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@brookr
brookr / gist:2493622
Created April 25, 2012 21:34 — forked from derekharmel/gist:2399684
How to fix pow not using the correct gemset
# From the project root
rvm env -- `rvm current` >> .powenv
@traviskroberts
traviskroberts / gist:2830535
Created May 29, 2012 20:33
FactoryGirl Polymorphic Association
class Alert < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :alertable, :polymorphic => true
end
class Region < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :alerts, :as => :alertable
end
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active October 19, 2025 15:29
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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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
@marktheunissen
marktheunissen / pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Last active August 25, 2025 12:52 — forked from phred/pedantically_commented_playbook.yml
Insanely complete Ansible playbook, showing off all the options
This playbook has been removed as it is now very outdated.
@peter
peter / creating-edgerails-app.sh
Created June 30, 2012 21:03
Creating and Deploying an EdgeRails (Rails 4) Application to Heroku
# 0. Make sure you have Ruby 1.9.3 installed, and optionally RVM and PostgreSQL
# 0.2 If you are on the Mac, make sure you have a c compiler by installing XCode Command Line Tools or gcc4.2 with homebrew
# https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Custom-GCC-and-cross-compilers
# 0.5 Make sure you have bundler version ~> 1.2 as Rails depends on it
gem install bundler
# 1. Get edge Rails source (master branch)
git clone https://github.com/rails/rails.git
@mikhailov
mikhailov / 0. nginx_setup.sh
Last active August 29, 2025 05:48
NGINX+SPDY with Unicorn. True Zero-Downtime unless migrations. Best practices.
# Nginx+Unicorn best-practices congifuration guide. Heartbleed fixed.
# We use latest stable nginx with fresh **openssl**, **zlib** and **pcre** dependencies.
# Some extra handy modules to use: --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_gzip_static_module
#
# Deployment structure
#
# SERVER:
# /etc/init.d/nginx (1. nginx)
# /home/app/public_html/app_production/current (Capistrano directory)
#
@kesor
kesor / Gemfile
Last active September 30, 2019 09:04
Vagrantfile to create a chef-server (11.x) and a client box that uses it.
source :rubygems
gem 'json', '= 1.5.4' # knife/chef 11.0 and 11.20 is broken with json 1.5.5/1.7.7
gem 'vagrant'
gem 'vagrant-hostmaster'
@cypher
cypher / gist:5038241
Last active December 14, 2015 05:49
I got an error while trying out Rails 4 Beta 1 on Ruby 2.0 (running rbenv): `connect': SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) Solution via http://ikm.hatenablog.jp/entry/2013/02/13/031343: Make sure you have an up-to-date version of OpenSSL installed (at least 1.0.…
CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=$(brew --prefix openssl) --with-readline-dir=$(brew --prefix readline)" \
RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=$(brew --prefix openssl)" \
rbenv install 2.0.0-p0
@amichal
amichal / select2_input.rb
Created May 6, 2013 17:20
select2 integration with simple_form
class Select2Input < SimpleForm::Inputs::CollectionSelectInput
def input
options[:include_hidden] ||= false
options[:include_blanks] ||= false
options[:input_html][:id] ||= "#{@builder.options[:as]}_#{attribute_name}"
dom_selector = "##{options[:input_html][:id]}"
if select2_options = options.delete(:select2)
options[:collection] = [] + Array(@builder.object.send(attribute_name))
end
@jed
jed / how-to-set-up-stress-free-ssl-on-os-x.md
Last active February 27, 2025 16:31
How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

  • Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

  • Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying