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@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@josegonzalez
josegonzalez / category.rb
Created August 14, 2010 21:41
Category plugin for Jekyll
module Jekyll
class CategoryIndex < Page
def initialize(site, base, dir, category)
@site = site
@base = base
@dir = dir
@name = 'index.html'
self.process(@name)
self.read_yaml(File.join(base, '_layouts'), 'category_index.html')
@stream7
stream7 / migration_integer_limit_option
Created July 7, 2011 14:09
Rails migrations integer :limit option
literally always have to look up the meaning of :limit in migrations when it comes to integer values. Here's an overview. Now let's memorise it (oh, this works for MySQL, other databases may work differently):
:limit Numeric Type Column Size Max value
1 tinyint 1 byte 127
2 smallint 2 bytes 32767
3 mediumint 3 byte 8388607
nil, 4, 11 int(11) 4 byte 2147483647
5..8 bigint 8 byte 9223372036854775807
Note: by default MySQL uses signed integers and Rails has no way (that I know of) to change this behaviour. Subsequently, the max. values noted are for signed integers.
@kfox
kfox / sysctl.conf
Created February 29, 2012 17:32
Linux kernel tuning settings for large number of concurrent clients
# Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux
#
# For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and
# sysctl.conf(5) for more details.
# Controls source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
# Do not accept source routing
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
@jrochkind
jrochkind / gist:2161449
Created March 22, 2012 18:40
A Capistrano Rails Guide

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

@mdigital
mdigital / tarsnap-install.sh
Created April 18, 2012 02:40
Debian / Ubuntu Tarsnap installation
#!/bin/sh
# Installs tarsnap client on Debian and Ubuntu
#
# You'll need to setup an account at
# http://www.tarsnap.com
# and load it with some funds
#
# Make sure you run this as root
#
@ndarville
ndarville / secret-key-gen.py
Created August 24, 2012 17:01
Generating a properly secure SECRET_KEY in Django
"""
Two things are wrong with Django's default `SECRET_KEY` system:
1. It is not random but pseudo-random
2. It saves and displays the SECRET_KEY in `settings.py`
This snippet
1. uses `SystemRandom()` instead to generate a random key
2. saves a local `secret.txt`
@dergachev
dergachev / README.md
Created October 10, 2012 16:49
Vagrant tutorial

Vagrant Setup

This tutorial guides you through creating your first Vagrant project.

We start with a generic Ubuntu VM, and use the Chef provisioning tool to:

  • install packages for vim, git
  • create user accounts, as specified in included JSON config files
  • install specified user dotfiles (.bashrc, .vimrc, etc) from a git repository

Afterwards, we'll see how easy it is to package our newly provisioned VM

@jasonroelofs
jasonroelofs / Timings.txt
Created November 29, 2012 18:23
Using Go for embarrassingly parallel scripts
] wc -l domains.txt
783 domains.txt
] time go run domain_lookup_parallel.go
real 0m5.743s
user 0m0.359s
sys 0m0.355s
] time go run domain_lookup_sequential.go