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watson / ability.rb
Created October 5, 2011 09:50
Active Admin CanCan integration with shared front/backend User model and multi-level autherization
# app/models/ability.rb
# All front end users are authorized using this class
class Ability
include CanCan::Ability
def initialize(user)
user ||= User.new
can :read, :all
@markoa
markoa / deploy.rb
Created October 10, 2011 13:31
Ingredients to monitor Resque with God automatically via Capistrano (on Ubuntu)
namespace :deploy do
desc "Hot-reload God configuration for the Resque worker"
task :reload_god_config do
sudo "god stop resque"
sudo "god load #{File.join(deploy_to, 'current', 'config', 'resque-' + rails_env + '.god')}"
sudo "god start resque"
end
end
# append to the bottom:
@bsodmike
bsodmike / gist:1369419
Created November 16, 2011 06:25
Subdomain Routing with Rails 3.1

Implement Routing for Subdomains

Rails 3.0 introduced support for routing constrained by subdomains.

A subdomain can be specified explicitly, like this:

match '/' => 'home#index', :constraints => { :subdomain => 'www' } 
@azinazadi
azinazadi / formtastic.rb
Created November 17, 2011 11:19
formtastic cheatsheet
more: https://github.com/justinfrench/formtastic
-> make form for all db columns
<%= semantic_form_for @user do |f| %>
<%= f.inputs %>
<%= f.buttons %>
<% end %>
-> select cols
<%= semantic_form_for @user do |f| %>
@samqiu
samqiu / railscasts.rb
Last active October 18, 2025 19:39
Download free Railscast video
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rss'
# Usage
# $ ./railscasts.rb http://railscasts.com/subscriptions/YOURRAILSCASTRSS/\/
# episodes.rss
# OR
# $ ./railscasts.rb
p 'Downloading rss index'
@keikubo
keikubo / README.md
Created March 20, 2012 01:38
Nginx + Unicorn for Rails on Rackhub

Nginx + Unicorn for Rails on Rackhub

Description:

This script enables you to launch your Rails application in production environment (port:80) with Nginx and Unicorn.

Installation:

Please make sure that your Gemfile in your rails application includes unicorn.

@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active April 2, 2026 00:17
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@mckeed
mckeed / strong_parameters.rb
Created June 5, 2012 22:24
Before filters to make rails/strong_parameters work with CanCan's load_resource or load_and_authorize_resource.
require 'strong_parameters'
class ActiveRecord::Base
include ActiveModel::ForbiddenAttributesProtection
end
class ActionController::Base
# Use this with CanCan's load_resource to permit a set of params before
# it tries to build or update a resource with them.
@rgreenjr
rgreenjr / postgres_queries_and_commands.sql
Last active March 30, 2026 20:20
Useful PostgreSQL Queries and Commands
-- show running queries (pre 9.2)
SELECT procpid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, current_query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE current_query != '<IDLE>' AND current_query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
ORDER BY query_start desc;
-- show running queries (9.2)
SELECT pid, age(clock_timestamp(), query_start), usename, query
FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE query != '<IDLE>' AND query NOT ILIKE '%pg_stat_activity%'
@mt3
mt3 / git-branches-by-commit-date.sh
Created September 24, 2012 18:38 — forked from jasonrudolph/git-branches-by-commit-date.sh
List remote Git branches and the last commit date for each branch. Sort by most recent commit date.
# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
for branch in `git branch -r | grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch | head -n 1` \\t$branch; done | sort -r