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# Poor Man's Fiber (API compatible Thread based Fiber implementation for Ruby 1.8)
# (c) 2008 Aman Gupta (tmm1)

unless defined? Fiber
  require 'thread'

  class FiberError < StandardError; end

  class Fiber
    def initialize

virtualstaticvoid

require 'rubygems'
require 'ruote'

engine = Ruote::Engine.new(Ruote::Worker.new(Ruote::HashStorage.new))

engine.register do
  catchall Ruote::StorageParticipant
end

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# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

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module Test
  module Unit
    TestCase = RSpec::Core::ExampleGroup
  end
end

class Test::Unit::TestCase
  def self.inherited(host)
    host.set_it_up host.name.gsub(/(Spec|Test)/,'')
    def host.method_added(name)

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# -*- mode: ruby; coding: utf-8 -*-

if defined? Rails
  railsrc = __FILE__ + '.rails'
  load railsrc if File.exist? railsrc
  envrc   = File.join( Rails.root, '.irbrc' )
  load envrc if File.exist? envrc
end

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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

virtualstaticvoid

user  nginx;
worker_processes  5;

error_log  /var/log/nginx.error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}

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# CQRS+ES Domain DSL

class Symbol
  def snake_case
    to_s.gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/, '\1_\2').
      gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/, '\1_\2').
      tr("-", "_").
      downcase.to_sym
  end

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# Author: Pieter Noordhuis
# Description: Simple demo to showcase Redis PubSub with EventMachine
#
# Update 7 Oct 2010:
# - This example does *not* appear to work with Chrome >=6.0. Apparently,
#   the WebSocket protocol implementation in the cramp gem does not work
#   well with Chrome's (newer) WebSocket implementation.
#
# Requirements:
# - rubygems: eventmachine, thin, cramp, sinatra, yajl-ruby

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require 'yaml'
require 'logger'
require 'active_record'

namespace :db do
  def create_database config
    options = {:charset => 'utf8', :collation => 'utf8_unicode_ci'}

    create_db = lambda do |config|
      ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection config.merge('database' => nil)