gazay/ids_please
Parses URLs of social networks to extract IDs or screen names.
It does not get confused by child routes: you may also pass URLs like a user's twitter photo stream and the gem will extract their twitter ID .
Note that it just parses URLs, and does nothing magic like looking up IDs when the URL contains only a screen name (e.g. the Instagram API requires you to send the user ID almost always while you at first only know their screen name).
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Implementing social media "like" buttons: Everything you never wanted to know
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Here are some things you should know about this.
0. Security considerations
Each "like" button is implemented by including a Javascript...
Generate a path or URL string from an array of route components
When using form_for you can give the form's target URL either as a string or an array:
form_for(admin_user_path(@user)) do ... end
# same as:
form_for([:admin, @user]) do ... end
Same for link_to:
link_to("Label", edit_admin_u...
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound errors allow you to query the :name and :id of the model that could not be found
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound errors provide quite meaningful error messages that can provide some insight on application details. Consider the following:
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound: Couldn't find Organisation::Membership with 'id'=12 [WHE...
Why you can't use timezone codes like "PST" or "BST" for Time objects
Rails' ActiveSupport::TimeWithZone objects have both a timezone code and offset, e.g. Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:00:00 CET +01:00. Ruby's stdlib TZInfo also has time zones, but with different identifiers.
Unfortunately, not all timezone codes can b...
Do not pass params directly into url_for or URL helpers
Rails' url_for is useful for generating routes from a Hash, but can lead to an [open redirect vulnerability](https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Unvalidated_Red...
IRB's multi-line autocomplete and how to disable it
Recent IRB versions include a multi-line autocomplete which may be helpful to novice users but can be distracting.
Cycling through options works by pressing the Tab key (as usual), and for some methods you also get some kind of documentation, tho...
RSpec: Running examples by name (or running a single shared example)
When an Rspec example fails, I usually investigate by running that example again using rspec <file:line>. However, this does not work with shared examples, since Rspec doesn't know in which context the shared example should be run.
But there is...
How to get the hostname of the current machine in Rails or a Ruby script
Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this:
>> Socket.gethostname
=> "happycat"
That should work right away for your Rails application. For plain Ruby, you first need to do:
requi...
MySQL: How to create columns like "bigint" or "longtext" in Rails migrations, and what :limit means for column migrations
Rails understands a :limit options when you create columns in a migration. Its meaning depends on the column type, and sometimes the supplied value.
[The documentation](http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/ConnectionAdapters/TableDefinition/co...
Guide to localizing a Rails application
Localizing a non-trivial application can be a huge undertaking. This card will give you an overview over the many components that are affected.
When you are asked to give an estimate for the effort involved, go through the list below and check wh...