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# Example Backbone.js app in CoffeeScript
# compile on each file save using the coffee bin
# coffee -b -c -w app.coffee



# BACKBONE.JS MODEL
class Blog extends Backbone.Model
  sync: -> "noop"
  url: ->

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#!/bin/bash

# get yesterdays date
datestring=`date -v"-1d" +%Y%m%d`
filename_gzipped=mydbbackup-$datestring.sql.gz
filename_gunzipped=mydbbackup-$datestring.sql
database_name=mydb

scp somegai@example.com:/home/somegai/backups/$filename_gzipped ~/backups/
gunzip ~/backups/$filename_gzipped

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Quickbooks OL-222 error help

Quickbooks QBO files are based on the OFX spec.
Instead of reading the spec, here are the actual real
world rules since Intuit doesn't appear to care about documentation or helping.

This is particularly useful if you want to avoid the "OL-222" error when
trying to import your own QBO files.

<STMTTRN>

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class SkinnyJeanDb < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.abstract_class = true
end

SkinnyJeanDb.establish_connection(:adapter => 'sqlite3', :database => @sqlite_db_path)

class Pageview < SkinnyJeanDb; end

Pageview.count

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/* CSS */

$height: 85px;
$width:  700px;

.container { position: relative }
.card {
  height: $height;
  width:  $width;
  z-index: 1;

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# convert ruby hash to html table
class Hash
  def to_html_table
    rows=self.collect do |k,v|
      "<tr><td>#{k}</td><td>#{v}</td></tr>"
    end
    "<table border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=3>#{rows}</table>"
  end
end

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# used for building filtering type links/UI
# extract parameters from url so you can preserve them in new link

# example.com/?val=2&cool=yes => val=2&cool=yes

params.keys.reject{|key|key=~/action|controller/i}.collect{ |key| "#{key}=#{params[key]}" }.join("&")

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# need to disable Rails.cache.fetch in test env
# and ActionController::Base.perform_caching doesnt do it
# from http://pivotallabs.com/users/spierson/blog/articles/818-standup-04-30-2009-perform-caching-and-rails-cache-w3c-dtds-and-ie-range-min-max

class BlackHoleStore
  def logger
    Rails.logger
  end
  
  def fetch( *args )

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namespace :bundler do
  task :install, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true }  do
    run("gem install bundler --source=http://gemcutter.org")
  end

  task :symlink_vendor, :roles => :app, :except => { :no_release => true } do
    shared_gems = File.join(shared_path, 'vendor/gems/ruby/1.8')
    release_gems = "#{release_path}/vendor/gems/ruby/1.8"
    # if you don't commit your cache, add cache to this list
    %w(gems specifications).each do |sub_dir|

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# you'd obviously have more settings somewhere
set :scm,        :git
set :repository, "git@github.com:defunkt/github.git"
set :branch,     "origin/master"
set :migrate_target, :current

set(:latest_release)  { fetch(:current_path) }
set(:release_path)    { fetch(:current_path) }
set(:current_release) { fetch(:current_path) }