Zac Stewart zacstewart

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

ice cream
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp Ovaltine
1-2 tbsp peanut butter
1-2 raw eggs
1 banana

Breaking table–model–controller symmetry

A while ago I hit a lull in my skill advancement as a Rails developer. I had long since learned to think of my resources as resources. I did my best to limit my controller actions the basic CRUD methods. I considered the "fat model, skinny controller" mantra to be sacrosanct. But I was still often finding myself going way out of my way to implement otherwise mundane features, for example sending mail after saving an object or adding a routine accept/reject to something.

	set :application, 'zacstewart.com'
	set :repository, '[email protected]:zacstewart/zacstewart.com.git'
	set :scm, :git
	set :deploy_via, :copy
	set :branch, "master"
	set :copy_compression, :gzip
	set :use_sudo, false
	set :host, 'zacstewart.com'

	role :web, host

	.VimballRecord
	.netrwhist
	.swp/
	gvimrc
	vimrc

	require 'digest/md5'

	def gfm(text)
	# Extract pre blocks
	extractions = {}
	text.gsub!(%r{<pre>.*?</pre>}m) do \|match\|
	md5 = Digest::MD5.hexdigest(match)
	extractions[md5] = match
	"{gfm-extraction-#{md5}}"
	end

	_ = require 'underscore'

	module.exports = (robot) ->
	class Leaderboard
	constructor: ->
	robot.brain.once 'loaded', =>
	robot.brain.data.leaderboard ?= {}
	@games = robot.brain.data.leaderboard.games ?= []
	addGame: (winner, loser) ->
	@games.push

	#!/usr/bin/env sh
	# This transforms the 13 answers to the WORKING column
	# into integers 0-12, 5 answers to MUSIC into 0-4,
	# normailizes LIST_OWN, and LIST_BACK into integer values
	# and drops rows with variations of "16+ hours"
	# (loses 2.623031698% of the data)
	INFILE=$1
	sed -e "
	s/\"Employed 30+ hours a week\"/0/g;
	s/\"Employed 8-29 hours per week\"/1/g;

	class AnonymousUser < User
	attr_accessible *ACCESSIBLE_ATTRS, :type, :token, as: :registrant

	def register(params)
	params = params.merge(type: 'User', token: nil)
	self.update_attributes(params, as: :registrant)
	end
	end

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