...aws-credential-file ./aws-credential.txt The output should look something like this: arn:aws:iam::322191361670:server-certificate/www.example.com arn:aws:iam::322191361670:server-certificate/testCert Now you have to upload...
...and includes the server certificate Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and GUID: arn:aws:iam::322191361670:server-certificate/www.example.com-2011 ASCACexampleKEZUQ4K If you got the error message similar to A client error...
Here is some JavaScript code that allows you to click the screen and get the clicked element's text contents (or value, in case of inputs). The approach is simple...
...element. When you click the overlay, we look up the element underneath it and show its text in a browser dialog. You can then copy it from there.
...To reconfigure later, call s3cmd --configure. Once you're done setting up, s3cmd gives you shell-like commands like s3cmd ls or s3cmd del somefile.png. Here is a full list...
s3cmd accesslog s3://BUCKET Sign arbitrary string using the secret key s3cmd sign STRING-TO-SIGN Sign an S3 URL to provide limited public access with expiry
Ruby's String#split returns an array of substrings from the given string. Usually, this is missing the split characters: >> 'user@example.com'.split('@') => ["user", "example.com"] If you want to join those...
...parts later on, you might know the split character and can just use it to join explicitly. But if you split by a regular expression (for a set of split...
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...
...methods and properties) video = document.querySelector('video') video.play() video.pause() video.load() // Reset to the beginning and select the best available source video.currentSrc // The selected source video.currentTime // The current playback time (in seconds...
...video.ended // Whether the video has finished video.muted video.paused video.readyState // See comments video.volume Comments controls makes the browser show its own video controls The image given in poster will be shown...
Sometimes you want to have a time in a given timezone independent from you Rails timezone settings / system timezone. I usually have this use case in tests. Example
...results e.g. 2020-08-09 00:00:00 +0200 depending on the Rails timezone settings / system timezone. But in this example we always want to have the given time in...
...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...
ZSH is an alternative command line shell that includes some features like spelling correction, cd automation, better theme, and plugin support. You can replace Bash with ZSH like following:
...apt-get install zsh Setting ZSH as default login shell sudo usermod -s /usr/bin/zsh $(whoami) Opening a new terminal window will show you a dialog where you can configure your...
In rare cases you might need something like form_for (for using form builder methods on the resulting block element) but without the surrounding form. One such case would be...
...updating some of a form's fields via XHR. You can simply use Rails' fields_for to do things like this in your views (HAML here): - fields_for @user do...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...in: days) to import, while I actually just wanted to have the full database structure with some data to use on my development machine. After trying several suggestions on how...
...to speed up slow MySQL dump imports (which did not result in any significant improvement), I chose to import just some rows per table to suffice my needs. Since editing...