S3cmd is a free command line tool and client for uploading, retrieving and managing data in Amazon S3. S3cmd reads its configuration by default from ~/.s3cfg, which is created once...
...you run s3cmd --configure. If you have many configurations, we recommend to always specify the configuration you want to use. This prevents applying actions to the wrong bucket. Examples:
Let's say you have two screens: Show a given project Show a report for all projects Ideally you want both screens to be handled by different controllers like this...
...action ProjectsController#report. But these are all unsatisfying. What you can do is wrap the sub-resource in a collection block like you would do with custom collection actions:
Using CSS sprites for background images is a technique for optimizing page load time by combining smaller images into a larger image sprite. There are ongoing arguments on how useful...
...this still is, as modern browsers become more comfortable to load images in parallel. However, many major websites still use them, for example amazon, facebook, or twitter.
We often use VCR to stub external APIs. Unfortunately VCR can have problems matching requests to recorded cassettes, and these issues are often hard to debug. VCR's error messages...
...any way it will assume an error, because it can not know how the system it mocks would answer a request it has not yet recorded. Some signs an error...
...signal("mouse::enter", function(c) local focused = client.focus if focused and focused.class == c.class and focused.instance == "sun-awt-X11-XDialogPeer" and c.instance == "sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer" then return end if awful.layout.get...
...change that one). Known issues This will not affect "find anything" as IntelliJ uses a sun-awt-X11-XFramePeer for it. There are no properties which allow distinguishing the "find...
...format ("2021-02-22T20:34:53.686Z") Google API guideline: https://google.aip.dev/ Numbers: String vs. Number The JSON number type is not a double. It's just a number...
...parsed as whatever the parser finds fitting. Pagination: Limit + Offset vs. Object ID / Pointer vs. System-Version Tables Filter Attributes e.g. ?fields=f1,f2,f3 Version in path (/api/v1/) or...
...truncated to the maximum length that is given by the group_concat_max_len system variable, which has a default value of 1024. This will cause horrible, data-destroying bugs...
...this reason you should probably not use GROUP_CONCAT ever. At least you must set the value of group_concat_max_len to an insanely high value on every database...
jQuery is still a useful and pragmatic library, but chances are increasingly that you’re not dependent on using it in your projects to accomplish basic tasks like selecting elements...
...styling them, animating them, and fetching data—things that jQuery was great at. With broad browser support of ES6 (over 96% at the time of writing), now is probably a...
...Invoked Function Expessions (or IIFEs) to prevent local variables from bleeding into an outside scope: (function() { var foo = "value"; // foo is scoped to this IIFE })(); In Coffeescript an IIFE looks...
(-> foo = "value" # foo is scoped to this IIFE )() There is also a shorthand syntax with do: do -> foo = "value" # foo is scoped to this IIFE
gem install ruby-debug (Ruby 1.8) or gem install debugger (Ruby 1.9) Start your server with script/server --debugger Set a breakpoint by invoking debugger anywhere in your code...
...path that crosses the breakpoint Once you reach the breakpoint, the page loading will seem to "hang". Switch to the shell you started the server with. That shell will be...
If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent Signature Pad plugin for jQuery. To implement, just follow the...
...steps on the Github page. The form If you have a model Signature with name: string, signature: text, you can use it with regular rails form like this:
...CSS but it does not fit fancy requirements. Here is a hack for the special case where you want to truncate one of two strings in one line that can...
...both vary in length, while fully keeping one of them. See this example screenshot where we never want to show an ellipsis for the distance: You can try pretty hard...
...have a useful blank? method. It returns true for nil but also for empty strings or empty arrays. There is also a universal method present? which returns true for all...
...may also use up.util.isBlank(). By default, this function returns true for: undefined null Empty strings Empty arrays A plain object without own enumerable properties All other arguments return false.
Microsoft Exchange service administrators can enable Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is a rather accessible XML API for interacting with Exchange. This allows you to read and send e-mails...
...meeting attendees, track responses, manage to-do tasks, check user availability and all other sorts of things that are usually only accessible from Outlook. You can implement an EWS by...
Sometimes, you may want to open up a second database connection, to a read slave or another database. When doing that, you must make sure you don't overwrite an...
...will actually cause all kinds of trouble: def with_other_database ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(slave_settings) yield ensure ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(master_settings) end Putting aside that you are setting...
Sometimes you need to monitor a connection from your machine to a specific, single host or network in order to identify which network hop between your machine and the target...
...causes trouble. You can use the following shell script to easily achieve this kind of monitoring. If the target host is unable to respond to the specified number of ICMP...
...model inherits from others or uses many concerns / traits, it might be hard to see in the code which validators it has. But fortunately there's a method for that...
...UniquenessValidator:0x00007f55f1417e88 @attributes=[:name], @klass=UserGroup (call 'UserGroup.connection' to establish a connection), @options={:case_sensitive=>true, :scope=>:partner_id}>, #<ActiveModel::Validations::NumericalityValidator:0x00007f55f1415200 @attributes=[:user_count_limit], @options={:greater_than...
There are several gems that make it easy to read and process xlsx files. Parsing the entire file at once however is error-prone since each cell is transformed to...
...formatted but empty cells. As of today, I found two promising alternatives that provide a stream-based access to spradsheet rows: Roo supports multiple spreadsheet types like ODS or CSV...
...did not happen yet you should use cap deploy:migrations. The problem Let's say that you have something like that in your config/deploy.rb to create a database dump every...
...called for cap deploy:migrations. The same applies to other things that are hooked similarly, like an after 'deploy', 'craken:install'. How to avoid it When looking at the default...
...are close to given coordinates you can use the Graticule gem. Graticule Graticule offers several methods to compute the distance between two geo-dated objects but fetching records from the...
...radius of a location is a bit trickier: def close_destinations(latitude, longitude) distance_sql = Graticule::Distance::Spherical.to_sql(:latitude => latitude, :longitude => longitude, :units => :kilometers) Destination.all(:conditions => [ "#{distance_sql...
...code from your repository. In order to do so, Capistrano connects to your repository server from the application server you're deploying to with SSH. For this connection you can...
...use two SSH keys: the user's ~/.ssh/id_rsa [default] the very same key you used for connecting to the application server - forwarded automatically to the git repository.
When you click a link or a press a button on a Selenium-controlled browser, the call will return control to your test before the next page is loaded. This...
...can lead to concurrency issues when a Cucumber step involves a Selenium action and a Ruby call which both change the same resources. Take the following step which signs in...
class Foo def bar(argument) 'Hello' + argument end end module FooExtensions def bar super(' in my') + ' World' end end class Foo prepend FooExtensions # the only change to above: prepend...
...you create columns in a migration. Its meaning depends on the column type, and sometimes the supplied value. The documentation states that :limit sets the column length to the number...
...of characters for string and text columns, and to the number of bytes for binary and integer columns. Using it This is nice since you may want a bigint column...