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Common Rails Commands

rake db:create

Creates all the databases specified in config/database.yml

rake db:migrate

Run existing migrations in db/migrate
Generates the schema.rb file

Analysis of Slim vs. Haml Project Health

Static data as of April 13, 2015, some updates as of October 1, 2015

#	Metric	Haml	Slim	Winner
1	Issues			Slim
2	Stars			Slim
3	Quality		--	Haml
4	Test Coverage	![Code Climate coverage](https://i

WDI Admissions Assignment

For Opportunity Fund Applicants

We'd love to learn more about you and your interest in programming. In order to be successful in WDI, you really have to enjoy programming, and the only way to truly know that is for you to try it. With that in mind, we'd like you to do some coding before your next interview, and then chat with us about your work. Specifically, we'd like you to:

First, complete the introductory tutorials on Dash. Please complete all parts of the first two projects – you'll learn how to create a simple personal website and build a responsive blog. The other sections are certainly helpful, but you won't need to incorporate what you learn from part 3 onwards into your personal website.
Get set up with your own environment. Watch the video here to learn how t

Rails naming conventions

General Ruby conventions

Class names are CamelCase.

Methods and variables are snake_case.

Methods with a ? suffix will return a boolean.

Change the email address for a git commit.

$ git commit --amend --author="Author Name <[email protected]>"

or

$ git commit --amend --reset-author

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

Capybara Actions

# Anchor
click_link 'Save'

# Button
click_button 'awesome'

# Both above

	tell application "Evernote"
	activate
	create note from file theFile notebook {"Personal Archive"} tags {"receipt/statement"}
	end tell

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	-- Import tasks from Things to OmniFocus
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	-- Script taken from: http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?t=14846&page=2
	-- Added: creation date, due date, start date functionality
	-- Empty your Things Trash first.
	-- Note that this won't move over scheduled recurring tasks.