| -module(date_util). | |
| -compile(export_all). | |
| epoch() -> | |
| now_to_seconds(now()) | |
| . | |
| epoch_hires() -> | |
| now_to_seconds_hires(now()) | |
| . |
| Someone recently asked the following question in the discussion forum of the Rubyists LinkedIn group: What separates a junior Rails developer from a senior one? | |
| My response follows. Join us at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=120725 to weigh in on this and other topics of interest to Rubyists. As of today there are almost 1,200 members, including numerous movers and shakers in the Ruby and Rails communities. | |
| “Distinguishing between junior and senior people in the Rails world is not so different from making the distinction in other web development environments. | |
| “Junior Rails people have not dealt with scaling issues to the degree that senior people have. Getting a public-facing Rails application to perform under significant stress is more challenging than doing the same with other building materials such as PHP. Senior people know how to performance-test Rails applications, where to look for bottlenecks, and how to eliminate them one after another until performance is acceptable in real conditions. The Ra |
| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |
| # parses out the current branch you're on. See: http://www.harukizaemon.com/2008/05/deploying-branches-with-capistrano.html | |
| current_branch = `git branch`.match(/\* (\S+)\s/m)[1] | |
| # use the branch specified as a param, then use the current branch. If all fails use master branch | |
| set :branch, ENV['branch'] || current_branch || "master" # you can use the 'branch' parameter on deployment to specify the branch you wish to deploy |
| # MySQL. Versions 4.1 and 5.0 are recommended. | |
| # | |
| # Install the MySQL driver: | |
| # gem install mysql2 | |
| # | |
| # And be sure to use new-style password hashing: | |
| # http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/old-client.html | |
| development: | |
| adapter: mysql2 | |
| encoding: utf8 |
| :+1: | |
| :-1: | |
| :airplane: | |
| :art: | |
| :bear: | |
| :beer: | |
| :bike: | |
| :bomb: | |
| :book: | |
| :bulb: |
Yahoo! provides its GeoPlanet data as three separate TSV files, available for download here.
That's a database with some 17 million records:
Sublime Text 2 ships with a CLI called subl (why not "sublime", go figure). This utility is hidden in the following folder (assuming you installed Sublime in /Applications like normal folk. If this following line opens Sublime Text for you, then bingo, you're ready.
open /Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl
You can find more (official) details about subl here: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html
| Get the Heroku db as detailed here: | |
| http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pgbackups#exporting_via_a_backup | |
| 1. heroku pgbackups:capture | |
| 2. heroku pgbackups:url <backup_num> #=>backup_url | |
| - get backup_num with cmd "heroku pgbackups" | |
| 3. curl -o latest.dump <backup_url> | |
| Then locally do: | |
| $ pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U myuser -d mydb latest.dump |
