
Created March 26, 2012 17:05
Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

Backup MySQL to Amazon S3

This is a simple way to backup your MySQL tables to Amazon S3 for a nightly backup - this is all to be done on your server :-)

Sister Document - Restore MySQL from Amazon S3 - read that next

1 - Install s3cmd

this is for Centos 5.6, see http://s3tools.org/repositories for other systems like ubuntu etc

@them0nk
them0nk / haml_cheatsheet.haml
Created March 25, 2012 08:39
haml cheatsheet
!!! strict
!!! XML
%html
-# Self closing tags
%img{:src => "happy.jpg"}/
%div.myclass
.myclass1
@them0nk
them0nk / rspec_rails_cheetsheet.rb
Created March 23, 2012 03:39
Rspec Rails cheatsheet (include capybara matchers)
#Model
@user.should have(1).error_on(:username) # Checks whether there is an error in username
@user.errors[:username].should include("can't be blank") # check for the error message
#Rendering
response.should render_template(:index)
#Redirecting
response.should redirect_to(movies_path)
@ryansully
ryansully / optimize.sh
Created February 1, 2012 23:56 — forked from realdeprez/optimize.sh
image optimization script (pngcrush & jpegtran)
#!/bin/sh
# script for optimizing images in a directory (recursive)
# pngcrush & jpegtran settings from:
# http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#opt_images
# pngcrush
for png in `find $1 -iname "*.png"`; do
echo "crushing $png ..."
pngcrush -rem alla -reduce -brute "$png" temp.png
@paulirish
paulirish / rAF.js
Last active May 28, 2025 23:25
requestAnimationFrame polyfill
// http://paulirish.com/2011/requestanimationframe-for-smart-animating/
// http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/12/20/requestanimationframe-for-smart-er-animating
// requestAnimationFrame polyfill by Erik Möller. fixes from Paul Irish and Tino Zijdel
// MIT license
(function() {
var lastTime = 0;
var vendors = ['ms', 'moz', 'webkit', 'o'];
@artero
artero / launch_sublime_from_terminal.markdown
Last active September 12, 2024 02:13 — forked from olivierlacan/launch_sublime_from_terminal.markdown
Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Launch Sublime Text 2 from the Mac OS X Terminal

Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.

open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl

You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html

Installation