Richard Lynch rjlynch

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

Thanks to this article by Christoph Berg

Directories and files

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workflow:

$ rails g model NameOfModel
    invoke  active_record
    create    db/migrate/YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_create_name_of_models.rb

I'm planning on either writing this up in detail or maybe doing a screencast about screencasting, but I'll give a short version here.

On sound quality:

This matters a lot. In decreasing order of importance:

Remove echo. You have to hear this to understand. Set up a mic in front of your mouth and record a sentence. Then, put a thick comforter over you and the mic and say it again at the same distance. Listen to

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

	Ansible playbook to setup HTTPS using Let's encrypt on nginx.

	The Ansible playbook installs everything needed to serve static files from a nginx server over HTTPS.
	The server pass A rating on [SSL Labs](https://www.ssllabs.com/).

	To use:
	1. Install [Ansible](https://www.ansible.com/)
	2. Setup an Ubuntu 16.04 server accessible over ssh
	3. Create `/etc/ansible/hosts` according to template below and change example.com to your domain
	4. Copy the rest of the files to an empty directory (`playbook.yml` in the root of that folder and the rest in the `templates` subfolder)

	# lib/tasks/db.rake
	namespace :db do

	desc "Dumps the database to db/APP_NAME.dump"
	task :dump => :environment do
	cmd = nil
	with_config do \|app, host, db, user\|
	cmd = "pg_dump --host #{host} --username #{user} --verbose --clean --no-owner --no-acl --format=c #{db} > #{Rails.root}/db/#{app}.dump"
	end
	puts cmd

	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'open-uri'

	# Get a Nokogiri::HTML:Document for the page we're interested in...

	doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.google.com/search?q=tenderlove'))

	# Do funky things with it using Nokogiri::XML::Node methods...

	####

	# activerecord-3.0.0/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb
	# Maps logical Rails types to MySQL-specific data types.
	def type_to_sql(type, limit = nil, precision = nil, scale = nil)
	return super unless type.to_s == 'integer'

	case limit
	when 1; 'tinyint'
	when 2; 'smallint'
	when 3; 'mediumint'
	when nil, 4, 11; 'int(11)' # compatibility with MySQL default

	#
	# Working with branches
	#

	# Get the current branch name (not so useful in itself, but used in
	# other aliases)
	branch-name = "!git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"
	# Push the current branch to the remote "origin", and set it to track
	# the upstream branch
	publish = "!git push -u origin $(git branch-name)"