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Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

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	# If you work with git, you've probably had that nagging sensation of not knowing what branch you are on. Worry no longer!

	export PS1="\\w:\$(git branch 2>/dev/null \| grep '^*' \| colrm 1 2)\$ "

	# This will change your prompt to display not only your working directory but also your current git branch, if you have one. Pretty nifty!

	# ~/code/web:beta_directory$ git checkout master
	# Switched to branch "master"
	# ~/code/web:master$ git checkout beta_directory
	# Switched to branch "beta_directory"

	require 'test_helper'
	require 'minitest/autorun'

	module Tenderlove
	class Spec < MiniTest::Spec
	include ActiveSupport::Testing::SetupAndTeardown
	include ActiveRecord::TestFixtures

	alias :method_name :__name__ if defined? :__name__
	self.fixture_path = File.join(Rails.root, 'test', 'fixtures')

	require 'test_helper'
	require 'minitest/autorun'

	class MiniTest::Spec
	include ActiveSupport::Testing::SetupAndTeardown
	include ActiveRecord::TestFixtures

	alias :method_name :__name__ if defined? :__name__
	self.fixture_path = File.join(Rails.root, 'test', 'fixtures')
	end

	connection = Faraday::Connection.new('http://example.com') do \|builder\|
	builder.request :url_encoded # for POST/PUT params
	builder.adapter :net_http
	end

	# same as above, short form:
	connection = Faraday.new 'http://example.com'

	# GET
	connection.get '/posts'

	# autoload concerns
	module YourApp
	class Application < Rails::Application
	config.autoload_paths += %W(
	#{config.root}/app/controllers/concerns
	#{config.root}/app/models/concerns
	)
	end
	end

	module Ohm
	module Expiring
	def self.included(base)
	base.send(:extend, ClassMethods)
	end

	module ClassMethods
	def expire(ttl)
	@@expire = ttl.to_i
	end

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Init file for Redis server
	#
	# chkconfig: - 98 02
	# description: Persistent key-value db
	#
	# processname: redis
	# config: /etc/redis.conf
	# pidfile: /var/run/redis.pid