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newtonapple / rspec_rails_have_tag_example.rb

Created November 11, 2009 22:26

RSpec Rails have_tag() example

	response.should have_tag("form#my_form") do
	have_tag('input#hidden_input_id[type=hidden][value=?]', 'secret')
	end

	# matches the following HTML:
	# <form id="my_form" method="POST" action="create">
	# <input id="hidden_input_id" value="secret" type="hidden" />
	# </form>

newtonapple / json_vs_eval.rb

Created November 3, 2009 09:09

newtonapple / URL String to Params

Created November 2, 2009 20:14

Rails like params hash from URL encoded strings.

	ActionController::AbstractRequest.parse_query_parameters('foo[foo][0]=99') # => {"foo"=>{"foo"=>{"0"=>"99"}}}
	ActionController::AbstractRequest.parse_query_parameters('foo[foo][]=99') # => {"foo"=>{"foo"=>["99"]}}

newtonapple / rturk_regsiter_hit_type.rb

Created October 31, 2009 01:10

An example of RegisterHITType

	# Initial implementation can be found here: http://github.com/newtonapple/rturk
	# API Doc: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMechanicalTurkRequester/

	RTurk.setup(AWSAccessKeyId, AWSAccessKey, :sandbox => true)

	hit_type = RTurk.RegisterHITType(:title => "Python") do \|hit_type\|
	hit_type.assignments = 500
	hit_type.description = "Python Programming!"
	hit_type.question("http://localhost:3000/mturk")
	hit_type.keywords = 'python, programming'

newtonapple / rturk.rb

Created October 30, 2009 23:21

RTurk Example

	RTurk.setup(AWSAccessKeyId, AWSAccessKey, :sandbox => true)

	hit = RTurk::Hit.create(:title => "New Upload 3 Documents") do \|hit\|
	hit.assignments = 500
	hit.description = "no copytrighted materials!"
	hit.question("http://localhost:3000/mturk")
	hit.reward = 0.10
	hit.qualifications.add :approval_rate, { :gt => 85 }
	end

newtonapple / bare_bone_mysql_test.rake

Created October 28, 2009 21:21

Rakefile: The bare minimal you'll need to clone a test db from your env.

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'rake'
	require 'activerecord'

	CURRENT_ENV = ENV['RAILS_ENV'] \|\| 'development'
	ROOT_PATH = File.dirname(__FILE__)
	DB_CONFIG = YAML.load_file(File.join(ROOT_PATH, 'config', 'database.yml'))

	namespace :db do
	namespace :structure do

newtonapple / sha1_vs_md5.rb

Created October 25, 2009 10:07

Benchmark: SHA1 vs MD5: SHA1 is about 1.4 x slower

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'rbench'
	require 'digest/md5'
	require 'digest/sha1'

	MD5 = Digest::MD5
	SHA1 = Digest::SHA1
	TIMES = 100

	short_string = 'this is a short string'

newtonapple / loggers_bench.rb

Created September 9, 2009 19:34

Benchmark: Syslog VS Logger VS BufferedLogger

	require 'rbench'
	require 'activesupport'
	require 'syslog'
	require 'logger'

	buffered = ActiveSupport::BufferedLogger.new('buffered.log')
	logger = Logger.new('logger.log')
	syslog = Syslog.open('rb_syslog')

	TIMES = 5

newtonapple / Snow Leopard for Ruby Developers

Created September 4, 2009 22:07

Snow Leopard Upgrade Guide for Rails Developers

	Snow Leopard for Ruby Developers

	## Official Rails Guide to upgrading Snow Leopard
	http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2009/8/30/upgrading-to-snow-leopard

	## MacPorts:
	reference page: http://www.macports.org/install.php
	download macports: http://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-1.8.0-10.6-SnowLeopard.dmg

	## Afte installing macports do this:

newtonapple / rails_template.rb

Created August 27, 2009 22:50

A Rails Template: JQuery, Rspec, WillPaginate, BoilerPlate CSS, SQL Schema, NO Time Stamped Migration

	## ENV
	environment do
	<<-ENV_CODE

	config.active_record.timestamped_migrations = false
	config.active_record.schema_format = :sql
	# ENV['RAILS_ASSET_ID'] = '' # turn off assets timestamp
	ENV_CODE
	end

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