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Destructuring Dictionaries in Python
Here is a quick and dirty way to destructure dictionaries in [Python] d = {'a':'Apple', 'b':'Banana','c':'Carrot'} a,b,c = [d[k] for k in ('a', 'b','c')] a == 'Apple' b == 'Banana' c == 'Carrot'
Written by Sean Behan on 03/04/2017
How To Pipe To A Ruby Command Line Application
You need to read from STDIN rather than parse command line arguments. while $stdin.gets puts $_ end
Written by Sean Behan on 10/17/2013
How To Use Rake to Run Your Test Suite with Sinatra
If you're using Sinatra and you want to use rake to run your test suite, you will need to create a Rakefile and put this in it. require 'rake/testtask' task :default do ENV['RACK_ENV'] = 'test' Rake::Task['test'].invoke end Rake::Test...
Written by Sean Behan on 08/22/2013
Uncompress A Bz2 File Using Tar Command
Uncompress a bz2 file using tar command tar --use-compress-program bzip2 -xvf your-file-to-uncompress.tar.bz2 @source http://www.kde.gr.jp/help/doc/kdebase/doc/khelpcenter/faq/HTML/bzip2.html...
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012
Cool Conditional Syntax in Ruby (on Rails)
Ruby is beautiful @posts = if true Post.all else [] end Simply elegant!
Written by Sean Behan on 06/17/2012