maricris-sn

require 'open-uri'

module SocialUtils

  def self.get_facebook_shares(url)
  	f = open("http://graph.facebook.com/?id=#{url}")
		response = f.read()
		shares = JSON.parse(response)['shares']
		return shares.nil? ? 0 : JSON.parse(response)['shares']
	end

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

courtenay

# RAILS 2.3.15
#
# Since <tag type="yaml"> was removed from rails' xml parsing, 
# but not from its to_xml method, rails can't talk to an API 
# generated by rails, if you have serialized attributes.

# This can be put in config/initializers and you should probably 
# upgrade to rails 3 already. Ugh.

# Three parts:

caged

# Returns a lambda used to determine what number is at t in the range of a and b
#
#   interpolate_number(0, 500).call(0.5) # 250
#   interpolate_number(0, 500).call(1) # 500
#
def interpolate_number(a, b)
  a = a.to_f
  b = b.to_f
  b -= a
  lambda { |t| a + b * t }

futuremill-ltd

# From a fresh install of squeeze
apt-get install ruby rubygems # Need ruby to use fpm
gem1.8 install fpm --no-ri --no-rdoc

apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev ncurses-dev libyaml-dev

wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz
tar -zxvf ruby-1.9.3-p125.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p125
rm -rf /tmp/ruby193