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# Recursively add a .gitignore file to all directories 
# in the working directory which are empty and don't
# start with a dot.  Helpful for tracking empty dirs
# in a git repository.

for i in $(find . -type d -regex ``./[^.].*'' -empty); do touch $i"/.gitignore"; done;

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# I always forget how easy this is... assuming r202 was the bad commit
# I just merge the *reverse* difference between r202 and r201

svn merge -r 202:201 http://svn.example.com/acme/trunk
svn diff # check it's right
svn ci -m "reversed out r202"

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<% semantic_form_for @user do |form| %>
  <%= form.inputs :title, :body, :section_id, :created_at %>
  <%= form.buttons :commit %>
<% end %>

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speechless:~/dev $ rails formtastic_test
      create  
      create  app/controllers
      create  app/helpers
      ...  trimmed by JF
speechless:~/dev $ cd formtastic_test/
speechless:~/dev/formtastic_test $ ./script/plugin install git://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic.git
Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
warning: no common commits
remote: Counting objects: 26, done.

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# 1. add this to formtastic_spec.rb inside the ":as => :select" describe block

it 'should have one option with a "selected" attribute' do
  output_buffer.should have_tag('form li select option[@selected]', :count => 2) # the 2 is intentional
end

# 2. run the specs

expected
<form class="formtastic post" action="/posts" method="post" id="new_post"><li class="select optional" id="post_author_id_input"><label for="post_author_id">Author</label><select name="post[author_id]" id="post_author_id"><option value="37">Fred Smith</option>

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git tag -am "annotation goes here" tagname_goes_here # cut a tag
git tag -d tagname_goes_here                         # burn it
git tag -am "annotation goes here" tagname_goes_here # cut another tag
git push --tags                                      # push tags to remote
git push origin :refs/tags/tagname_goes_here         # delete tag from remote

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# http://rpheath.com/posts/409-rails-time-date-formatting-with-lambda

Time::DATE_FORMATS.merge!(
  :friendly => lambda { |time|
    if time.year == Time.now.year
      time.strftime "%b #{time.day.ordinalize}"
    else
      time.strftime "%b #{time.day.ordinalize}, %Y"
    end
  }

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Parameters: {
  "commit"=>"Create Post", 
  "post"=>{
    "thing_attributes"=>{
      "name"=>"sdfgsdf", 
      "about"=>"sdfg"
    }, 
    "body"=>"sdfgsdg", 
    "title"=>"sdfgsdg", 
    "published"=>"0"}, 

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# renders a post[author_attributes][login]
form_for(@new_post) do |post|
  post.fields_for(:author) do |author|
    concat(author.text_field(:login))
  end
end

# renders a post[author][login]
form_for(@new_post) do |post|
  post.fields_for(@new_post.author) do |author|

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Rails CMS alternatives
======================
  Note: project activity was checked on 11/26/09.
  
Active projects:
---------------
adva-cms
  repo: http://github.com/svenfuchs/adva_cms/
  site: http://adva-cms.org/
  Last update: 11/24/09