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natritmeyer / trex.rb

Last active December 19, 2015 21:28

Why dynamic languages are awesome

	class Thing
	def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
	puts method.to_s.gsub /_/, " "
	end
	end

	Thing.new.send <<-T_REX
	_____________.-=-==--==--.
	_______..-=="__,'o`)______`.
	_____,'_________`"'_________\\

natritmeyer / vagrant_ssh_run_forked_process.sh

Created July 10, 2013 16:19

Run a process you want to fork in vagrant over ssh

vagrant ssh -c "nohup java -jar /vagrant/my_app.jar >> my_app.out 2>&1 &"

natritmeyer / get_messages_off_rabbitmq.rb

Last active February 16, 2024 13:52

Get messages off a RabbitMQ... Queue!

	require 'httparty'
	require 'json'

	class QueueInspector
	include HTTParty
	basic_auth "guest", "guest"
	base_uri "http://192.168.0.1:55672"

	def messages
	body = {'count' => 5,'requeue' => true, 'encoding' => 'auto', 'truncate' => 50000}.to_json

natritmeyer / ruby_ssl_error_solution.rb

Last active December 19, 2015 04:48

Failure/Error: response = http.request(request) OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A: (null)

	#Getting this?

	<<-ANNOYING_ERROR

	Failure/Error: response = http.request(request)
	OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError:
	SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv2/v3 read server hello A: (null)

	ANNOYING_ERROR

natritmeyer / ruby_time_duration_hack.rb

Created June 18, 2013 13:03

Converts a float/active_support-time to print a duration (ie: a date time that starts from 0000 instead of the epoch, ie: 1/1/1970)

	require 'active_support/time'

	def duration_of(input)
	Time.at(input).gmtime.strftime "0000-00-00T%H:%M:%S"
	end

	duration_of 6.seconds #=> "0000-00-00T00:00:06"
	duration_of 70.seconds #=> "0000-00-00T00:01:10"
	duration_of 5.minutes #=> "0000-00-00T00:05:00"

natritmeyer / Rakefile

Created June 10, 2013 13:49

How to add task dependencies to custom rake tasks that don't allow for the normal rake task behaviour around setting task dependencies.

	# Example Rakefile that demonstrates how to add task dependencies
	# to custom rake tasks that don't allow for the normal rake task
	# behaviour around setting task dependencies.

	require 'cucumber/rake/task'

	# here's the task that I want to run before any of my cucumber tasks (see below)
	namespace :stub do
	desc "Start stub required by features"
	task :start do

natritmeyer / specific_version_of_library_in_homebrew.sh

Last active December 10, 2015 22:18

Install specific versions of a library from Homebrew

	#substitute LIBNAME for the library you want. Eg: grails

	brew tap homebrew/versions
	brew versions LIBNAME
	#2.1.2 git checkout 5c5b964 /usr/local/Library/Formula/grails.rb # <== we want this version
	#2.1.3 git checkout d08ef78 /usr/local/Library/Formula/grails.rb
	#2.1.1 git checkout 1bcf5af /usr/local/Library/Formula/grails.rb
	#...
	cd /usr/local
	git checkout 5c5b964 Library/Formula/LIBNAME.rb # <== notice the hash, it's a reference to the version we want

natritmeyer / Rakefile

Last active December 10, 2015 18:19

Rake task for Reek

	require 'reek/rake/task'

	Reek::Rake::Task.new do \|t\|
	t.config_files = "config.reek"
	t.source_files = "*/.rb"
	t.fail_on_error = false
	t.reek_opts = "-q" #only list smelly files
	end

natritmeyer / Rakefile

Created December 6, 2012 10:04

Sinatra Stubs and Rake Tasks

	require 'rspec/core/rake_task'

	namespace :stubs do
	namespace :schedule do
	pid_file_path = "lib/stubs/schedule.pid"

	desc "Start the schedule stub"
	task :start do
	`rackup -D lib/stubs/schedule.ru -P #{pid_file_path} -p 2000`
	end

natritmeyer / time_zome_management.rb

Created August 29, 2012 21:18

Make your tests run in any timezone...

	#in env.rb:
	require 'active_support/time'
	Time.zone = 'Europe/London'

	#use in tests instead of `Time.now`:
	Time.current #=> will output the time in London, regardless of the localhost's timezone

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