Sometimes you may want to print files from the command line, especially when you have lots of them. You can use lp for that. To print a single example.pdf file...
...on your default printer, simply say: lp example.pdf lp accepts multiple filenames, so to print all PDF files in the current directory: lp *.pdf You can specify a printer via...
The sprintf method has a reference by name format option: sprintf("% d : % f", { :foo => 1, :bar => 2 }) # => 1 : 2.000000 sprintf("%{foo}f", { :foo => 1 }) # => "1f" The format identifier % stands for...
...this example we are using %s identifier to replace strings. class Fetcher FIND_URI = 'https://someapi.com/3/search/record?query=% s&include_many=% s&language=en-US&page=1' # some public methods
Chromedriver (or selenium-webdriver?) will not reliably scroll elements into view before clicking them, and actually not click the element because of that. We've seen this happen for elements...
...a 40px button). Our assumption is that the element is considered visible (i.e. Capybara::Selenium::ChromeNode#visible? returns true for such elements) but the Selenium driver wants to actually click...
jQuery's deferred objects behave somewhat like standard promises, but not really. One of many subtle differences is that there are two ways to chain callbacks to an async functions...
...is done, which only exists in jQuery: $.ajax('/foo').done(function(html) { console.debug("The server responded with %s", html); }); There is also then, which all promise libraries have:
You can say: $(element).is(':visible') and $(element).is(':hidden') jQuery considers an element to be visible if it consumes space in the document. For most purposes, this is...
Emulate jQuery's implementation : element.offsetWidth > 0 && element.offsetHeight > 0; jQuery > 3 Query 3 slightly modifies the meaning of :visible (and therefore of :hidden). Emulate jQuery's implementation: !(window.getComputedStyle(element...
...open a dialog with the route to your dialog's view. tinymce.init({ // ... toolbar: 'myCustomButton', setup: function(editor) { editor.ui.registry.addButton('myCustom Button', { icon: 'document-properties', tooltip: 'Further describe your button here', onAction...
...insertContent', content: linkTag, }); window.parent.postMessage({ mceAction: 'insertContent', content: ' ', }) window.parent.postMessage({ mceAction: 'close' }); }) function buildLinkTag(form) { // do stuff } }) See here for more commands...
See the attached link for a useful overview of modern (and classic) DOM API methods, like matches, contains, append, cssText, etc. You will still need to look up some documentation...
...e.g. on how to modify a ClassList, but it's still better than browsing interfaces and superclasses of Element on MDN without knowing what to look for. When coming from...
You have an async function that rejects: async function failingFunction() { throw new Error("Something went wrong") } When you call that function in a test, your test will fail:
}) The failure message will look like this: Unhandled promise rejection: Error: Something went wrong You can fix this by expecting the state of the returned promise:
Similar to the Webpack Bundle Analyzer, Chrome's new Lighthouse feature … … shows a visualisation of your JavaScript bundles. It's compatible with sourcemaps and is great for understanding large JavaScript...
...in development. It also works on production code, where its usefulness depends on the structure of the productive Javascript code. Warning This will only work when your bundler emits source...
jQuery's removeClass removes the given class string from an element collection. If you want to remove multiple/unknown classes matching a given pattern, you can do that. For example, consider...
...node for the following HTML. We'll reference it by $element below. Option A: Selecting classes, then removing them You can iterate over existing classes, and select matching ones. The...
...what git checkout and git reset do. Git basics A commit holds a certain state of...
...a directory and a pointer to its antecedent commit. A commit is identified by a so-called ref looking something like 7153617ff70e716e229a823cdd205ebb13fa314d. HEAD is a pointer that is always pointing...
In a nutshell: return statements inside blocks cause a method's return value to change. This is by design (and probably not even new to you, see below) -- but can...
...a problem, for example for the capture method of Rails. Consider these methods: def stuff puts 'yielding...' yield puts 'yielded.' true end We can call our stuff method with a...
In CI test runs I noticed that string sorting order changed after switching from a debian-based PostgreSQL docker image to one that is based on Alpine Linux.
...sorting: bar Bar foo Foo Alpine image sorting: Bar Foo bar foo Explanation Alpine Linux is a very slim linux distribution that results in small docker image sizes (roughly 100MB...
...into your Webpack's assets folder or write an npm package with an own sass file that can be imported from the Webpack manifest. Load fonts from your assets folder...
...The first option turns out to be straightforward: Import the stylesheets in the index.js of the pack you're using: // webpack_source_path/application/index.js import './stylesheets/reset' import './stylesheets/main' // loads the fonts...
The closest is probably Nimbus Sans L, which is released under the GPL, AFPL, LPPL licenses. However, I couldn't find a way to convert Nimbus Sans L into a...
I finally settled with Liberation Sans, which is awesome for some reasons: Although it's available for free, it's a high quality font because its creation was...
...has its weak points, but I want to point out that it has clear strengths, too. Pro Simple and beautiful interface. Outstandingly organized source code. Have never seen a JS...
...toolbar buttons, pass various callbacks, etc. Features a collection of great plugins. Easily extendable by self-made plugins. It is really simple to write one – see example below.
Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version the change was released. This might be the case for...
Git can help you to find the next git tag that was set in the branch. This usually has the name of the version in it (as the...
Web forms can be made much more usable with a few HTML attributes. Short summary: type: Tells browsers about the input data type. Mobile browsers will select a virtual keyboard...
...based on this value. Some browsers will add simple validation, e.g. for type email. inputmode: Direct hint about the virtual keyboard to use. Inferred from type, but can be very...
If you're on Ruby 2.3+ there's a <<~ operator to automatically unindent HEREDOCs: str = <<~MESSAGE Hello Universe! This is me. Bye! MESSAGE If you have an older Ruby, you...
...can use the String#strip_heredoc method from ActiveSupport. See Summarizing heredoc in ruby and rails for an example. Technically, it looks for the least indented line in the whole...
...you want to clean up this code with the modularity gem, you might try something like this: class Foo does 'bar' end module BarTrait as_trait do class Bar
...you would have to change all references accordingly, which is quite unpleasant. You can solve it like that: module BarTrait as_trait do class self::Bar end end end
When you are using the #selector_for helper in Cucumber steps, as e.g. Spreewald does, the following snippet will save you typing. It recognizes a prose BEM-style selector and...
...maps it to the corresponding BEM class. For a variation on this idea, see An auto-mapper for ARIA labels and BEM classes in Cucumber selectors. Examples "the main menu...
...file download links in an end-to-end test can be painful, especially with Selenium. The attached download_helpers.rb provides a download_link method for your Capybara tests. It returns a...
details[:disposition] # => 'attachment' or 'inline' details[:filename] # => 'report.txt' details[:text] # => file content as string details[:content_type] # => 'text/plain' Features Compared to other approaches this helper has many useful features...
...flaky tests. You should always try to fix those instead of rerunning them regularly. Setup Configure RSpec to persist the result of your test runs to a file. This is...
...necessary to be able to rerun examples. Add this to your spec/spec_helper.rb : config.example_status_persistence_file_path = 'spec/examples.txt' Rerun all failed examples using --only-failures bundle exec rspec --only-failures...
...lot less than you think. "private" does not apply to class methods defined on self This does not make anything private: class Foo private def self.foo 'foo' end end
...need to use private_class_method instead: class Foo def self.foo 'foo' end private_class_method :foo end "private" does not apply to define_method This does not make anything...