Git Cheatsheet
Make sure you understand differences between git's areas (such as stash, workspace, upstream, etc.) and what commands affect which areas.
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Differences between transactions and locking
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The TCF 2.0 (Tranparency and Consent Framework) standard, and what you should know about it
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a European marketing association which has introduced a standard how advertising can be served to users in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This standard ...
How to make changes to a Ruby gem (as a Rails developer)
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)
Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...
Difference between class_inheritable_attribute and class_attribute | martinciu's dev blog
How to make class_attribute behave like class_inheritable_attribte which no longer exists in Rails.
How to: Use git bisect to find bugs and regressions
Git allows you to do a binary search across commits to hunt down the commit that introduced a bug.
Given you are currently on your branch's HEAD that is not working as expected, an example workflow could be:
git bisect start # Start bisectin...
Intridea Blog: REST isn't what you think it is, and that's OK
Pretty much everyone who claims to have a REST API, in fact, does not. The closest I’ve found is the Sun Cloud API which actually defines a number of custom media types for resources and is discoverable based on a single known end-point. Everyone ...
The Difference Between jQuery’s .bind(), .live(), and .delegate()
The difference between .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() is not always apparent. Having a clear understanding of all the differences, though, will help us write more concise code and prevent bugs from popping up in our interactive applications.
Automated "git bisect" will make your day
So you're hunting down a regression (or just a bug) and want to use git bisect to find out when it was introduced? Smart kid.
If you have a shell comma...
How to make your git aliases work with both master and main
The linked article found a simple way to rewrite legacy git aliases to make them work with differently named default branches
- Step 1: Decide which is the most common default bran...
Git commands to discard local changes
Use case
You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.
Context
Now there are several options to discard these depending on your exact situation.
The headlines will differentiate the c...