...version understands? Did you double-check your @font-face declarations with all the hacky syntax that is required? Compare them with other declarations you find on the web.
...same name? This usually leads to trouble, but there are workarounds. Do IE's security settings prevent the download of webfonts? (see below) IE Security Settings can prevent font download...
The benefit of the Rails asset pipeline is that it compiles your stylesheets and javascripts to a single file, respectively. However, the consequences are startling if you don't understand...
...all your asset libraries in the same folder, which quickly becomes confusing as your set of assets grows. To overcome this, we have two different solutions. Custom solution
Update: This is now documented on Edgeguides Ruby on Rails: If you set the :validate option to true, then associated objects will be validated whenever you save this...
...default, this is false: associated objects will not be validated when this object is saved. Setup # post.rb class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :attachment end # attachment.rb class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base...
This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker. Expect this upgrade to take a few days even the...
Cleanup Remove all gems you used for assets and the Asset Pipeline itself, e.g. sass-rails, uglifier, autoprefixer-rails, sprockets-rails, jquery-rails, bootstrap-sass and many more.
...really want to get their arguments processable as keyword arguments. Don't change the syntax, or you'll experience pain. Always call super inside of your overridden #initialize method. A...
...things happen in the ActiveRecord world. Just let them happen, otherwise kittens will die somewhere. You don't want that. Example class Item < ActiveType::Object def initialize(attributes) super
All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and browser restores, but is different per new tab/window (in contrast...
...to localStorage which is shared across all tabs). MDN says: The sessionStorage object is most useful for hanging on to temporary data that should be saved and restored if the...
For searching in large database tables we usually use PostgreSQL's fulltext search capabilities. While this works reasonably well for content primarily consisting of prose, it is not necessarily a...
...good solution for all use cases. The main issue is that it is only possible to search for prefixes of text tokens, which can potentially be unexpected for users.
...use heredoc to avoid endlessly long lines of code that nobody can read. Heredoc strings preserve linebreaks and can be used like this: def long_message puts(<<-EOT)
...a very long message... Sincerely, foobear EOT end <<-EOT will be somewhat of a placeholder: anything you write in the line after you used it will be its value until...
...s possible you get this "error" message: *** [err :: example.com] There are no Phusion Passenger-served applications running whose paths begin with '/var/www/example.com'. *** [err :: example.com] This is just because there were...
...no running passenger process for this application on the server which could be restarted. It's not a real error. The application process will start if the first request for...
When you want to filter records in a model where a string column roughly matches a given term, you can use PostgreSQL’s trigram similarity search. Writing a fuzzy query...
User.where("similarity(name, ?) > 0.3", "John") This finds all users where the name is similar to "John" with a similarity score above 0.3. You can tune the threshold:
This raises "Could not find first Keyword": describe Keyword do it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:text) } end Do this instead...
If you want to build a small CLI application, that supports more advanced inputs than gets, I recommend using the cli-ui gem. It's a small dependency-free library...
...that provides basic building blocks, like an interactive prompt: require "cli/ui" CLI::UI::StdoutRouter.enable puts CLI::UI.fmt "a small {{red:demo}}" # supports h, j, k, l, arrows and even filtering...
...a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one website, maybe you've even used its Javascript API to implement...
...configurable without changing anything in the application's code base (and much more beyond, see below). Only prefer GTM if the customer requests it, or if he is updating his...
...window manager that provides neat features like automatic layouting of windows, good multi-display support with per display workspaces and more. Since it is only a window manager, you will...
...menus, automatic updates etc. Fortunately, you can run Awesome within MATE, by following these steps (tested on Ubuntu MATE 16.04): Awesome + MATE Create the following file at /usr/share/xsessions/Xsession.desktop: [Desktop Entry...
Select2 is a fantastic library for advanced dropdown boxes, but it depends on jQuery. Alternatives Tom Select There is a selectize.js fork called Tom Select. It is well tested, comes...
...with Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 4 and Bootstrap 5 styles and is easy to use. You might miss some advanced features. Known issues: Dynamic opt-groups in AJAX requests are not...
To set a cookie in your test browser for cucumber tests, you need to know which driver you are using. Use the step below according to your driver.
...to "([^\"]+)"$/ do |key, value| headers = {} Rack::Utils.set_cookie_header!(headers, key, value) cookie_string = headers['Set-Cookie'] Capybara.current_session.driver.browser.set_cookie(cookie_string) end Note that Rack::Utils is only used to...
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...
Starting Terminator with split screens is quite simple: Just store a layout and start Terminator with the --layout option. However, if you want to run custom commands in your terminals...
...command exits. You accomplish this by tweaking bash to run a command before actually starting. Pimp your .bashrc Add this to the end of .bashrc: # hack to keep a bash...
Git log offers useful options for filtering. This card provides a short overview. By message Only commits that include a specific string in their commit message git log --grep="tracker...
By file Only commits that introduced changes to a specific file git log -- foo.rb bar.rb Note In case the file was renamed or moved the --follow option can be...
...ae]y => grey or gray => but NOT graay or graey [0-9] matches a SINGLE digit in the range from 0 to 9 [0-9a-fA-F] hexadecimal digit...
...with caution. Mostly you'll want to use it for small expressions, e.g. for nested sub-regexes. For more details have a look at the card on quantifier modes.
...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...
Bundler allows you to specify the name of the Gemfile you want to bundle with the BUNDLE_GEMFILE environment variable. BUNDLE_GEMFILE=Gemfile.rails.7.2 bundle By default, bundler will look...
...have multiple Gemfiles in your project, which cannot all be named Gemfile. Let's say for example, you maintain a gem and want to run automated tests against multiple rails...
Ever wondered how you can create a simple table output in bash? You can use the tool column for creating a simple table output. Column gives you the possibility to...
...same level. Pipe output to column -t (maybe configure the delimeter with -s) and see the magic happening. detailed example I needed to separate a list of databases and their...
This is for people recovering from Subversion. Get an existing from the server for the first time git clone git@example.com:repositoryname See what's changed git status Check in locally...
...git commit -m "good description" Push local commits to the server git push Get and merge updates from the server git pull Stage a file for the next local commit...