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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Author  => Jason Amster
# Email => jayamster@gmail.com
# Time.now => Thu Jul 16 17:33:50 -0400 2009
# Purpose => To get those friggin error codes off of Authorize.net and into somthing i can actually use

require 'rubygems'
require "activesupport"
require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

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def pph(hash, depth=0, output="")
  if hash.is_a?(Hash)
    carriage_return = depth > 0 ? "\n" : ""
    output <<  carriage_return
    hash.each do |key, val| 
      output <<   "\t" * depth + "#{key}\t=>\t#{pph(val, depth+1)}"
    end
  elsif hash.is_a?(Array)
    return "["+hash.join(", ")+"]" +"\n"
  else

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User.find(:all, :conditions =>  "created_at BETWEEN '2004-01-01 12:00:00' AND 2005-01-01 12:00:00")

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#!/bin/bash

echo "Setting up chef..."

sudo apt-get -y update  
sudo apt-get -y install ruby ruby1.8-dev libopenssl-ruby1.8 rdoc ri irb build-essential wget ssl-cert

cd /tmp
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/57643/rubygems-1.3.4.tgz
tar zxf rubygems-1.3.4.tgz

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require "rubygems"
require "crack"
xml = <<-XML
<parent_node>
  <content>
    <item attr1="test">this is a string that ruins my life</item>
    <item attr1="i am an attribute and i live nicely in the world of hashes" />
  </content>
</parent_node>
XML

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# Simple extension to string to cut out the middle and leave the beginning and end
class String
  def middle_truncate(n, options={})
    return self if self.length <= n
    elipses = options.delete(:elipses) || 3
    side = (n/2 - elipses/2)
    left_side = (elipses % 2 == 0) ? side : side+1
    left, right = self[0..left_side], self[(self.length-side+elipses)..self.length]
    elipses_text = "." * elipses
    return "#{left}#{elipses_text}#{right}"

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# An extension to the Hash class to inspect what it is made of
class Hash
  def whatami
    keys.inject({}) do |hash, key|
      hash[key] = case self[key].class.to_s
      when "Hash"
        self[key].whatami
      when "Array"
        self[key].map do |item|
          

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# Removing libraries, and specifying plugins
config.frameworks -= [:action_controller, :action_view, :action_mailer, :active_resource]
config.plugins = [:acts_as_state_machine, :masochism, :resque]

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# Taken and Modified from  => \
# http://t-a-w.blogspot.com/2010/05/very-simple-parallelization-with-ruby.html
require "rubygems"
require "active_support"

require 'thread'

def Exception.ignoring_exceptions
  begin
    yield

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1) Just getting the install process down....
	a) bootstrapping a server is really confusing
		- you need to install a bunch of libraries 
		- you need to install a bunch of gems
		- you need to install chef-solo
		- you need to tell chef-solo to turn into a chef-server
	b) validation.pem
		- so basically, you have to realize that this is a temporary key but you kind of have to manually install it on any new machine?  No better way to do this?
2) Cookbooks, how do you manage them?
		- I had difficulty in understanding that chef server is just a process (or group of them) and then you give it cookbooks to work with