Rails Rescue Handbook, an ebook by Mike Gunderloy
How to rescue a project without losing your mind.
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Get Moving With Angular 1.2 Animation and Animate.css
Motion is quickly becoming one of the most important emerging techniques in building a quality user experience on the web. Angular 1.2, currently in release candidate form, provides an overhaul of Angular's animation system and makes it spectacu...
Vortrag: Elasticsearch Grundlagen und Rails-Integration mit searchkick
Was ist Elastic?
- Suchmaschine, basierend auf Apache Lucene
- größtenteils Open-Source
- einige kommerzielle Features ("Elastic Stack", früher "X-Pack")
- Zugriffsrechte (bis vor kurzen)
- Monitoring
- Reporting
- Graph-Unterstützung...
Speed up file downloads with Rails, Apache and X-Sendfile
When you use the send_file method to send a local file to the browser, you can save resources on the application server by setting the :x_sendfile option to true. This option i...
It's an HTTParty and Everyone Is Invited! // RailsTips by John Nunemaker
Awesome library to consume web services in Ruby.
Angular: Quick and easy animation on changed binding value
With ngAnimate, you can easily animate certain events (see directive support). We'll make use of ngClass animations to style an element on changed binding value.
Say we have a slider and ...
Rails: Rest API post-mortem analysis
This is a personal post-mortem analysis of a project that was mainly build to provide a REST API to mobile clients.
For the API backend we used the following components:
- Active Model Serializer (AMS) to serializer our Active Record models to J...
Soft-scroll to an anchor with jQuery
This snippet makes links that refer to an anchor (like "<a href="#something">...</a>") scroll softly to it.\
In this example we only do it for links that also own a data-animate attribute.
$('a[href^="#"][data-animate]').live('click', fu...
How to create giant memory leaks in AngularJS (and other client-side JavaScript)
This guide shows how to create an AngularJS application that consumes more and more memory until, eventually, the browser process crashes on your users.
Although this guide has been written for Angular 1 originally, most of the advice is relevant...
Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:
gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara
...
Find an ActiveRecord by any column (useful for Cucumber steps)
The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column:
User.find_by_anything('carla')
User.find_by_anything('email@domain.de')
User.find_by_anything(10023)
There's also a bang variant that raises `ActiveRecord...