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@steveclarke
steveclarke / capybara.md
Created April 10, 2012 17:32
RSpec Matchers

Capybara

save_and_open_page

Matchers

have_button(locator)
@michael
michael / yaml.js
Created March 9, 2012 20:25
toYAML
function toYAML(data) {
function serializeValue(val) {
function serializeArray(a) {
return a.map(function(e) { return "- "+ e}).join("\n");
}
if (_.isArray(val)) return "\n"+serializeArray(val);
return _.isNumber(val) ? val : "\""+val+"\"";
}
return Object.keys(data).map(function(key) {
return key +": "+ serializeValue(data[key]);
@alotaiba
alotaiba / google_speech2text.md
Created February 3, 2012 13:20
Google Speech To Text API

Google Speech To Text API

Base URL: https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize
It accepts POST requests with voice file encoded in FLAC format, and query parameters for control.

Query Parameters

client
The client's name you're connecting from. For spoofing purposes, let's use chromium

lang
Speech language, for example, ar-QA for Qatari Arabic, or en-US for U.S. English

@pachacamac
pachacamac / google_speech_recognition.rb
Created December 11, 2011 10:52
google speech recognition with ruby
require 'rest_client'
require 'json'
a = `sox -d --norm -t .flac - silence -l 1 0 1% 1 6.0 1% rate 16k`
#a = `arecord -q -d 3 -c 1 -f S16_LE -r 22050 -t wav | flac - -f --totally-silent -o-`
r = RestClient.post 'https://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?lang=en-US', a,
:content_type => 'audio/x-flac; rate=16000'
if j = JSON.parse(r)
(p j; `espeak 'you said: #{j['hypotheses'].first['utterance']}'`)
end
@ctcherry
ctcherry / gist:1133201
Created August 9, 2011 01:09
VLC deamon command line control with stream bookmarks
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'yaml'
require 'socket'
list_file = "~/.music"
vlc_socket = "/tmp/vlc.sock"
vlc_path = "/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC"
list_file = File.expand_path(list_file)
@mgreenly
mgreenly / gist:1109325
Created July 27, 2011 13:11
database cleaner multiple connections single orm outside of rails
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.before(:suite) do
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection database['one']
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :deletion
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection config.database['two']
DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :deletion
end
config.before(:each) do
@jcsrb
jcsrb / gist:1081548
Created July 13, 2011 23:05
get avatar from google profiles, facebook, gravatar, twitter, tumblr
function get_avatar_from_service(service, userid, size) {
// this return the url that redirects to the according user image/avatar/profile picture
// implemented services: google profiles, facebook, gravatar, twitter, tumblr, default fallback
// for google use get_avatar_from_service('google', profile-name or user-id , size-in-px )
// for facebook use get_avatar_from_service('facebook', vanity url or user-id , size-in-px or size-as-word )
// for gravatar use get_avatar_from_service('gravatar', md5 hash email@adress, size-in-px )
// for twitter use get_avatar_from_service('twitter', username, size-in-px or size-as-word )
// for tumblr use get_avatar_from_service('tumblr', blog-url, size-in-px )
// everything else will go to the fallback
// google and gravatar scale the avatar to any site, others will guided to the next best version
@ryanb
ryanb / rails_3_1_rc4_changes.md
Created May 6, 2011 01:10
The Changelogs for Rails 3.1 Beta 1

Railties 3.1 RC4

  • The new rake task assets:clean removes precompiled assets. [fxn]

  • Application and plugin generation run bundle install unless --skip-gemfile or --skip-bundle. [fxn]

  • Fixed database tasks for jdbc* adapters #jruby [Rashmi Yadav]

  • Template generation for jdbcpostgresql #jruby [Vishnu Atrai]

@rmoriz
rmoriz / Gemfile
Last active September 23, 2024 03:00
UUID primary keys in Rails 3
# Gemfile
gem 'uuidtools'
@adamstegman
adamstegman / spec_helper.rb
Created April 19, 2011 05:28
Silence RSpec specs
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.before(:all, &:silence_output)
config.after(:all, &:enable_output)
end
# Redirects stderr and stdout to /dev/null.
def silence_output
@orig_stderr = $stderr
@orig_stdout = $stdout