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Interesting script written in Ruby: “The Globe”

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Minutes ago I received this link from some friends. It’s very interesting (and crazy).

Create an empty ruby file, paste this content and save as a.rb.

v=0000;eval$s=%q~d=%!^Lcf<LK8,                  _@7gj*LJ=c5nM)Tp1g0%Xv.,S[<>YoP
4ZojjV)O>qIH1/n[|2yE[>:ieC       "%.#%  :::##"       97N-A&Kj_K_><wS5rtWk@*a+Y5
yH?b[F^e7C/56j|pmRe+:)B     "##%      ::##########"     O98(Zh)'Iof*nm.,$C5Nyt=
PPu01Avw^<IiQ=5$'D-y?    "##:         ###############"    g6`YT+qLw9k^ch|K'),tc
6ygIL8xI#LNz3v}T=4W    "#            #.   .####:#######"    lL27FZ0ij)7TQCI)P7u
}RT5-iJbbG5P-DHB<.   "              ##### # :############"   R,YvZ_rnv6ky-G+4U'
$*are@b4U351Q-ug5   "              #######################"   00x8RR%`Om7VDp4M5
PFixrPvl&<p[]1IJ   "              ############:####  %#####"   EGgDt8Lm#;bc4zS^
y]0`_PstfUxOC(q   "              .#############:##%   .##  ."   /,}.YOIFj(k&q_V
zcaAi?]^lCVYp!;  " %%            .################.     #.   "  ;s="v=%04o;ev"%
(;v=(v-($*+[45,  ":####:          :##############%       :   "  ])[n=0].to_i;)%
360)+"al$s=%q#{  "%######.              #########            "  ;;"%c"%126+$s<<
126}";d.gsub!(/  "##########.           #######%             "  |\s|".*"/,"");;
require"zlib"||  "###########           :######.             "  ;d=d.unpack"C*"
d.map{|c|n=(n||  ":#########:           .######: .           "  )*90+(c-2)%91};
e=["%x"%n].pack   " :#######%           :###### #:          "   &&"H*";e=Zlib::
Inflate.inflate(   "  ######%           .####% ::          "   &&e).unpack("b*"
)[0];22.times{|y|   "  ####%             %###             "   ;w=(Math.sqrt(1-(
(y*2.0-21)/22)**(;   " .###:             .#%             "   ;2))*23).floor;(w*
2-1).times{|x|u=(e+    " %##                           "    )[y*z=360,z]*2;u=u[
90*x/w+v+90,90/w];s[(    " #.                        "    ;y*80)+120-w+x]=(""<<
32<<".:%#")[4*u.count((     " .                   "     ;"0"))/u.size]}};;puts\
s+";_ The Qlobe#{" "*18+ (       "#  :#######"       ;"Copyright(C).Yusuke End\
oh, 2010")}";exit~;_ The Qlobe                  Copyright(C).Yusuke Endoh, 2010

After that, just run this script using:

while true; do clear; ruby a.rb | tee b.rb; sleep 0.2; mv -f b.rb a.rb; done

Hellо, I am a compiler

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I copied this little text from a comment on the Stackoverflow website. I really enjoyed it ;)

Hellо, I am a compiler.
I just scanned thousands of lines of code while you were reading this sentence. I browsed through millions of possibilities of optimizing a single line of yours using hundreds of different optimization techniques based on a vast amount of academic research that you would spend years getting at. I won’t feel any embarrassment, not even a slight ick, when I convert a three-line loop to thousands of instructions just to make it faster. I have no shame to go to great lengths of optimization or to do the dirtiest tricks. And if you don’t want me to, maybe for a day or two, I’ll behave and do it the way you like. I can transform the methods I’m using whenever you want, without even changing a single line of your code. I can even show you how your code would look in assembly, on different processor architectures and different operating systems and in different assembly conventions if you’d like. Yes, all in seconds. Because, you know, I can; and you know, you can’t.

P.S. Oh, by the way you weren’t using half of the code you wrote. I did you a favor and threw it away.

A simple way to deploy your Rails applications

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Sometimes I prefer to use a simpler way to deploy my Rails applications instead to install and configure any tool (e.g.: capistrano).

A very simple way to do this is to create a shell script within the /script directory, that will access the server via SHH:

#! /bin/bash
# script/deploy.sh

TAG=deploy_$(date +"%F_%Hh%M")
git tag -m '' -a $TAG
git push --tags

ssh user@your_domain.com << 'SSH'
  cd /var/rails_apps/my_app
  rm -rf public/assets
  git pull
  bundle install --without development test
  bundle exec rake db:migrate db:seed assets:clean assets:precompile
  touch tmp/restart.txt
  git describe > public/version.txt
SSH

After that, a tag is created in the git repository. This way you know exactly the date and time the deployment was performed.

And you can find out which version (tag from git) is in production accessing the URL your_domain.com/version.txt.

your_domain

Update on March 8, 2013:

I created another script which accepts the -q param (quick).
https://gist.github.com/lucascaton/5118852

How to test ElasticSearch in a Rails application

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Since I started using ElasticSearch in my Rails applications, I had a problem to create separate indexes for the automated tests.

The problem is: there is no way to create more than one database in ElasticSearch. You can create different indexes, but no different databases. But creating indexes with different names doesn’t solve the problem: it’s necessary to configure our Rails models in order to work with a different index name when the tests is running.

I’m using the tire and RSpec gems and in this post, I’ll explain how to separate indexes for development and test environments.

First of all, I’ve included the code below in file config/initializers/tire.rb:

if Rails.env.test?
  prefix = "#{Rails.application.class.parent_name.downcase}_#{Rails.env.to_s.downcase}_"
  Tire::Model::Search.index_prefix(prefix)
end

And I set manually the index name in the model (assuming that there is a Movie model):

index_name "#{Tire::Model::Search.index_prefix}movies"

Done! After that, when your application is running in development environment, the name of indexes will be “movies”. But if it’s in the test environment, the name of indexes will be “appname_test_movies” and then the tire gem and your models can perform the search with different indexes!

Deleting test indexes

In order to delete the test indexes after the suite has finished running, just add the following code to file spec/integration_helper.rb (or similar):

RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.after(:all, type: :request) { delete_movie_index }
end

And create a custom macro, which will delete the indexes:

def delete_movie_index
  Movie.index.delete
end

Demo app

I created a small application to demonstrate the technique explained in this post:
https://github.com/lucascaton/elasticsearch_app_example

I hope this has been helpful!