raspberry-pi
A few months ago, I was inspired by this post on Reddit, titled: Food items should have QR codes that instruct the microwave exactly what to do. Like high for 2 minutes, let stand 1 minute, medium 1 minutes.. I thought this was a pretty cool idea, and that it
ruby
Whenever I'm looking at backtraces, logs, or failing tests in the terminal, I often need to open one of those files in my text editor. It was previously a semi-arduous process that involved highlighting, copying, pasting and the return key. Now, all I need to do is double-click
ruby
Note: This post is for people who use the terminal to run Rails generators. It probably won't interest you if your editor has a plugin to run them. After running a Rails generator, you'll often need to edit the generated files in your text editor. Rails
ruby
Every Rails developer has probably seen the following error: Could not find <gem> in any of the sources Run `bundle install` to install missing gems. This happens if you or someone else adds a gem to your Gemfile, or if a gem version is updated in Gemfile.lock,
rails
capistrano_colors has been merged into capistrano. If you update capistrano to version 2.13.5, you will no longer need to include capistrano_colors in your Gemfile. Don't forget to also remove require 'capistrano_colors' from config/deploy.rb. If you've been using
linux
I'm saving a little space in my terminal by replacing my username and group (ndbroadbent) with a single symbol. I'm doing this in my prompt, as well as in the output of ls commands: (My laptop's hostname is also represented by a symbol.) For
ruby
A day in the life of a Rails developer will usually involve a few git pulls, bundle installs, and switching between different projects. I thought it would be great if my projects could be automatically kept up-to-date, so that I don't have to spend too much time updating
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Update: I've updated the build status checking script, because updating all branches was taking too long (over 20 minutes.) Now it performs frequent updates for the current branch, and only periodic updates for all branches. Travis CI is a distributed continuous integration service for the open source community,
ruby
I'm currently doing a lot of work on an open source Ruby on Rails project called Fat Free CRM. The code is hosted on github, and we are using the amazing continuous integration service provided by Travis CI. Find out more about Travis CI here. We've
bundler
TL;DR: bundle install != gem install Maybe you want to update haml to the latest version. You tried to run bundle install haml, but now some really weird stuff is happening. Bundler decided to install all of your gems from scratch into a ./haml folder. Even when you try bundle
ruby
I wanted the LCD screen on my apartment door to display a message on certain days, such as birthdays, Christmas, and Easter. I didn't realize how hard it was to calculate which day Easter Sunday is... def easter(year) c=year/100 n=year-19*(year/19) k=(c-17)
ruby
Building a ruby gem these days is really, really easy. Bundler provides a great framework generator to get you started. Bundler also lets you install a gem straight from a github repository, so now is the time to say goodbye to your git submodules and start packaging your code into
ruby
At work, we use software called Atlassian Bamboo. It does CI (continuous integration) for us, so whenever a developer updates the code, it will run all of the software's tests, and makes sure everything still works. We had a USB Missile launcher lying around, and I thought it
compaq-evo-t20
Octopus cards in Hong Kong can be used to purchase almost anything, such as groceries, McDonalds, and public transport. Since everyone has one, a lot of apartments are using them for access control. One of my first projects after moving back to Hong Kong was installing an electronic lock on
compaq-evo-t20
I've finished most of the work I'm going to do on my shell.fm ruby server. Its written on sinatra + jquery + jquery-ui (so, a lot of ajax calls). It also requires my custom shell.fm fork if you want the volume control to work. You can
ruby
http://github.com/ndbroadbent/youtube_jukebox A ruby script that downloads youtube videos, converts them to mp3, and plays them in a vlc playlist as they are processed.