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Bundlemate, a TextMate bundle manager

Bundlemate is a little utility that I started work on a few months ago but didn’t really have a chance to finish. I’ve done a fair bit of work on it over the last week and have managed to push out an initial release. You can download it using RubyGems:

$ sudo gem install bundlemate

If it isn’t showing up because Rubyforge’s gem cache hasn’t updated, you can grab it directly from my new personal Rubyforge project page. Run bundlemate help for instructions.

“ I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sounds they make as they fly by.

— Douglas Adams

» Startups Awards: we won!

Reevoo has won the Startups Awards 2007 award in the “Best use of Technology”.

» The Mysterious Cities of Gold

Classic kids TV and probably the best cartoon to come out of the 80s, finally getting a UK DVD release. For those who don’t remember….

» Zappos, a company that cares

www.zappos.com

» Free Ruby on Rails book

SitePoint’s Rails book, “Build Your Own Ruby On Rails Web Applications” by Patrick Lenz, which I acted as technical reviewer for, is now available completely free of charge for the next 60 days.

Timeout on any Ruby method


require 'timeout'

class TimeoutProxy
  include Timeout
  
  def initialize(receiver, timeout_in_seconds)
    @receiver = receiver
    @timeout_in_seconds = timeout_in_seconds
  end
  
  def method_missing(method, *args, &block)
    timeout(@timeout_in_seconds) do
      @receiver.send(method, *args, &block)
    end
  end
end

class Object
  def with_timeout(timeout_in_seconds)
    TimeoutProxy.new(self, timeout_in_seconds)
  end
end

# EXAMPLE:
#  class Foo
#    def self.some_long_running_method
#      sleep 10; puts 'done';
#    end
#  end
#
#  # without timeout
#  Foo.some_long_running_method
#  #=> 'done'
#
#  # with timeout
#  Foo.with_timeout(3).long_running_method
#  #=> raises Timeout::Error

» Top 10 Reasons Why Java Sucks Ass...

…and why Java developers seem to lack a sense of humor (see comments).

Using pastie from the command line

I was having some problems with the Ruby and Curl scripts on Pastie so I hacked together a quick script of my own. It takes the text you want to paste from STDIN and sends it to pastie (run pastie -h for options) and if successful it prints the resulting pastie URL.

Its easy to chain common unix commands together with the pastie script - try this to send the contents of a file to pastie then open the resulting paste in your default browser (OSX/*nix):


$ cat ~/somefile.html | pastie -f html | xargs open