aspyct

# Sample implementation of quicksort and mergesort in ruby
# Both algorithm sort in O(n * lg(n)) time
# Quicksort works inplace, where mergesort works in a new array

def quicksort(array, from=0, to=nil)
    if to == nil
        # Sort the whole array, by default
        to = array.count - 1
    end

juliuscsurgo

input[type="text"], textarea {
outline: none;
box-shadow:none !important;
border:1px solid #ccc !important;
}

gdamjan

What

A lot of times you are developing a web application on your own laptop or home computer and would like to demo it to the public. Most of those times you are behind a router/firewall and you don't have a public IP address. Instead of configuring routers (often not possible), this solution gives you a public URL that's reverse tunnelled via ssh to your laptop.

Because of the relaxation of the sshd setup, it's best used on a dedicated virtual machine just for this (an Amazon micro instance for example).

Requirements

ryansobol

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

hbrandl

Rails flash messages with AJAX requests & twitter-bootstrap 2.3

Forked from https://gist.github.com/linjunpop/3410235 Based on Stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10167659/656428

License: MIT

JohnColvin

Initial installation and rails-ification of fontello assets

Make a fonts asset dir

cd to your rails app and mkdir app/assets/fonts

Choose your icons and download them

• Browse to fontello.com
• Choose your fontello icons
• Click 'Download webfont'

be9

def paginate(scope, default_per_page = 20)
  collection = scope.page(params[:page]).per((params[:per_page] || default_per_page).to_i)

  current, total, per_page = collection.current_page, collection.num_pages, collection.limit_value

  return [{
    pagination: {
      current:  current,
      previous: (current > 1 ? (current - 1) : nil),
      next:     (current == total ? nil : (current + 1)),

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

plentz

# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

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.