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Rails Plugin Reloading with Passenger

I use passenger in development now. Having all of my applications ready to launch at any time makes it easier to test cross application integrations. One problem with passenger is that even in development mode, Rails plugins are cached from request to request. This means if you edit a plugin, you won’t see the changes …

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Daily Code Reading #16 – Flay#analyze

The third step in flay’s process is to run the s-expressions through the #analyze method. The Code 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 def analyze self.prune   self.hashes.each do |hash,nodes| identical[hash] = nodes[1..-1].all? { |n| n == nodes.first } masses[hash] = nodes.first.mass * nodes.size masses[hash] *= (nodes.size) if identical[hash] self.total += …

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Daily Code Reading #15 – Flay#process_sexp

Now I’m starting to get into the deep dark corners of flay. The #process_sexp method is the next step in the process. The Code 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 def process_sexp pt pt.deep_each do |node| next unless node.any? { |sub| Sexp === sub } next if node.mass < self.mass_threshold   self.hashes[node.structural_hash] << …

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