| "Knock Knock!" | |
| Who's there? | |
| ... | |
| ... | |
| ... | |
| "Ruby." |
So, linode bailed (http://yfrog.com/kkrk4p) while I was in the middle of working on the band website (http://www.thebonscotts.com)
That annoyed me somewhat.
Here's what I did to move it off linode in under one hour (except for DNS TTLs, obvs):
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| CODES = { | |
| '400' => 'Bad Request', | |
| '401' => 'Unauthorized', | |
| '403' => 'Forbidden', | |
| '404' => 'Not Found', | |
| '405' => 'Method Not Allowed', | |
| '406' => 'Not Acceptable', | |
| '408' => 'Request Timeout', |
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| pwd = ARGV[0] || '.' | |
| debug = ARGV[1] == '-d' | |
| Dir[File.join(pwd, '**', '.git')].each do |repo| | |
| repo.gsub!(/\.git$/, '') | |
| $stderr.puts "in #{repo}" if debug | |
| if `cd #{repo}; git status`.include?("Your branch is ahead of") | |
| puts repo |
| #!/bin/bash | |
| set -e | |
| set -v | |
| wget http://rubyenterpriseedition.googlecode.com/files/ruby-enterprise_1.8.7-2011.03_amd64_ubuntu10.04.deb | |
| sudo dpkg -i ruby-enterprise_1.8.7-2011.03_amd64_ubuntu10.04.deb | |
| sudo gem install rubygems-update -v 1.3.7 | |
| sudo update_rubygems | |
| sudo apt-get install build-essential |
| ubuntu@localtest:~$ cat stat.rb | |
| require 'benchmark' | |
| puts Benchmark.measure { | |
| 1000000.times do | |
| File.exist?(ARGV[0]) | |
| end | |
| } | |
| ubuntu@localtest:~$ ls -l foo | |
| ls: cannot access foo: No such file or directory |
| # Oops! I committed this to the wrong branch. | |
| # Here's how to fix without needing to do a messy git revert. | |
| # Assumptions: | |
| # * you have no uncommitted changes | |
| # * you haven't pushed or pulled yet | |
| # * you haven't made any further commits | |
| DEST = bar # branch you intended to commit to | |
| SRC = foo # branch you actually committed to |
| #!/usr/bin/env ruby | |
| ROOT = '...' | |
| EXTENSIONS = %w{html rb erb js css} | |
| ignore = File.read(ROOT + '/.gitignore').split("\n").map {|a| "-not -path '#{a}'"}.join(' ') | |
| if ARGV[0] == 'config' | |
| puts "graph_title Code Metric - Line Count" |
| # A condensed example of using Debra (http://rcrowley.org/articles/packaging.html) | |
| # to build sphinx-2.0.1-beta1 | |
| # First, Install debra as at http://rcrowley.github.com/debra/ | |
| wget http://sphinxsearch.com/files/sphinx-2.0.1-beta.tar.gz | |
| debra sourceinstall sphinxsearch sphinx-2.0.1-beta.tar.gz -p /usr | |
| debra create sphinxsearch control | |
| vim sphinxsearch/DEBIAN/control # set package name, version, architecture | |
| debra build sphinxsearch sphinxsearch_2.0.1-beta1_x64_86.deb |
Hi,
I've been watching job boards for Ruby related contracts lately and have noticed some low rates being offered with high expectations. It's happening frequently enough that I wanted to post my understanding of how to calculate an hourly rate. Setting reasonable standards of pay for the appropriate level of expertise is vital. There's a lot to say on the matter, so I've tried to be brief.
For some reason it's very easy for software developers to match their experience and knowledge to a full-time rate, but for contracting there is less awareness.