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redtailtech / espn-api-docs.md
Created May 20, 2025 03:45 — forked from akeaswaran/espn-api-docs.md
ESPN hidden API Docs
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redtailtech / ruby-ldap-sample.rb
Created May 4, 2018 06:17 — forked from jeffjohnson9046/ruby-ldap-sample.rb
Some VERY basic LDAP interaction in Ruby using Net::LDAP.
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# This Gist is some crib notes/tests/practice/whatever for talking to Active Directory via LDAP. The (surprisingly
# helpful) documentation for Net::LDAP can be found here: http://net-ldap.rubyforge.org/Net/LDAP.html
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require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ldap'
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# HELPER/UTILITY METHOD
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redtailtech / Upgrading rails 5.0 to 5.1
Created March 22, 2018 03:44 — forked from kirankarki/Upgrading rails 5.0 to 5.1
Notes on upgrading rails 5.0 to 5.1
1. Change rails version in Gemfile
> gem 'rails', '~> 5.1', '>= 5.1.4'
2. Remove Gemfile.lock
> git rm Gemfile.lock
3. Run bundle install command
> bundle install --jobs=5
4. Run rails' app update to apply changes to app
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redtailtech / deploy.rb
Created September 11, 2017 22:46 — forked from jhjguxin/deploy.rb
Start and Stop tasks for resque workers, with capistrano deploy hook (without God)
after "deploy:symlink", "deploy:restart_workers"
##
# Rake helper task.
# http://pastie.org/255489
# http://geminstallthat.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/rake-tasks-through-capistrano/
# http://ananelson.com/said/on/2007/12/30/remote-rake-tasks-with-capistrano/
def run_remote_rake(rake_cmd)
rake_args = ENV['RAKE_ARGS'].to_s.split(',')
cmd = "cd #{fetch(:latest_release)} && #{fetch(:rake, "rake")} RAILS_ENV=#{fetch(:rails_env, "production")} #{rake_cmd}"
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redtailtech / deploy.rb
Created September 11, 2017 22:46 — forked from jhjguxin/deploy.rb
Start and Stop tasks for resque workers, with capistrano deploy hook (without God)
after "deploy:symlink", "deploy:restart_workers"
##
# Rake helper task.
# http://pastie.org/255489
# http://geminstallthat.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/rake-tasks-through-capistrano/
# http://ananelson.com/said/on/2007/12/30/remote-rake-tasks-with-capistrano/
def run_remote_rake(rake_cmd)
rake_args = ENV['RAKE_ARGS'].to_s.split(',')
cmd = "cd #{fetch(:latest_release)} && #{fetch(:rake, "rake")} RAILS_ENV=#{fetch(:rails_env, "production")} #{rake_cmd}"
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redtailtech / gist:1dc634c998e5dcad1bb4baeafef439f8
Created July 30, 2016 21:57 — forked from anonymous/gist:139987
A ruby snippet for Parsing and cleaning Word HTML
#
# This function takes messy Word HTML pasted into a WYSIWYG and cleans it up
# It leaves the tags and attributes specified in the params
# Copyright (c) 2009, Radio New Zealand
# Released under the MIT license
require 'rubygems'
require 'sanitize'
def clean_up_word_html(html, elements = ['p', 'b', 'h1', 'h2', 'h3', 'h4', 'h5', 'h6'], attributes={})
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redtailtech / es.sh
Created March 19, 2014 00:09
cd ~
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jre-headless -y
### Check http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/ for latest version of ElasticSearch and replace wget link below
# NEW WAY / EASY WAY
wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb
sudo dpkg -i elasticsearch-1.0.1.deb
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redtailtech / gist:8327684
Created January 9, 2014 01:09 — forked from tagrudev/gist:4276467
##
Lets say we have YoloFont.otf
1. We add it to vendor/assets/fonts/ folder
2. Me personaly creates a file named fonts.css.scss in app/assets/stylesheets
In it I have
@font-face{
font-family: 'YoloFont';
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redtailtech / The difference between the junior and senior Rails developer
Created November 27, 2013 04:43 — forked from njonsson/The difference between the junior and senior Rails developer
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