Dominik Bauernfeind dominikb

Unlocking the Secrets of Rails Secrets and Credentials

If you are like many (most?) of us, you have encountered Rails Credentials/Secrets and secret_key_base and may have been left a bit (or more) confused.

This post is an attempt to remove some of that confusion by

Calculate the age of a person and write it to the event's description in your birthday calendar using Google Apps Script

This script uses Google Apps Script to access one's Google Calendar and calculate the age on a person's birthday. In the best case you have a custom calendar where your birthdays are stored at. If not, uncomment line 20 and use the filter function at the bottom.

Steps to setup everything

Head to https://script.google.com/home/my and create a new project. Rename the existing file Code.gs to your liking and paste the code from calculateAge.gs.
Paste your calendar ID in line 9 (you can find it in the Google Calendar Settings)
Make sure to add the birth year of a person to the location field (or customize the script)
Customize the message in line 36

What is a lens?

Note: you can copy the file 2-lenses.js below over to repl.it and play along from home!

A lens in programming, much like a lens in the real world, allows you to focus in on a small part of a larger whole and then do something with or to

Moved to git-repository: https://github.com/denji/awesome-http-benchmark

Tools

Located in alphabetical order (not prefer)

ab – slow and single threaded, written in C
apib – most of the features of ApacheBench (ab), also designed as a more modern replacement, written in C
autocannon – fast HTTP/1.1 benchmarking tool written in Node.js
baloo – Expressive end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy, written in Go (golang)

YARD CHEATSHEET http://yardoc.org

May 2020 - updated fork: https://gist.github.com/phansch/db18a595d2f5f1ef16646af72fe1fb0e

cribbed from http://pastebin.com/xgzeAmBn

Templates to remind you of the options and formatting for the different types of objects you might want to document using YARD.

	# Redis Cheatsheet
	# All the commands you need to know


	redis-server /path/redis.conf # start redis with the related configuration file
	redis-cli # opens a redis prompt


	# Strings.

	require 'io/console'

	# Reads keypresses from the user including 2 and 3 escape character sequences.
	def read_char
	STDIN.echo = false
	STDIN.raw!

	input = STDIN.getc.chr
	if input == "\e" then
	input << STDIN.read_nonblock(3) rescue nil

	Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
	----------------------------------
	L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
	Branch mispredict 5 ns
	L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
	Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
	Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
	Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
	Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
	Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD