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Things to Look for When Evaluating Encoders

"Our encoder mixes DCT synergies and gamma radiation to provide excellent quality that abides by industry standard salsa dancing techniques, using adaptive streaming techniques." — Beamr, probably.

First Steps

1. First, verify they actually have a product to sell that actually exists and can be tested in-house.

   Warning signs: incredibly vague descriptions of the product, lots of "patent pending" claims with no real patents to be found, and insistence that they can do the testing for you and provide metrics instead of letting you test it yourself.

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Things to Look for When Evaluating Encoders

"Our encoder mixes DCT synergies and gamma radiation to provide excellent quality that abides by industry standard salsa dancing techniques, using adaptive streaming techniques." — Beamr, probably.

First Steps

1. First, verify they actually have a product to sell that actually exists and can be tested in-house.

   Warning signs: incredibly vague descriptions of the product, lots of "patent pending" claims with no real patents to be found, and insistence that they can do the testing for you and provide metrics instead of letting you test it yourself.

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In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

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.ui
{
  background-image: url(sprite.png);
}
@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
  .ui
  {
    background-image: url(sprite2x.png);
    background-size: 400px 200px;
  }

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# Run this file with `RAILS_ENV=production rackup -p 3000 -s thin`
# Be sure to have rails and thin installed.
require "rubygems"
require "rails"

# Let's load only action controller. If you want
# to use active record, just require it as well.
require "action_controller/railtie"

class MyApp < Rails::Application

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require "net/http"

# Veeery simple recaptcha client.
# In your controller or filter
#    @recaptcha = Recaptcha.new(:pubkey => your_public_key, :privkey => your_private_key)
# In the view
#    <%= @recaptcha.form %>
# In the accepting action, rescue from Recaptcha::Failed
#     begin
#       @recaptcha.verify!(:env => env, :params => params)

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namespace :deploy do
  desc 'Bundle and minify the JS and CSS files'
  task :precache_assets, :roles => :app do
    root_path    = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/..')
    jammit_path  = Dir["#{root_path}/vendor/gems/jammit-*/bin/jammit"].first
    yui_lib_path = Dir["#{root_path}/vendor/gems/yui-compressor-*/lib"].first
    assets_path  = "#{root_path}/public/assets"

    # Precaching assets
    run_locally "ruby -I#{yui_lib_path} #{jammit_path}"

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# Author: Cyril Rohr
require 'rubygems'
require 'rest_client' # sudo gem install rest-client
require 'rack/cache'  # sudo gem install rack-cache

module RestClient
  # this is a quick hack to show how you can use rack-cache as a powerful client cache.
  class CacheableResource < Resource
    attr_reader :cache
    CACHE_DEFAULT_OPTIONS = {}.freeze

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Symptoms may include:

1. Knowing that you will have to write a router for the 10th time just because someone said YAGNI
   (and knowing that having said "router" you would likely want it _both_ ways, yes I mean it thank you)
2. When talking about yourself as a developer you say 
   things like "I escape my URLs and preferably auto, and yes this includes the router"
3. You know you just don't need to rememder to have a form tag without do..end. because you use markaby anyway.
   And you want your URL escaped
4. It doesn't feel right unless you have snatched escape_and_sanitize_ugly_html_gunk from bigframework and
   of course you find out that it requires bigframework-*.gem, and the backing class for escape_and_sanitize