Christian Frichot xntrik

xntrik / gist:1021373

Created June 12, 2011 09:21

Clear trash smartly

find . -type f -atime +60 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

xntrik / gist:1088638

Created July 18, 2011 05:53

getting rid of pesky carat Ms or ^M characters in vim even after a dos2unix conversion.

	:g/^M/s///g

	BUT, you can't just write <Shift>+6 for the ^ character, you need to hold down <Ctrl>+VM (or <Ctrl>V <Ctrl>M).

xntrik / gist:1088752

Created July 18, 2011 07:15

ruby regexps explained for dumb asses

http://strugglingwithruby.blogspot.com/2009/05/regular-expressions-in-ruby.html

xntrik / gist:1106534

Created July 26, 2011 11:29

diffing two folders and sub folders

diff -rq dirA dirB

xntrik / gist:1110985

Created July 28, 2011 04:52

change ya MAC in OS X .. god I'm so lazy

sudo ifconfig en1 ether 00:e2:e3:e4:e5:e6

xntrik / gist:1126986

Created August 5, 2011 05:57

ruby string to datetime formatting strings

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Time.html#M000392

xntrik / gist:1155950

Created August 19, 2011 03:20

rake aborting

	If you're using rvm and multiple rubies and rails etc and rake borks on you.

	Execute it with "bundle"

	ie. bundle exec rake -T
	or
	bundle exec rake db:create

	from: http://house9.blogspot.com/2011/06/rails-31-and-ruby-192-p180-rake-aborted.html

xntrik / gist:1333024

Created November 2, 2011 06:19

supress crazy irb output

by putting ;nil on the end.

xntrik / gist:1359842

Created November 12, 2011 01:11

Smarter ruby method overloading using alias_method

	http://www.leonardoborges.com/writings/2008/08/07/why-i-like-ruby-1-alias_method/

	module ActiveRecord
	class Base
	alias_method :find_with_ferret_original, :find_with_ferret

	def find_with_ferret(q, options = {}, find_options = {})
	remove_diatrictics!(q)
	find_with_ferret_original(q, options, find_options)
	end

xntrik / gist:1378522

Created November 19, 2011 06:18

Metasploit on git, C Perez' article on PDC

http://pauldotcom.com/2011/11/metasploit-changes-to-git.html