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# I use this in conjunction with Contentful CMS to render blocks of markdown into my static middleman templates.

# In your gemfile, add Redcarpet:
gem 'redcarpet'

# ...and do a bundle install

# In your config.rb, add this line:
set :markdown_engine, :redcarpet

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Note: You need to have to Heroku PGBackup addon first heroku addons:add pgbackups..

Importing Heroku PG DB to local

Creates the backup on heroku first:

heroku pgbackups:capture

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How to seed a Rails database with a CSV file

1. Setup

First, Create a folder inside of lib called seeds

Put your CSV file example.csv into the lib/seeds folder. In the example below, the file is called real_estate_transactions.csv

Make sure you've created a resource with the appropriate columns to match your seed data. The names don't have to match up.

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Using <details> in GitHub

Suppose you're opening an issue and there's a lot noisey logs that may be useful.

Rather than wrecking readability, wrap it in a <details> tag!

<details>
 <summary>Summary Goes Here</summary>

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# Read and write spreadsheets with ruby using the spreadsheet gem
# Full Docs: http://spreadsheet.rubyforge.org/GUIDE_txt.html

require 'spreadsheet'

# Open source spreadsheet
workbook = Spreadsheet.open 'source.xls'

# READ

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# run using ```rvm jruby-1.6.7 do  jruby "-J-Xmx2000m" "--1.9" tej.rb```

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'
require 'csv'

f = File.open("/tmp/preview.html")
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(f)
csv = CSV.open("/tmp/output.csv", 'w',{:col_sep => ",", :quote_char => '\'', :force_quotes => true})