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Hammer.js - Easily add multi-touch to your websites
With the continued growth of mobile devices, handling touch (and multi-touch) events is no longer optional. Hammer.js is a small - dependency free - library that makes handling touch events dead simple. You can easily add tap (touch/click), double tap, hold, drag (touchmove/mousemove), swipe, and transform (pinch) events to your website with very little code. Oh, and if jQuery is your thing, they have a simple plugin that you can download as well.
var hammer = new Hammer(document.getElementById("hammertime")); hammer.ondoubletap = function(e){ console.log("CAN touch this!"); };
giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Use Factory Girl's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite
Want to speed up your test suite? Reduce the number of objects persisted to the database. With Factory Girl, this is really easy; instead of using
build or create to instantiate your models with data, use build_stubbed!build_stubbed is the younger, more hip sibling to build; it…
Redis-faina - query analyzer for Redis
From folks that know something about scale, the Instagram team has realeased Redis-faina, a tool that parses Redis’ Check out the source on GitHub. If you’re new to Redis, Episode 0.4.5 with @antirez is a classic.MONITOR command to provide stats on Redis queries:# reading from stdin
redis-cli -p 6490 MONITOR | head -n <NUMBER OF LINES TO ANALYZE> | ./redis-faina.py
Overall Stats
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Lines Processed 117773
Commands/Sec 11483.44
Top Prefixes
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friendlist 69945
followedbycounter 25419
followingcounter 10139
recentcomments 3276
queued 7
Top Keys
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friendlist:zzz:1:2 534
followingcount:zzz 227
friendlist:zxz:1:2 167
friendlist:xzz:1:2 165
friendlist:yzz:1:2 160
friendlist:gzz:1:2 160
friendlist:zdz:1:2 160
friendlist:zpz:1:2 156
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Sextant - view your Rails routes without waiting on Rake
When given the option, I’ll always opt for text mode when completing a task. In Rails that usually means Rake. There’s a point in most Rails apps, however, when the time to boot Rails just to Since your web server is presumably already booted, there’s no startup tax to see your routes. Check out Richard’s blog post or the source on GitHub for more.rake -T is painful. So when Richard Schneeman got tired of waiting on Rails to run rake routes, he created Sextant, a gem that lists your routes in development mode right in your browser.
