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markburns / lsm.rb

Created March 23, 2010 20:16

#A very simple script to display rails migrations in alphabetic order

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	#Util to show migrations in a nice to read format
	#Highlights current version of db in red
	#requires term-ansicolor gem
	#usage - copy to your rails root, chmod +x lsm.rb , then ./lsm or ./lsm s to sort alphabetically

	require 'date'
	require 'rubygems'
	require 'term/ansicolor'
	include Term::ANSIColor

markburns / markdown

Created March 23, 2010 21:40

Adapted script to preview markdown in a browser

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	#Adapted from http://pragmatig.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/quick-markdown-preview-for-github-readme/
	#Added --firefox or -f parameter so that it won't open firefox each time, and you can just hit refresh instead.

	raise "Usage:\nmarkdown <filename> [-f\|--firefox]" unless ARGV[0]

	require 'rubygems'
	#e.g. rdiscount, gem install rdiscount (or any other bluecloth flavour...)
	require 'markdown'

markburns / gist:358976

Created April 7, 2010 14:59

	Building native extensions. This could take a while...
	ERROR: Error installing bloopsaphone:
	ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

	/home/mark/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p249/bin/ruby extconf.rb
	checking for main() in -lportaudio... yes
	creating Makefile

	make
	gcc -I. -I. -I/home/mark/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p249/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux -I. -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -fPIC -g -O2 -I../../c -c bloopsaphone.c

markburns / post-commit

Created November 17, 2010 17:56

Checks the spec and features directory for any "I debug", "show me the page" or "show_me_the_page" and prevents a commit if so

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	require 'rubygems'
	begin
	require 'term/ansicolor'
	include Term::ANSIColor
	rescue LoadError
	puts "To get color from this post-commit hook install term/ansicolor"

	%w[red blue green].each { \|color\| eval "def #{color} &blk; blk.call; end" }
	end

markburns / ignore_this.rb

Created November 24, 2010 15:49

	After do \|scenario\|
	save_and_open_page if scenario.status == :failed
	end

markburns / conundrum

Created December 22, 2010 08:01

Koch Snowflake area calculator

	ruby-1.9.2-p0 > require './koch_snowflake'
	=> true
	ruby-1.9.2-p0 > k=KochSnowflake.new 5,514
	=> #<KochSnowflake:0x97222e4 @iteration=514, @size=5>
	ruby-1.9.2-p0 > k.area
	=> NaN
	ruby-1.9.2-p0 > k=KochSnowflake.new 5,513
	=> #<KochSnowflake:0x977cc80 @iteration=513, @size=5>
	ruby-1.9.2-p0 > k.area
	=> 16.168975852600433

markburns / .bashrc

Created June 13, 2011 09:53

.bashrc aliases

	#git aliases
	alias gs='git status'
	alias gl='git log '
	alias ga='git add '
	alias gd='git diff --ignore-space-change '
	alias gpl='git pull --rebase'
	alias grc='git rebase --continue'
	alias gpo='git push origin '
	alias gb='git branch '
	alias gf='git fetch '

markburns / gist:1040856

Created June 22, 2011 19:09

trac import

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'ticketmaster'
	require 'ticketmaster-pivotal'
	require 'ticketmaster-trac'
	require 'ruby-debug/debugger'

	pivotal = TicketMaster.new(:pivotal, :username => '[email protected]',:password => 'password' )
	pivotal_project = pivotal.project(some_integer)

	trac = TicketMaster.new(:trac, {:username=> 'username', :password => "password", :url => "http://example.com"})

markburns / show_line.sh

Created June 29, 2011 12:40

	show_line() {

	default_context_lines=10

	usage() {
	echo "show_line <file> <line number> [number of context lines]"
	echo "OR:"
	echo "show_line <file>:<line number>[:<number of context lines>]"
	echo
	echo "Usage Examples:"

markburns / Peering into Japanese and Korean strings

Created September 16, 2011 06:49

Method to help understand encoding issues in ruby 1.9

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