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steventux / change_publishing_app_for_email_campaing_content.rb

Created February 12, 2016 09:57

	DraftContentItem.where(publishing_app: "email-campaign-frontend").each do \|content_item\|
	content_item.update_attributes!(publishing_app: "share-sale-publisher")

	payload = Presenters::ContentStorePresenter.present(content_item)
	ContentStoreWorker.perform_async(
	content_store: Adapters::DraftContentStore,
	base_path: content_item.base_path,
	payload: payload,
	)
	end

steventux / breadcrumbs-minimal-format.json

Last active January 19, 2016 09:42

	{
	"primary_parent":
	{
	"web_url": "https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad/travel-abroad",
	"title": "Travel abroad",
	"parent": {
	"web_url": "https://www.gov.uk/browse/abroad",
	"title": "Passports, travel and living abroad",
	"parent": null
	}

steventux / gist:10279962

Created April 9, 2014 14:57

Quickly query the Github API with Ruby for ...stuff

	require 'open-uri'
	require 'json'

	buff = ''
	open('https://api.github.com/repos/alphagov/smart-answers/pulls') { \|f\| f.each_line { \|line\| buff << line } }

	pulls = JSON.parse(buff)

	puts pulls.first['user']

steventux / gist:2990759

Created June 25, 2012 19:36

MiniTest + Rails + Devise test_helper

	ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
	require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)
	require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/blueprints'
	require 'faker'
	require 'rails/test_help'
	require 'minitest/autorun'
	require 'minitest/pride'

	class MiniTest::Unit::TestCase
	include MiniTest::ActiveRecordAssertions

steventux / gist:2414348

Created April 18, 2012 15:29

Getting Padrino to play nicely with Content-Type => 'application/json' (the default for Backbone JS).

	use Rack::Parser, :content_types => {
	'application/json' => Proc.new { \|body\| ::MultiJson.decode body }
	}

steventux / gist:2368493

Created April 12, 2012 15:49

MiniTest + ActiveRecord associations helper methods

	module MiniTest

	module Assertions

	module ActiveRecord

	# assert_association User, :has_many, :editables, :polymorphic => true
	#
	def assert_association(clazz, association, associate, options={})
	reflected_assoc = clazz.reflect_on_association(associate)

steventux / gist:2172792

Created March 23, 2012 17:03

Benchmarks of POST to Padrino with postdata of 180c chars using various datastores and insertion techniques. (Ruby 1.9.3 + Passenger 3.0.11)

	# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	# Passenger Ruby 1.9.3 Mysql AR create
	# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	Server Software: Apache/2.2.14
	Server Hostname: perf-test.local
	Server Port: 80

	Document Path: /message
	Document Length: 0 bytes

steventux / gist:2024426

Created March 12, 2012 20:18

Javascript bitwise encoding

	var Encryption = (function() {

	function generateKey(seed) {
	var key = ""
	while (key.length < seed) key += Math.srand(seed)
	return key
	}

	/*
	* @param 'val' - a String to encode or a byte[] to decode.

steventux / gist:1559909

Created January 4, 2012 12:49

Turns a Javascript string into a function, can handle namespaced/contextual functions.

	/**
	* Given the String "Foo.who.bar" this function returns the function bar() from the context of Foo.who
	* handy when you need to call or apply a namespaced function from a String representation.
	*/
	var stringToFunction = function(str) {
	var nsArr = str.split("."),
	parentNs = window,
	len = nsArr.length;
	for (var idx = 0; idx < len; idx++) {
	parentNs = parentNs[nsArr[idx]];

steventux / gist:1151384

Created August 17, 2011 11:46

ActionView date_select calendar logic in javascript

	document.observe("dom:loaded", function() {
	var DAYS_IN_MONTH = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];
	var dateEl = $('project_expiry_date_3i');
	var monthEl = $('project_expiry_date_2i');
	var yearEl = $('project_expiry_date_1i');
	if (dateEl && monthEl && yearEl) {
	var currentDateIndex = dateEl.selectedIndex;
	function leapYearAdjustedDays() {
	var daysInMonth = DAYS_IN_MONTH[monthEl.selectedIndex];
	// Leap year calc.