Suppose you want to implement a publish/subscribe pattern in your Frontend application to react to data changes and events. First, you might be looking for an event emitter library.
Here is a hacky way to load dumps directly from the source server, without fully copying them over and extracting them first. It may break horribly for you. This is...
...the dark side of the force. Install pipe viewer, if you don't have it already: sudo apt-get install pv Know the location of the dump file on the...
WProofreader is a spelling and grammar checking tool that integrates with textareas and numerous WYSIWYG editors. While it usually activates automatically, depending on your application, it may fail to boot...
...do that ourselves, so we disable it autoDestroy: true, lang: 'de_DE', serviceId: '...', // ... } Ensure https://svc.webspellchecker.net/spellcheck31/wscbundle/wscbundle.js is loaded as described in the docs. To activate WProofreader, you can now...
...language when they visit the root path. Here is how to do it without a server-side component (like a Rails application). Use JavaScript's navigator.language (real browsers and IE11...
...following JavaScript will try to auto-detect a user's preferred language. It understands strings like like de_AT, and if the user prefers neither of your supported languages it...
...dependencies and database types. Here's what Gemika can give your test's development setup (all features are opt-in): Test one codebase against multiple sets of gem dependency sets...
...currently MySQL or PostgreSQL). Compute a matrix of all possible dependency permutations (Ruby, gem set, database type). Manually exclude incompatible dependency permutations (e.g. Rails 5.0 does not work with Ruby...
The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use case, except for a few very rarely needed things. It...
...s not something you'll likely reach for on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. The only thing you really need to know about it is what it does...
In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task. # /lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb _cset :shared_children, %w(public/system log tmp/pids) # ... task :finalize...
...update, :except => { :no_release => true } do # ... shared_children.map do |d| run "ln -s #{shared_path}/#{d.split('/').last} #{latest_release}/#{d}" # <-- symlinks only the last segment here end # ... end This would symlink...
...could also use Haml instead. Example Consider the following helper. def greeting message = ''.html_safe message << 'Welcome to ' message << content_tag(:span, Rails.env, class: 'greeting--location') content_tag :div, message...
...That looks clumsy and is hard to read. Wouldn't it be nicer to say something like this? def greeting render_haml <<-HAML .greeting Welcome to %span.greeting--location = Rails.env
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is a European marketing association which has introduced a standard how advertising can be served to users in line with the General Data Protection Regulation...
...GDPR). This standard is called the TCF 2.0 (Transparency and Consent Framework). If you want to integrate any kind of advertising into a website, chances are the advertising network will...
jQuery offers many different methods to move a selection through the DOM tree. These are the most important: $element.find(selector) Get the descendants of each element in the current set...
...of matched elements, filtered by a selector. Does not find the current element, even it matches. If you wanted to do that, you need to write $element.find(selector).addBack(selector...
...all for laying out your HTML emails. Email client HTML rendering is way more scattered than browser HTML. While you might have a pretty good understanding of what features and...
...patterns you can use to support all major browsers, I doubt anyone masters this craft for HTML email clients. The only way to ensure your email looks good (acceptable, at...
...that whenever you are using those values for database interaction, you'll end up scoping on the wrong records since the database representation of these dates is not converted to...
Use form models to handle this problem Or soften the validation to validates_presence_of :parent Usually you would validate presence of parent object id, like in this...
validates_presence_of :parent_id # <- end With the parent already persisted creating nesteds still works fine. But one will encounter a 'parent id missing' error on creating a parent...
...You can add other AWS account depending files like .fog or .guignol.yml too. Create symlinks for some config files like .aws_credentials and .fog: ln -s ~/.aws/.aws_credentials ~/.aws_credentials
...export EC2_CERT=~/.aws/cert-ec2.pem export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE=~/.aws/aws-credentials Perhaps you also want to set a default region and the JAVA_HOME: export EC2_REGION=eu-west-1
Say you have an RGBA color that you need as a non-transparent color because of reasons. Basically, this is possible. Just understand that you will convert your RGBA color...
...your background is white, so you'll use #fff as that for examples below. Simple approach When your know the RGBA color's base RGB color (e.g. your brand color...
In specs, the session never persists but is always a new object for each request. Data put into the session in a previous request is lost. Here is how to...
...circumvent that. What's going on? You are making ActionController::TestRequests in your specs, and their #initialize method does this: self.session = TestSession.new This means that each time you say something...
Barby is a great Ruby gem to generate barcodes of all different sorts. It includes support for QR codes via rQRCode; if you need to render only QR codes, you...
>> Barby::Code128.new('Hello Universe').to_image.to_data_url => "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAA..." For super-crisp barcodes, render them as SVG. Printing images usually causes some level of blur...
...should), the host's IP address is: 10.0.2.2 You'll need it to access shared folders or your host's web server when testing pages in IE.
When you need to check a value for presence, don't rely on JavaScript since it considers 0 or "0" false. Also don't rely on LoDash's _.isEmpty:
While the name implies that it's meant only for collections, you probably still want something like isBlank or isPresent that return true/false for objects humans would normally consider...
Accessing pseudo elements via JavaScript or jQuery is often painful/impossible. However, accessing their styles is fairly simple. Using getComputedStyle First, find the element in question. let element = document.querySelector('.my-element...
...s getComputedStyle. It takes an optional 2nd argument to filter for pseudo elements. let style = window.getComputedStyle(element, '::before') let color = style.getPropertyValue('background-color') The returned color will be a string...
...up little more than one extra line in the output of ps. On a server I want to get informed if there are zombie processes and track them with a...
...two choices, fix it or kill it. In this case it's no critical service and I can just restart it...
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your tests as described in their documentation. When sending a message...
...body, the savon mock object requires a message to be set, like this: savon.expects(:action_name).with(message: { user_id: 123 }).returns(' ') If you want to stub only the returned...
Besides their default styling properties, HTML elements have a semantic meaning. For example, an h1 tag is usually styled with a larger font and bold, while it denotes "the single...
...single main content of a page nav for sets of navigation links article for independent, self-contained content section for sections like chapters, typically with a heading aside for content...
...require 'mathn' 2 / 3 => Rational(2,3) 2 / 3 * 3 => 2 While this might sometimes be quite neat, it's a nightmare if this gets required by some gem that...
...suddenly redefines integer division across your whole project. Known culprits are the otherwise excellent distribution and GetText gems (the later only when working with mo-files). To fix this, you...