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960 Grid System - An effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem.
Compass - Open source CSS Authoring Framework.
Bootstrap - Sleek, intuitive, and powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
Font Awesome - The iconic font designed for Bootstrap.
Zurb Foundation - Framework for writing responsive web sites.
SASS - CSS extension language which allows variables, mixins and rules nesting.
Skeleton - Boilerplate for responsive, mobile-friendly development.

jQuery - The de-facto library for the modern age. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.
Backbone - Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.
AngularJS - Conventions based MVC framework for HTML5 apps.
Underscore - Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects.
lawnchair - Key/value store adapter for indexdb, localStorage

Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generate, and specs/tests take less than one second.
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	To install Postgres (linux):
	1. Open your terminal and type sudo apt-get install postgresql

	2. After installing postgres, you might like to install pgAdmin III. It is a nice GUI to have, especially for beginners. To do this, in terminal type ```sudo apt-get install pgadmin3

	3. To start off, we need to change the PostgreSQL postgres user password; we will not be able to access the server otherwise. As the “postgres” Linux user, we will execute the psql command. In terminal, type sudo -u postgres psql postgres

	4. Set a password for the "postgres" database role using the command: \password postgres
	and give your password when prompted. The password text will be hidden from the console for security purposes.
	Type Control+D to exit the posgreSQL prompt.

	=Navigating=
	visit('/projects')
	visit(post_comments_path(post))

	=Clicking links and buttons=
	click_link('id-of-link')
	click_link('Link Text')
	click_button('Save')
	click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
	click('Button Value')

	namespace :figaro do
	desc "SCP transfer figaro configuration to the shared folder"
	task :setup do
	on roles(:app) do
	upload! "config/application.yml", "#{shared_path}/application.yml", via: :scp
	end
	end

	desc "Symlink application.yml to the release path"
	task :symlink do

	class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

	# stuff

	private

	# These groups are equivalent:
	#
	# render action: :new, locals: { item: x }
	# render :new, locals: { item: x }

	#Model

	@user.should have(1).error_on(:username) # Checks whether there is an error in username
	@user.errors[:username].should include("can't be blank") # check for the error message

	#Rendering
	response.should render_template(:index)

	#Redirecting
	response.should redirect_to(movies_path)

	// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
	console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console