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Dear Colleagues,

After much reflection, I’ve made the difficult decision to leave GitHub, with my last day being October 29, 2024.

My time here has been nothing short of transformative. The one constant through all the highs and lows has been the incredible people I’ve had the privilege to work with. You have consistently shown courage in speaking up, advocating for what’s right, and putting out extraordinary work. I’ve grown more here over the last five years than in any other position, thanks in no small part to the collaboration, mentorship, and friendship you’ve all offered me.

I’ll miss our shared problem-solving, the inside jokes, and, of course, our collective drive to make great things happen. I hope we keep in touch and that our paths cross again.

Thank you all so much. It has truly been an honor and a priveledge to call you my calleagues. I wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

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Implenting a Slack WebSocket Client in Ruby using the async-websockets Gem

See https://api.slack.com/apis/socket-mode#implementing for more info about implementing a custom websocket client for Slack.

A previous version of this was posted to https://gist.github.com/chrisbloom7/52bc954b4df09b9cb829a73cfd5466c0, but that version no longer works with newer versions of the async-websockets gem. (It also wasn't easily testable.)

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# frozen_string_literal: true

# Basic implementation of a websocket connector for Slack using the slack-ruby-client gem
# 
# Run this rake task in a virtual container that is set to automatically restart on failure; this
# will help deal with disconnects from Slack since socket URLs are temporary.
# https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/socket-implement#disconnect
#
# This rake task can be called in multiple virtual containers to help with resilliancy and rolling restarts
# https://api.slack.com/apis/connections/socket-implement#connections

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I've found a bug that is specific to the following scenario:

• Using MySQL
• Using a longblob column type
• Using a serialized attribute
• Using paper_trail gem
• Serialized field contains unicode character

Under those conditions, after saving changes to the serialized field, record#changed? still reports true, and record#changes contains an entry for the serialized field where both the before and after elements are identical. Calling record#reload clears the changes and loads the record with the changed value. If paper_trail is removed from the scenario, the ActiveModel attribute mutation tracking works as expected.

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class MySingletonClass
  include Singleton

  attr_reader :client

  def initialize
    @client = Service::We::Only::Ever::Need::One::Connection::To.new(SERVICE_URL)
  end
end

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
)

var a1 = [3]int{1, 2, 3}
var s1 = a1[0:3]

func main() {

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# A prime is a natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers
def prime?(int)
  # A prime is a natural number greater than 1...
  return false if int < 2

  # Is _int_ evenly divisible by any number 2 -> int-1?
  (2..(int - 1)).each do |divisor|
    return false if int % divisor == 0
  end
  return true

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Doubly Linked List implementation in Ruby

Setup

• Install Ruby ~> 2.6
• gem install rspec
• Open an IRB session with irb -r ./linked_list.rb

list = LinkedList.new

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A ruby module to assist in capturing stdout/stderr from a detached thread in jRuby

1. create some temp files (but not Tempfiles since they would be GC'd too quickly)
2. append standard file descriptor redirects to the commands that we'll run in the detached spawned process, i.e. 1>>stdout_tempfile_path 2>>stderr_tempfile_path
3. tack on a final command that will trigger copying the files to S3 regardless of exit status of original commands, i.e. {original commands with io redirection &&'d together}; bundle exec rake cleanup_task
4. cleanup other io redirection temp files older than some threshold

Example usage: