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@madtrick
madtrick / remote_authenticatable.rb
Created October 19, 2012 08:43
Example module to perform remote authentication with Devise
module Devise
module Models
module RemoteAuthenticatable
extend ActiveSupport::Concern
#
# Here you do the request to the external webservice
#
# If the authentication is successful you should return
# a resource instance
@mrichie
mrichie / gist:4043266
Created November 9, 2012 02:05 — forked from jfirebaugh/gist:4007524
Installing Ruby 2.0.0-preview1 with RVM on OS X
# First, make sure that you have the most recent rvm. Several bugs with 2.0.0-preview1
# have recently been fixed.
#
# Second, the openssl that comes with MacOS is too old for Ruby 2.0. You need to install
# a newer one with homebrew or the rvm pkg command.
# Option 1, with homebrew openssl:
brew update
brew install openssl
# The BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder is a Bootstrap compatible breadcrumb builder.
# It provides basic functionalities to render a breadcrumb navigation according to Bootstrap's conventions.
#
# BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder accepts a limited set of options:
# * separator: what should be displayed as a separator between elements
#
# You can use it with the :builder option on render_breadcrumbs:
# <%= render_breadcrumbs :builder => ::BootstrapBreadcrumbsBuilder, :separator => "&raquo;" %>
#
# Note: You may need to adjust the autoload_paths in your config/application.rb file for rails to load this class:

Zero downtime deploys with unicorn + nginx + runit + rvm + chef

Below are the actual files we use in one of our latest production applications at Agora Games to achieve zero downtime deploys with unicorn. You've probably already read the GitHub blog post on Unicorn and would like to try zero downtime deploys for your application. I hope these files and notes help. I am happy to update these files or these notes if there are comments/questions. YMMV (of course).

Other application notes:

  • Our application uses MongoDB, so we don't have database migrations to worry about as with MySQL or postgresql. That does not mean that we won't have to worry about issues with the database with indexes being built in MongoDB or what have you.
  • We use capistrano for deployment.

Salient points for each file:

@nodesocket
nodesocket / bootstrap.flatten.css
Last active April 1, 2021 23:37
Below are simple styles to "flatten" bootstrap. I didn't go through every control and widget that bootstrap offers, only what was required for https://commando.io, so your milage may vary.
/* Flatten das boostrap */
.well, .navbar-inner, .popover, .btn, .tooltip, input, select, textarea, pre, .progress, .modal, .add-on, .alert, .table-bordered, .nav>.active>a, .dropdown-menu, .tooltip-inner, .badge, .label, .img-polaroid {
-moz-box-shadow: none !important;
-webkit-box-shadow: none !important;
box-shadow: none !important;
-webkit-border-radius: 0px !important;
-moz-border-radius: 0px !important;
border-radius: 0px !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
background-image: none !important;
@alanhamlett
alanhamlett / api.py
Last active October 21, 2024 14:30
Serialize SQLAlchemy Model to dictionary (for JSON output) and update Model from dictionary attributes.
import uuid
import wtforms_json
from sqlalchemy import not_
from sqlalchemy.dialects.postgresql import UUID
from wtforms import Form
from wtforms.fields import FormField, FieldList
from wtforms.validators import Length
from flask import current_app as app
from flask import request, json, jsonify, abort
@flomotlik
flomotlik / Gemfile
Last active April 6, 2021 13:17
Puma on Heroku
gem 'foreman'
gem 'puma'
@catsby
catsby / puma.rb
Created October 17, 2013 14:28
Example config/puma.rb file
preload_app!
min_threads = Integer(ENV['MIN_THREADS'] || 0)
max_threads = Integer(ENV['MAX_THREADS'] || 5)
threads min_threads, max_threads
workers Integer(ENV['WORKER_COUNT'] || 3 )
on_worker_boot do
ActiveSupport.on_load(:active_record) do
@pcreux
pcreux / Gemfile
Last active December 11, 2023 20:24
Fast Rails + Heroku Configuration
group :production do
gem 'unicorn'
# Enable gzip compression on heroku, but don't compress images.
gem 'heroku-deflater'
# Heroku injects it if it's not in there already
gem 'rails_12factor'
end
@jvns
jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active April 17, 2025 16:25
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".