Jacqui Lough jacqui

Software engineer & journalist @news-catalyst, formerly @nytimes @bbcnews @vogue @esquire & the valley, now living in the beautiful boondocks of Australia.

jacqui / Rails MongoMapper Template.rb

Created December 10, 2009 02:35 — forked from banker/Rails MongoMapper Template.rb

Removed the application layout file as it kept barfing on it

	# mongo_template.rb
	# fork of Ben Scofield's Rails MongoMapper Template (http://gist.github.com/181842)
	#
	# To use:
	# rails project_name -m http://gist.github.com/253067.txt

	# remove unneeded defaults
	run "rm public/index.html"
	run "rm public/images/rails.png"
	run "rm public/javascripts/controls.js"

jacqui / bar.rb

Created December 10, 2009 03:37

	class Bar
	include MongoMapper::Document
	normalize_attributes :name
	key :name, String

	end

jacqui / gist:253548

Created December 10, 2009 18:34

	>> project.forms.size
	# => 1

	>> f = project.forms.build(:name => "foo", :headline => "bar")
	# => #<Form name: "foo", slug: nil, thanks: nil, section: nil, nyt_wrapper: true, intro: nil, custom_css: nil, created_at: nil, submission_email: nil, image_count: 0, project_id: 4b05c1cb3fe2266174000001, updated_at: nil, _id: nil, headline: "bar", subject_filter: nil, notification_emails: [], header: nil, custom_js: nil, version: nil, image_upload: true, text_count: 0, status: "pending", keywords: nil, submission_count: 0>

	>> f.save
	# => true

	>> project.forms.size

jacqui / .git-completion.bash

Created December 11, 2009 15:31

git tab completion and displaying branch in prompt - yay!

	#
	# bash completion support for core Git.
	#
	# Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Shawn O. Pearce <[email protected]>
	# Conceptually based on gitcompletion (http://gitweb.hawaga.org.uk/).
	# Distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.0.
	#
	# The contained completion routines provide support for completing:
	#
	# *) local and remote branch names

jacqui / gist:254565

Created December 11, 2009 22:32

	root@int-shared-stg:~# gem install bcrypt-ruby
	Building native extensions. This could take a while...
	Successfully installed bcrypt-ruby-2.1.2
	1 gem installed
	Installing ri documentation for bcrypt-ruby-2.1.2...
	Installing RDoc documentation for bcrypt-ruby-2.1.2...

jacqui / .irbrc

Created January 8, 2010 16:37

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'pp'

	unless self.class.const_defined? "IRB_RC_HAS_LOADED"
	# Log to STDOUT if in Rails
	if ENV.include?('RAILS_ENV') && !Object.const_defined?('RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER')
	require 'logger'
	RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER = Logger.new(STDOUT)
	end

jacqui / Negativland Time Zones Lyrics:

Created January 8, 2010 19:11

	The Autonomous Komi Republic,
	which is part of the Russian
	Federation, is situated in the
	far northwest of Europe, and
	spreads up to
	the Arctic part of the Ural Mountains.
	It's crossed by 9 northern
	parallels. Ten fair-sized European
	states could be placed on its
	territory. Besides indigenous

jacqui / truncate_sentences.rb

Created January 11, 2010 23:03

	truncated = sentences.inject(sentences.first) do \|memo, sentence\|
	if memo.split.size < limit
	memo.concat(" ").concat(sentence)
	else
	memo
	end
	end

jacqui / truncate_sentences_bettah.rb

Created January 11, 2010 23:05

	def truncate_text(input = "", limit = 15)
	words = input.split
	return input if words.size <= limit

	truncated_words = words[0..limit-1]
	i = nil
	last_punctuated_word = truncated_words.reverse.detect.with_index{\|p,i\| p.match(/[\.\!\?]/) }
	last_word_index = truncated_words.index(i)
	words[0..last_word_index].join(' ')
	end

jacqui / rescue.rb

Created January 12, 2010 20:53

	rescue_from ActiveResource::BadRequest, :with => :ar_bad_request
	def ar_bad_request(e)
	@message = e.message
	respond_to do \|format\|
	format.html { render :template => "#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/something.html", :layout => false, :status => 400}
	format.xml { render :template => "api/something.xml", :status => 400, :content_type => 'application/xml' }
	format.json { render :template => "api/something.json", :status => 400, :content_type => 'application/json' }
	end
	end