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source "http://rubygems.org"

gem "sinatra"

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<h1>{{ site.title }}</h1>

<nav>
  <ul>
    {% for link  in site.menu %}
      <li>{{ link }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
  </ul>
</nav>

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/ Template markup:
/ Points to the "application.js.coffee" Sprockets manifest.
= javascript_include_tag "application"

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PCRE (required by Nginx) not installed, downloading it...
# wget -O /tmp/ubuntu-passenger-7717/pcre.tar.gz ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.gz
--2011-12-15 18:38:20--  ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.12.tar.gz
           => `/tmp/ubuntu-passenger-7717/pcre.tar.gz'
Resolving ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk... 131.111.8.80
Connecting to ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk|131.111.8.80|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /pub/software/programming/pcre ... done.
==> SIZE pcre-8.12.tar.gz ... done.

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require 'dalli'

module Carbonmade
  module Cache
    class MembaseBackend
      
      DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
        :host => '127.0.0.1:11211',
        :expires_in => (60 * 60 * 2) # 2 hours
      }

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# Things work great at this point.
cache = Dalli::Client.new('127.0.0.1:11211')
cache.get('test') # => nil (it's working!)

# Now shutdown membase completely...

cache.get('test') # => Dalli::RingError

# Now what? Ideally `cache.get` (and other cache functions) would
# fail silently until a connection can be re-established.

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    def user_status(self, user):
        # If the user has no blog (for some reason) they are inactive.
        if user.owned_blogs.count() == 0:
            return 'Inactive'
        
        # If they only have one blog, their status is that blog's status.
        if user.owned_blogs.count() == 1:
            blog = user.owned_blogs.all()[1]
            status = blog.status
            if status == Blog.UNCONFIRMED:

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# Python is too stupid to know that you want list items coerced to strings when joining them.
# Instead you must manually cast items to strings -- in this case, integers.

# Strings join fine!
>>> ",".join(['a','b'])
'a,b'

# But not integers!
>>> ",".join([1,2])
Traceback (most recent call last):

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# Install the pre-release of Bundler:
gem install bundler --pre

# Run from within your project directory
bundle outdated

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class SpecialThing(Thing):

  def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
      # If only I could `my_kwarg = kwargs.delete('my_kwarg')
      my_kwarg = 'my_kwarg' in kwargs
      if my_kwarg:
          kwargs.pop('my_kwarg')
      result = super(SpecialThing, self).save(*args, **kwargs)
      if my_kwarg:
          self.do_more_stuff()