Chad Jolly cjolly

When running specs I often see this output before the specs start to run.

> rspec spec
Time: 0.288 ms
Time: 0.110 ms
Time: 0.084 ms
Time: 0.095 ms
Time: 0.105 ms
Time: 0.115 ms

Legacy Data

When dealing with legacy data it's been pretty common to run into malformed / illegal byte sequences in files. Figuring out what's causing the issue is often really difficult, especially when the file has thousands of rows.

Here's a trick I pretty much stumpbled upon:

nl file.txt | sort

sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.

Stop Versioning Rails Secret Tokens

After reading Code Climate's Rails' Insecure Defaults I realized I was guilty of breaking rule 3. Versioned Secret Tokens. Here's how I fixed it.

Use dotenv in development and test environments:

# Gemfile
gem 'dotenv-rails', groups: [:development, :test]

>> ps.cancel_at
=> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 UTC +00:00
>> ps.cancel_at.class
=> ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone
>> ps.cancel_at = DateTime.new 2012, 11, 05
=> Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000
>> ps.save
   (0.2ms)  BEGIN
 Entity Load (0.5ms) SELECT "entities".* FROM "entities" WHERE "entities"."id" = 2485 LIMIT 1

	<html>
	<body>
	<a href="http://www.mysite.com/">Home</a><!-- Why?! -->
	<a href="/">Home</a><!-- How is this not the default?! -->
	</body>
	</html>

	##
	# A Ruby HTTP Client Library
	# https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty
	require 'httparty'

	##
	# "Getting Started" ServeManager API Client
	#
	# Our API is accessible from any language, of course. Hopefully a concrete
	# working code example helps you get the basics built in the language of your

	#= require support/jasmine-given

	class Geolocation
	getCurrentPosition: ->
	options =
	maximumAge: 0
	timeout: 1101000
	enableHighAccuracy: true

	navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(@success, @failure, options)

	# file: /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
	# sudo raspi-config # Enable Boot To Desktop

	# idea via: http://lokir.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/raspberry-pi-kiosk-mode-with-chromium/

	@lxpanel --profile LXDE
	@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE
	# @xscreensaver -no-splash

	@xset s off

	1.9.3-p327 → rspec spec/requests/
	WARNING: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.8.0, but has dynamically loaded 2.7.8
	Rack::File headers parameter replaces cache_control after Rack 1.5.
	...^CF^C
	An error occurred in an after hook
	Errno::EPIPE: Broken pipe
	occurred at /Users/cjolly/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p327/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/poltergeist-1.0.2/lib/capybara/poltergeist/web_socket_server.rb:144:in `write'

	F
	An error occurred in an after hook

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