Comments for Patrick Tulskie

Comment on libxml-ruby vs nokogiri vs hpricot by Patrick Tulskie

Patrick Tulskie — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:09:41 +0000

No problem. Glad you found it useful.

Comment on Code Highlighting by Patrick Tulskie

Patrick Tulskie — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:09:04 +0000

Yep. Could do that too. Probably should do that, in the spirit of social coding.

Comment on Code Highlighting by Jason Amster

Jason Amster — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:05:37 +0000

Uh, why not just use embed a Gist. e.g. http://blog.jayamster.com/a-little-snippit-to-tell-if-its-unix-time-1234567890/2009/02/13

Comment on WebbyNode, Nginx, and Percona MySQL by Patrick Tulskie

Patrick Tulskie — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:22:27 +0000

I’m not using it yet, but I will be. I’ve heard it handles load relatively well, but I don’t anticipate anything I’m going to be using it for to be under any heavy load.

Comment on WebbyNode, Nginx, and Percona MySQL by Travis

Travis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:24:31 +0000

Are you actively using Unicorn? I’ve heard some mixed things about it and how well it performs under a load.

Comment on Ruby String#Nameize Revised by Patrick Tulskie

Patrick Tulskie — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:42:39 +0000

Thanks for that raggi. Great set of tweaks. Yeah I’ve come to learn a great deal since I originally wrote this dirty code. Case has been one of those things I’ve stopped abusing such as you saw before. I’m glad that people are still finding this useful and improving upon it. As you’ll probably notice, I’ve stopped writing on my blog as much and have been reading through the code of others’ as of late.

Comment on Ruby String#Nameize Revised by raggi

raggi — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:14:05 +0000

I can see where you’re trying to apply “performance optimizations” but they’re introducing bugs, that you don’t seem to have benchmark, profile, or test coverage for.

You don’t need gsub with a regex of /^ … /

You could do the entire sub line operation in a single sub, and probably should do. Sub isn’t delete, afterall. Oh, and the two sub cases are equivalent, with a different first group.

Stop using String#match without utilising the match data, and for that matter, use case properly, rather than this new way you’ve learned.

Oh screw it… here comes codes…

class String SPACE = ' ' APOS = "'"

# Extension of the string class to properly handle camel names def nameize case self when / / # If the name has a space in it, we gotta run the parts through the nameizer. split(SPACE).each { |part| part.nameize! }.join(SPACE) when /^[A-Z]/ # If they took the time to capitalize their name then let's just jump out. self when /^(mac|mc)(\w)(.*)$/i "#{$1.capitalize}#{$2.capitalize}#{$3}" when /^o\'/i split(APOS).each{ |piece| piece.capitalize! }.join(APOS) else capitalize # Basically if the name is a first name or it's not Irish then capitalize it. end end def nameize! replace nameize # BANG! end end

require 'rubygems' require 'minitest/unit' include MiniTest::Assertions assert_equal("Martin O'Donald", "martin o'donald".nameize) assert_equal("Randy McFarley", "Randy mcfarley".nameize) assert_equal("Sue MacDonald", "sue macdonald".nameize)

Have fun, and play safe.

Comment on Ruby String#Nameize Revised by Brookr

Brookr — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:46:23 +0000

Thanks for sharing this, just what I needed!

Comment on libxml-ruby vs nokogiri vs hpricot by JamesD

JamesD — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:02:53 +0000

Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

Comment on Leopard and MySQL Gem by Nick Rudzwick

Nick Rudzwick — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:22:42 +0000

Dude, that is a keeper!

It took a little bit more to get mine working, with Patrick’s help!

1. make a bash_login file
2. stick this in it:

export PATH=”$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin”

3. save it
4. open a new terminal window
5. Lastly, type this in terminal:

ARCHFLAGS=”-arch i386″ sudo gem install mysql — –with-mysql-config