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# All code in this gist is public domain and freely available for use and alteration without attribution

require 'rubygems'
require 'simple-rss'
require 'rss'
require 'open-uri'

feed = 'http://www.tweetlinkmonster.com/feed/jraines.atom'

rss = SimpleRSS.parse(open(feed))

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require 'rubygems'
require 'ferret'

# Create the full-text search index

jobs = Job.find(:all, :conditions => ["displayed = 'yes'"])
index = Index::Index.new(:path => 'search_index', :create => true)

jobs.each do |job|
  index << {:id => job.id, :description => job.description}

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:javascript
  // wait for the DOM to be loaded 
  $(document).ready(function() { 
    var options = {
      target: '#output'
    };
    // bind 'myForm' and provide a simple callback function 
    $('#myForm').ajaxForm(options); 
  }); 

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//embed code for a YouTube JSAPI player

swfobject.embedSWF("#{@videos.first.url}&enablejsapi=1&playerapiid=ytplayer", "ytapiplayer", "320", "265", "8", null, null, params, atts);

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## Explanatory screencast:  http://www.youtube.com/jraines002#p/u/0/Vj5LjE4kuLM

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<Module>   
<ModulePrefs title="My Gadget" height="30">
 <Require feature="wave" />
 <Require feature="locked-domain" />	   
 <Require feature="dynamic-height" />
</ModulePrefs>
  <Content type="html">

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#class User
has_many :workouts, :through => :checkins
has_many :coached_workouts, :class_name = "Workout", :foreign_key => "coach_id"

#class Workout
belongs_to :coach, class_name = "User"

#add coach_id column to workout table

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-unless current_user.workouts.member?(workout)
   =link_to image_tag('checkin.png'), checkin_url(:workout_id => workout.id, :user_id => current_user.id)
 -else
   =image_tag('done.png')

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#testing the speed of creating a new object via the association with mongoid

c = Club.first

#######  43 seconds #######
begin
  500.times do |i|
    c.people.create(:name => 'Jim')
  end
end

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#two questions -- why does .count not return the narrowed down result set size, and why does .where seem to alter variable a?

a = Star.where(:brightness => 0)
=> #<Mongoid::Criteria:0xb6af2948 @documents=[], @options={}, @selector={:brightness=>0}, @klass=Star>

a.size
=> 1430

a.count
=> 1430

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Before starting work on a feature, check out a topic branch

git checkout -b topic

If the branch is already in progress and already exists on the remote repo, check it out as a tracking branch

git checkout --track -b topic origin/topic

Push the branch to your remote repo so others can work on it