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                    posted 16 years ago by beandr
            Code for a Rake task that allows compiles all LESS stylesheets (.less) contained within a single directory.
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by brettbergeron
            Probably not the most elegant solution, but it works. Needed this for a capistrano deploy task which shows the most recent tagged releases in my repository. Very bare bones, and needs tweaking if your versions are not in X.X.X.X format.
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by bananastalktome
            For moving from older gem to newest if  ' sudo gem update --system ' doesn't work
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by inkdeep
            Creating a object that doesn't have any methods in Ruby (regular objects inherit methods from Object class), useful for Proxies that use method missing (http://onestepback.org/index.cgi/Tech/Ruby/BlankSlate.rdoc).
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by narkisr
            An example of redo statement in Ruby, redo makes an iteration step repeat itself again (http://www.rubyrailways.com/rubys-most-underused-keyword/).
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by narkisr
            I had a directory tree with around 4000 pdf files and I needed a page count - so I semi-rolled this. I swiped the counter code from the gem README:
http://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/tree/master
It could be more contained - as is I run it from irb:...
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by inkdeep
            Rake task - Copies files from one directory to another in a batch of 50 files, giving 15 seconds break between each batch.
        
        
        
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                    posted 16 years ago by cnicolaou
            
