railsmonk

Hey, I'm Dima Sabanin and I love programming and I've been doing this since I was 10 years old. For the last 3 years I work with Rails.

I study Zen, I have a family with a small kid. This is my brain dump.

Email: sdmitry@gmail.com

Why Phusion Passenger better than Mongrel for development?

It starts new processors for new requests automatically, and kills them after they are not needed. So if you have a big site running locally, and you don’t want to setup mongrel cluster and load balancer, my advice is to go with Passenger. It’s really a piece of cake to setup if you have apache installed (and you do, if you’re on Mac or Linux).

Oct
22nd

Wed

Official Git Autocompletion Script for BASH

Installation instruction are in the header of the link. For the lazy it’s:

$ cd ~; wget [link]
$ echo 'source bash-git-completion.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

The script is just awesome, it’s very thorough and proivdes completion for commands, commands options, branch names, and all kinds of stuff.

The link to a file I posted points to my server, but if it’s down for some reason you can always get latest copy of this script at git contrib repository.

Oct
21st

Tue

[PDF] Printable version of Git Cheatsheet Taken from http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git and post-processed to be easier on eyes when printed.

Sep
27th

Sat

My StringTidy plugin

This is really tiny one.

About

Wraps Tidy gem into String for easier usage. Allows you to clean up portions of HTML code in strings, without any effort.

Requires Tidy gem and Tidy C lib (which is installed on Mac and most Unixes by default).

Defines String#tidy(options={})

Usage examples

Installation

gem install tidy
./script/plugin install \ git://github.com/railsmonk/string_tidy.git

Sources

http://github.com/railsmonk/string_tidy/tree/master

There’s also some other stuff on my github page, check it out.

Sep
8th

Mon

No broken tests in git repos

Following code forbids commit to repository if tests don’t pass. Script for rspec, but should probably work with anything else - just replace rake spec with rake test.

Sep
6th

Sat

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality.
When you understand this, you see that you are nothing,
and being nothing, you are everything.
That is all.

— Kalu Rinpoche

Aug
8th

Fri

ConfigurationFile plugin for Rails

My plugin to handle YAML configuration files in Rails apps.

For most cases just YAML::load will work, but in my case I needed string interpolation, so I decided to make a little plugin out of that.

Here’s simple usage pattern:

Feel free to fork and do whatever you want with this.

Update:
Forgot the link to plugin itself: http://github.com/railsmonk/configuration-file-plugin

Aug
4th

Mon

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

— Quote of the Day

Jun
19th

Thu

life freezes without github

Jun
18th

Wed

Awesome Git cheatsheet