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Cancelling the ActiveRecord callback chain
What | Rails version | Within before_*
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Within after_*
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Cancel later callbacks | Rails 1-4 | `re... |
JavaScript: How to query the state of a Promise
Native promises have no methods to inspect their state.
You can use the promiseState
function below to check whether a promise is fulfilled, rejected or still pendi...
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...
Change the name of your Ubuntu machine
In order to rename your Ubuntu box, replace all occurences of the the old name in the following two files:
/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
After a reboot your hostname is changed. If you don't want to reboot your Ubuntu box you have to execute ...
How to reverse the order of HTML elements with CSS
Imagine you have a list you want to render inline on large screens, but stacked on small screens.
<ul>
<li>high</li>
<li>medium</li>
<li>low</li>
</ul>
ul { white-space: nowrap } /* optional: keep items in one line no matter th...
Security issues with hash conditions in Rails 2 and Rails 3
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']
) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }
). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security implications in some versions of Ru...
The State of Ruby 3 Typing | Square Corner Blog
We're pleased to announce Ruby 3’s new language for type signatures, RBS. One of the long-stated goals for Ruby 3 has been to add type checking tooling. After much discussion with Matz and the Ruby committer team, we decided to take the incremen...
How to change the order of nested forms being rendered (especially blank forms)
Generally for nested forms, a blank form is placed below all other existing object forms. If you would like to change the position of the...
The Current State of Telephone Links | CSS-Tricks
The linked article shows what current browsers do when you click a link like this:
<a href="tel:1-562-867-5309">1-562-867-5309</a>
Spoiler: The current state is sad
It's...
Agile Ajax » ActionMailer Callbacks: In the Spirit of ActionController Filters » Pathfinder Development
A while back, I had a requirement to persist a record of which email addresses were sent an email through the system. I expected to find callback support for ActionMailer, but was surprised to find that it didn't exist.