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@zhengjia
zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=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')
@mbrochh
mbrochh / gist:964057
Last active November 10, 2021 19:08
Fast Forward Your Fork
# kudos to https://github.com/drewlesueur
# stolen from here: https://github.com/blog/266-fast-forward-your-fork#comment-11535
git checkout -b upstream-master
git remote add upstream git://github.com/documentcloud/underscore.git
git pull upstream master
git checkout master // [my master branch]
git merge upstream-master
git push origin master
@ianmurrays
ianmurrays / deploy.rb
Created July 21, 2011 17:26
Runs test locally before deploying on capistrano.
set :test_log, "logs/capistrano.test.log"
namespace :deploy do
before 'deploy:update_code' do
puts "--> Running tests, please wait ..."
unless system "bundle exec rake > #{test_log} 2>&1" #' > /dev/null'
puts "--> Tests failed. Run `cat #{test_log}` to see what went wrong."
exit
else
puts "--> Tests passed"
@tovbinm
tovbinm / crontab
Created February 22, 2012 01:10
Logrotate & upload nginx logfiles to s3://bucket/dt=..../hostname.log...gz
# Nginx - logrotate & upload to S3
0 0 * * * /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.d/nginx
15 0 * * * s3cmd put /var/log/nginx/access.log-`date +"\%Y\%m\%d"`.gz s3://$LOGS_BUCKET_NAME/nginx-access/`date +"dt=\%Y\%m\%d"`/`hostname -s`.access.log-`date +"\%Y\%m\%d"`.gz
@jimothyGator
jimothyGator / README.md
Last active October 1, 2024 21:57
Nginx configuration for Mac OS X with Homebrew, using sites-enabled directory.
mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-{enabled,available}
cd /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/default.conf
ln -s ../sites-available/default-ssl.conf

File locations:

  • nginx.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/
  • default.conf and default-ssl.conf to /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-available
  • homebrew.mxcl.nginx.plist to /Library/LaunchDaemons/
$ rails r 'File.write("./viz.html", Rails.application.routes.router.visualizer)'
$ ruby -r webrick -e "s = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 8080, :DocumentRoot => Dir.pwd); trap('INT') { s.shutdown }; s.start"
$ open "http://localhost:8080/viz.html"
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active November 13, 2024 13:44
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@stuartsierra
stuartsierra / fresh-chrome.sh
Last active September 12, 2024 19:01
Launch new instances of Google Chrome on OS X with isolated cache, cookies, and user config
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# fresh-chrome
#
# Use this script on OS X to launch a new instance of Google Chrome
# with its own empty cache, cookies, and user configuration.
#
# The first time you run this script, it will launch a new Google
# Chrome instance with a permanent user-data directory, which you can
# customize below. Perform any initial setup you want to keep on every
@be9
be9 / paginate.rb
Created September 5, 2013 04:18
kaminari + JSON API pagination helper
def paginate(scope, default_per_page = 20)
collection = scope.page(params[:page]).per((params[:per_page] || default_per_page).to_i)
current, total, per_page = collection.current_page, collection.num_pages, collection.limit_value
return [{
pagination: {
current: current,
previous: (current > 1 ? (current - 1) : nil),
next: (current == total ? nil : (current + 1)),
@plentz
plentz / nginx.conf
Last active November 14, 2024 08:35
Best nginx configuration for improved security(and performance)
# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048