Ryan Rauh rauhryan

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

It's common in Ruby to see some code setup a Struct like this:

class Specialized < Struct.new(:whatever)
  # ... define custom methods here...
end

	require 'bundler/capistrano'

	set :application, "net"
	set :repository, "[email protected]:net.git"

	set :scm, :git

	set :default_environment, {
	'PATH' => "$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
	}

	$VERBOSE = nil
	require File.expand_path('../rooby', __FILE__)


	Person = Rooby::Class.new 'Person' do
	define :initialize do \|name\|
	@name = name
	end

	define :name do

	require 'dalli'
	require 'memcachier'

	module Sprockets
	module Cache
	# A simple Memcache cache store.
	#
	# environment.cache = Sprockets::Cache::MemcacheStore.new
	#
	class MemcacheStore

	(function (global) {
	"use strict";

	function empty(obj) {
	var key;
	for (key in obj) if (obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) return false;
	return true;
	}

	var Ember = global.Ember,

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script>
	<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/handlebars.js/1.0.0/handlebars.js"></script>
	<script src="http://builds.emberjs.com/ember-latest.js"></script>
	<meta charset=utf-8 />
	<title>JS Bin</title>
	</head>
	<body>

	# So, this is pretty horrible. If we just encode using btoa, any UTF-8 chars cause an error.
	# If we use either of the workarounds on MDN[1], the £ sign is encoded wrong. I suspect
	# Excel totally sucking at encodings is the reason why. So, the workaround is, to use
	# the MDN workaround on chars with values > 255, and allow chars 0-255 to be encoded
	# as is with btoa. Note that if you use either of the workarounds on MDN, chars
	# 128-255 will be encoded as UTF-8, which includeds the £ sign. This will cause excel
	# to choke on these chars. Excel will still choke on chars > 255, but at least the £
	# sign works now...

	# [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Base64_encoding_and_decoding

	define(function (require) {

	var module;

	// Setup temporary Google Analytics objects.
	window.GoogleAnalyticsObject = "ga";
	window.ga = function () { (window.ga.q = window.ga.q \|\| []).push(arguments); };
	window.ga.l = 1 * new Date();

	// Immediately add a pageview event to the queue.