my christmas appeal

merry christmas everybody

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app/controllers/application.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
 
   # See ActionController::RequestForgeryProtection for details
   # Uncomment the :secret if you're not using the cookie session store
-  protect_from_forgery # :secret => 'ec6887d994046a0f3b66314a7ed3d91a'
+  # protect_from_forgery # :secret => 'ec6887d994046a0f3b66314a7ed3d91a'
 
   # See ActionController::Base for details 
   # Uncomment this to filter the contents of submitted sensitive data parameters

app/views/page/appeal.html.erb

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+<div class="span-7">
+  <center>
+  <img src="/images/chaconbig.png"/>
+  <br/>
+  <br/>
+  <h3>Donate to Git Now!</h3>
+
+  <script type="text/javascript">
+  function validateAmount(amount){
+          if(amount.value.match( /^[0-9]+(\.([0-9]+))?$/)){
+                  return true;
+          }else{
+                  alert('You must enter a valid donation.');
+                  amount.focus();
+                  return false;
+          }
+  }
+  </script>
+  <form action="https://checkout.google.com/cws/v2/Donations/622836985124940/checkoutForm" id="BB_BuyButtonForm" method="post" name="BB_BuyButtonForm" onSubmit="return validateAmount(this.item_price_1)" target="_top">
+      <input name="item_name_1" type="hidden" value="Git Donation via Software Freedom Conservancy"/>
+      <input name="item_description_1" type="hidden" value="Donation to the Git Project via the Software Freedom Conservancy."/>
+      <input name="item_quantity_1" type="hidden" value="1"/>
+      <input name="item_currency_1" type="hidden" value="USD"/>
+      <input name="item_is_modifiable_1" type="hidden" value="true"/>
+      <input name="item_min_price_1" type="hidden" value="5.0"/>
+      <input name="item_max_price_1" type="hidden" value="25000.0"/>
+      <input name="_charset_" type="hidden" value="utf-8"/>
+      <table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="1%">
+          <tr>
+              <td align="right" nowrap="nowrap" width="1%">&#x24; <input id="item_price_1" name="item_price_1" onfocus="this.style.color='black'; this.value='';" size="11" style="color:grey;" type="text" value="Enter Amount"/>
+              </td>
+              <td align="left" width="1%">
+                  <input alt="Donate" src="https://checkout.google.com/buttons/donateNow.gif?merchant_id=622836985124940&amp;w=115&amp;h=50&amp;style=white&amp;variant=text&amp;loc=en_US" type="image"/>
+              </td>
+          </tr>
+      </table>
+    </form>
+
+    <p>A temple for the mind, people.</p>
+  </center>
+</div>
+
+<div class="span-14 last">
+  <h3 class="title">From git-scm.com Maintainer Scott Chacon</h3>
+  <p>If everyone reading this donated a hundred and twelve dollars, our annual fundraiser would be over in just a few months.
+  Not everyone can or will donate. And that’s fine, because each year just enough people support git-scm.com with a small donation. If you feel it's your turn, and you know it is, please make a small donation of $112, $227, $305 or whatever you can to keep git-scm.com free.</p>
+
+  <p>Most people don't know this, but I'm a volunteer. A classy, classy volunteer.</p>
+
+  <p>I don't get paid a cent for my work at git-scm.com, and neither do the thousands of Git project developers. The hosting of this incredibly high-traffic site costs in the millions of dollars a year.  Recently, I have been approached by Oracle to buy the site and all the IP associated with it. They've promised me that they'll hold it benevolently.</p>
+
+  <p>Commerce is fine. Oracle may or may not be evil. But it doesn't belong here. Not in git-scm.com.</p>
+
+  <p>git-scm.com is something special. It is like a library, a public park or an extremely high-end brothel. It is like a temple for the mind. <strong>A <em>temple for the mind</em>, people.</strong> It is a place we can all go to think, to learn, to share our distributed code with others. It is a unique human project, the first<em>-ish</em> of its kind in history. It is a humanitarian project to bring a free distributed source code version control system to every single person on the planet. Twice.</p>
+
+  <p>Every single person.</p>
+
+  <p>Twice.</p>
+
+  <p>We're a small organization, and I've worked hard over the years to keep us lean and tight. Especially in the abdominals.</p>
+
+  <p>To do this without resorting to advertising, we need you. It is you who keep this dream alive. It is you who have created git-scm.com. It is you who believe that a place of calm reflection, distributed source control and learning is worth having.</p>
+
+  <p>This year, please consider making a donation to protect and sustain git-scm.com and the Git project.</p>
+
+  <p>Thanks,<br/>
+  Scott "Dragon" Chacon<br/>
+  git-scm.com Maintainer</p>
+
+  <div class="humourless">
+    This page is <a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA032/en/US">a parody</a>. Donations made will actually go to the <a href="/sfc">Git project</a> under the <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2010/dec/16/git-joins/">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>.
+  </div>
+</div>

app/views/page/index.html.erb

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+<div class="span-21 appeal">
+  <table>
+    <tr><td> 
+        <img height="80px" src="images/chacon.png"/>
+    </td><td>
+      <form method="POST" action="/appeal">
+        Please read: An urgent appeal from git-scm.com maintainer Scott Chacon
+        <input type="submit" value="Read Now"/>
+      </form>
+    </td></tr>
+  </table>
+</div>
+
+<br style="clear:both;" />
+<br style="clear:both;" />
+
 <div class="span-9">
   <div id="git-is">
     <h3>Git is...</h3>

config/routes.rb

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     page.about 'download', :action => 'download'
     page.about 'tools', :action => 'tools'
     page.about 'sfc', :action => 'sfc'
+    page.about 'appeal', :action => 'appeal'
   end
 
   map.with_options :controller => 'course' do |page|

public/stylesheets/style.css

@@ -99,3 +99,20 @@ table.videos td { width:25%;}
 #sfc-footer a {
   color: #350;
 }
+.appeal { 
+  border: 2px solid #350;
+  background: #eee;
+  color: #350;
+  font-size: 30px;
+  font-weight: bold;
+  max-height: 95px;
+  margin-bottom: 30px;
+}
+.humourless {
+  font-size: 10px;
+  background: #eee;
+  color: #777;
+}
+.humourless a {
+  color: #555;
+}