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@irazasyed
irazasyed / homebrew-permissions-issue.md
Last active July 8, 2026 13:32
Homebrew: Permissions Denied Issue Fix (OS X / macOS)

Homebrew Permissions Denied Issues Solution

sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*

@maxim
maxim / rails_load_path_tips.md
Last active January 9, 2025 00:59
How to use rails load paths, app, and lib directories.

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

@stuartsierra
stuartsierra / fresh-chrome.sh
Last active April 30, 2026 08:09
Launch new instances of Google Chrome on OS X with isolated cache, cookies, and user config
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# fresh-chrome
#
# Use this script on OS X to launch a new instance of Google Chrome
# with its own empty cache, cookies, and user configuration.
#
# The first time you run this script, it will launch a new Google
# Chrome instance with a permanent user-data directory, which you can
# customize below. Perform any initial setup you want to keep on every
@jonschlinkert
jonschlinkert / markdown-cheatsheet.md
Last active July 30, 2026 05:51
A better markdown cheatsheet.
@mislav
mislav / OpenSSL fix.md
Last active June 8, 2023 07:48
Fix OpenSSL certificate errors on Ruby 2.0

The reason why you might get certificate errors in Ruby 2.0 when talking HTTPS is because there isn't a default certificate bundle that OpenSSL (which was used when building Ruby) trusts.

Update: this problem is solved in edge versions of rbenv and RVM.

$ ruby -rnet/https -e "Net::HTTP.get URI('https://github.com')"
net/http.rb:917:in `connect': SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3
  read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

You can work around the issue by installing a certificate bundle that you trust. I trust Mozilla and curl.

@kevit
kevit / gist:4986610
Created February 19, 2013 14:58
Safari Reading list to Pocket import script
#!/bin/sh
#http://getpocket.com/import/instapaper
set -x
cat >> /tmp/import.html << "EOF"
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Instapaper: Export</title>
</head>
@redoPop
redoPop / tzAbbr.js
Last active May 17, 2024 04:05
JavaScript: friendly timezone abbreviations in the client ("EDT", "CST", "GMT", etc.)
/*
Given a date, tzAbbr returns a short, friendly name for the
user's time zone on that date, or an empty string if their
client's Intl support is missing or incomplete.
For example, a user in New York might see:
tzAbbr(new Date()) // => "EST"
Time zones are locale-dependent. Users traveling outside of
@eric2323223
eric2323223 / applicationContext.xml
Created September 4, 2012 02:11
Sample spring embedded database configuration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:jdbc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc"
xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc http://www.springframework.org/schema/jdbc/spring-jdbc-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
">
@andphe
andphe / gist:3232343
Created August 2, 2012 01:41
Export your links from Safari reading list
/usr/bin/plutil -convert xml1 -o - ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist | grep -E -o '<string>http[s]{0,1}://.*</string>' | grep -v icloud | sed -E 's/<\/{0,1}string>//g'
@tonyoconnell
tonyoconnell / gist:2351492
Last active August 21, 2023 17:35
Install Magento 1.8 With Sample Data By SSH
mkdir demo
cd demo
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.8.1.0/magento-1.8.1.0.tar.gz
wget http://www.magentocommerce.com/downloads/assets/1.6.1.0/magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-1.8.1.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0.tar.gz
mv magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/media/* magento/media/
mv magento-sample-data-1.6.1.0/magento_sample_data_for_1.6.1.0.sql magento/data.sql
mv magento/* magento/.htaccess .
chmod o+w var var/.htaccess app/etc