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• Authoring Ebooks: http://www.authoringebooks.com/
• Create Your Own Programming Language: http://createyourproglang.com/
• Exceptional Ruby: http://exceptionalruby.com/
• JavaScript Performance Rocks: http://javascriptrocks.com/performance/
• Redmine Tips: http://www.redminetips.com/
• The SPDY Book: http://spdybook.com/
• Rails 3 Upgrade Handbook: http://www.railsupgradehandbook.com/
• Refactoring Redmine: http://www.refactoringredmine.com/book/
• Bootstrapping Design: http://bootstrappingdesign.com/
• Recipes With Backbone:

ahoward

#! /usr/bin/env ruby

# you can timeout in ruby even when all signals are blocked by doing the work
# in a child process (relaying the value back up a pipe) and doing the
# timeout-ing in the parent.  of course this only works in POSIX systems
#
 
  require 'timeout'

  def timeoutx(seconds, &block)

ahoward

#! /usr/bin/env ruby


status = DATA.flock(File::LOCK_EX | File::LOCK_NB)

if status == 0
  puts "we have the lock..."
  sleep

else

igrigorik

require 'rubygems'
require 'rack'

class Object
  def webapp
    class << self
       define_method :call do |env|
         func, *attrs = env['PATH_INFO'].split('/').reject(&:empty?)
         [200, {}, send(func, *attrs)]
       end

tenderlove

class Metaclass
  include Enumerable

  def initialize obj
    @obj = obj
  end

  def each
    return enum_for(:each) unless block_given?
    x = meta_for @obj