Sean Ephraim sephraim

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

	#!/usr/bin/ruby
	# Create display override file to force Mac OS X to use RGB mode for Display
	# see http://embdev.net/topic/284710

	require 'base64'

	data=`ioreg -l -d0 -w 0 -r -c AppleDisplay`

	edids=data.scan(/IODisplayEDID.*?<([a-z0-9]+)>/i).flatten
	vendorids=data.scan(/DisplayVendorID.*?([0-9]+)/i).flatten

	#Mounting the share is a 2 stage process:
	# 1. Create a directory that will be the mount point
	# 2. Mount the share to that directory

	#Create the mount point:
	mkdir share_name

	#Mount the share:
	mount_smbfs //username:[email protected]/share_name share_name/

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'yaml'

	# A demonstration of YAML anchors, references and handling of nested values
	# For more info, see:
	# http://atechie.net/2009/07/merging-hashes-in-yaml-conf-files/

	stooges = YAML::load( File.read('stooges.yml') )
	# => {
	# "default" => {