Nestor G Pestelos Jr ngpestelos

Ruby Workflow System Benchmark

Why?

I've chatted with people that love working on their macbook airs, and honestly, they have a lot going for them. They're nice light machines with a surprising amount of performance for their form factor.

I always argue that they're way slower than much cheaper machines, like a good workstation. Ergonomics aside, I wanted to get some performance numbers.

I've attached a script to this gist that will grab Sinatra and time how long it takes to bundle it, run the full tests, and run a single test.

RedDotRubyConf 2012 links & resources

Web site: http://reddotrubyconf.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/reddotrubyconf

Ping me @cheeaun on Twitter if you found some awesome stuff for #reddot. This gist will be updated whenever there's new stuff.

Previously, on RedDotRubyConf 2011: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1aWZqJVeTk1T7Ll2SeHchKM8X8Dj7L3kXkWMXb4lBPys

philippine-defense-squad.txt v 0.1

This text file seeks to become a comprehensive listing of all instances of times when Filipinos overreact to criticism (both deserved and undeserved) by descending upon the subject like a swarm of angry bees and inflicting their wrath through letters, blogs, Photoshop contests, and other zany means of reaction. Anyone who figures out how to contact me is welcome to contribute.

the spoon incident in Canada, which really turned out to be the fault of the boy;
Art Bell's racist comments against Pinoys, actually a hoax
Filipinos getting angry over the Faye Nicole San Juan incident, which later turned out to be a hoax
Claire Danes goes to the Philippines; gets declared persona non grata after making a few remarks that some people didn't like hearing
Americans go to Jollibee and get flamed by a thousand angry Pinoys who can't bear the thought that other cultures might be weirded out by other cultures
Malu Fernandez receives flames and death threats after putting her

Development box installation guide

This guide will show how to setup a VirtualBox similiar to an Ubuntu 12.04.1 server for use with Amazon EC2.

Covered in this guide:

VeeWee: Tool for building base boxes which will be used by vagrant
Vagrant: Tool for managing virtual machines with an easy to use CLI
Librarian: Bundler for chef cookbooks
Chef-solo & Knife solo: Tool for automating installing and management of servers

Security is Hard

Massive Assignment

watch for ActiveRecord Relation, like has_many, has_many :through
watch for user_roles, `group_users
UPDATE action

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	# How Clearance / Hoptoad does it
	module Clearance
	class << self
	attr_accessor :configuration
	end

	def self.configure
	self.configuration \|\|= Configuration.new
	yield(configuration)
	end

	<This is a brain dump. Please forgive any typos>

	I'd like to share an idea for a RailsGirls followup activity.

	I noticed that having your stuff deployable and out on the net is a very powerful source of inspiration.
	For me it makes me keep on working on it, just knowing that other people can see it.

	One of the stumbling blocks in learning Rails is deployment. It's an advanced topic that is oddly too often taught in intro courses.
	Forget about teaching deployment. Let's just give the newbs a ready-to-use VPS.

	require "rspec/core/formatters/progress_formatter"

	class ApplauseFormatter < RSpec::Core::Formatters::ProgressFormatter
	def initialize(output)
	super(output)
	unless File.exists? "/tmp/applause.mp3"
	p "Downloading applause for awesomeness"
	system "wget http://www.soundjay.com/human/applause-1.mp3 -O /tmp/applause.mp3"
	end
	end

	VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

	Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do \|config\|
	config.vm.box = "precise64"

	config.vm.provision "docker" do \|d\|
	d.run "ubuntu",
	cmd: "bash -l",
	args: "-v '/vagrant:/var/www'"
	end