Tim Lucas toolmantim

Airlines w/ bike as extra:

Air Berlin - 50 EUR - get 32kg http://www.airberlin.com/en-DE/site/flug_gepaeck_luggage.php#sondergepaeck
Tiger http://www.tigerairways.com/au/en/fees2.php
AirAsia - 50-100 AUD - http://www.airasia.com/ot/en/flightinfo/feeschedule.page
KLM http://www.klm.com/travel/de_en/prepare_for_travel/baggage/excess/bagagge_piececoncept.htm
Virgin Australia - just an additional piece of baggage http://www.virginaustralia.com/eu/en/plan/baggage/checked-baggage/#international-short-haul
Virgin Atlantic - free - http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/us/en/travel-information/baggage/sports-equipment.html
Qatar - 23kg normal, 10kg for bike, US$13/kg over that
Finnair

Retaining line numbers with the Rails asset pipeline

By default the Rails 3 asset pipeline uses the Uglifier gem to optimize and minify your Javascript. One of its many optimisations is to remove all whitespace, turning your Javascript into one very long line of code.

Whist removing all the newlines helps to reduce the file size, it has the disadvantage of making your Javascript harder to debug. If you've tried to track down Javascript errors in minified Javascript files you'll know the lack of whitespace does make life harder.

Luckily there is a simple solution: to configure Uglifier to add newlines back into the code after it performs its optimisations. And if you're serving your files correctly gzip'd, the newlines add only a small increase to the final file size.

You can configure Uglifier to add the newlines by setting the following in your Rails 3 config/production.rb file:

(a gist based on the old toolmantim article on setting up remote repos)

To collaborate in a distributed development process you’ll need to push code to remotely accessible repositories.

This is somewhat of a follow-up to the previous article setting up a new rails app with git.

For the impatient

Set up the new bare repo on the server:

	require File.expand_path('../boot', __FILE__)

	require 'rails/all'

	# Silence deprecation warnings until Heroku stops injecting plugins into
	# vendor/plugins
	if Rails.env.production?
	ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true
	end

	class MyApp.Router extends Backbone.Router

	hasPushState: window.history and window.history.pushState

	# Override the navigate function to remove Backbone's #hash fallback for
	# non-pushState browsers. Instead we just navigate to the new location using
	# window.location
	navigate: (fragment, trigger) ->
	if @hasPushState
	super(arguments...)

	# Additional methods for Goliath::TestHelper to make simple Goliath testing
	# simple. You might need the other syntax for testing gnarly stuff, but I've
	# yet to need it. To use, just include this in your spec_helper.rb.
	#
	# Your spec must respond to #api and return the Goliath API class to test.
	#
	# @example
	# describe MyAPI do
	# let(:api) { MyAPI }
	# describe "GET /" do

	# re. commit
	# https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/0d3615f04c79f6e90d8ab33fdfc920b8faac9cb8
	#
	# Example of the slowdown if you `require 'tzinfo'` every time Time.find_zone is called
	#
	# This became a big problem when unmarshal'ing TimeWithZone objects, in say a Rails action, from memcache. 500ms was added to every request.
	#
	# e.g. of the problem:
	#
	# ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone#marshal_load calls

	def pluralize(number, singular)
	<<-HTML
	<span class="#{singular.downcase}">
	#{number}
	<span>#{number == 1 ? singular : singular.pluralize}</span>
	</span>
	HTML
	end

	# Serve images and stylesheets (but not JS files) from a CDN
	config.action_controller.asset_host = Proc.new {\|source\|
	source !~ /\.js$/ ? "mycdn.com" : nil
	}

	# An example of rolling your own simple content_for helper in Sinatra
	helpers do
	def content_for(key, &block)
	@content \|\|= {}
	@content[key] = capture_haml(&block)
	end
	def content(key)
	@content && @content[key]
	end
	end