shock

Surround a heredoc with quotes and you can continue the code on the same line:

    render :status => 404, :text => <<-'EOH' and return unless setup
        article not found<br/>
        I, as a server, have failed<br/>
        https?
        EOH

Quotes also give you more freedom/creativity with the terminal ID:

shock

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Find bloating passengers and kill them gracefully. Run from cron every minute.
#

# required for passenger since cron has no environment
ENV['HTTPD'] = 'httpd'

MEM_LIMIT = ARGV[0] || 500

shock

  class Spinner
    private

      @work
      @job

      def spinner
        return(['\\','|','/','-'][@i%4])
      end