Tabs in Textarea Plugin for jQuery
This is a demo of the "Tabby" Javascript jQuery plugin to use tabs in regular textareas to make them suitable for in-browser coding of languages like HTML, CSS, Javascript, or your favorite server-side language. The idea is to be able to use a press of the TAB button or SHIFT+TAB to indent or outdent your code.
What's My DNS? Global DNS Propagation Checker
whatsmydns.net is an online service that allows you to instantly perform a DNS lookup to check a hostnames current IP Address and other DNS information against a selection of random name servers around the world. This is especially useful to check the current state of DNS propagation after making changes to your domains zones.
Thoughtbot's experiences with headless Javascript testing
Selenium has been the siren song that continually calls out to us. Unfortunately, in practice we’ve been unable to get Selenium to run reliably for real applications, on both developers machines and on the continuous integration server. This failure with Selenium has caused us to search for alternative solutions
Making AJAX Applications Crawlable
This document describes an agreement between web servers and search engine crawlers that allows for dynamically created content to be visible to crawlers. Google currently supports this agreement. The hope is that other search engines will also adopt this proposal.
GoRuCo 2010 - James Golick - Scaling to Hundreds of Millions of Requests on Vimeo
Physical servers worked, EC2 did not.
mezzoblue § Sprite Optimization
Maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention, but over the past few years an interesting variation of CSS Sprites has been getting a lot of play on large web sites that serve millions of users.
bundle-fu - Google Code
Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server and back! This is bad! Bundle-fu throws it all up into a big package and sends it out all at once.
Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org
I’m working on a problem for a client which involves connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database from Linux using Ruby. Here’s what I did to get it working, based off some useful instructions that are tailored for Ruby on Rails:
PragDave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient
So, as a result, people using RESTful ideas to talk to browsers have to put the smarts back on the server. They invent new URLs which (for example) return a resource, but return it all wrapped up in the HTML needed to display it as a form for browser-based editing.
FileMaker API for Ruby : SFR FileMaker Blog
Rfm brings your FileMaker data to Ruby with elegance and speed. Now your Ruby scripts and Rails applications can talk directly to your FileMaker server with a syntax that just feels right.
Should You Use JavaScript Library CDNs? « Lickity Split
sing Google’s JavaScript Library CDN comes with a 1/3 of a second tax on missing. (Note that a tax like this applies to opening connections to a any new host: JavaScript Library CDNs, advertisers, analytics and visitor tracking, etc. This is why you should try to reduce the number of different hostnames you serve content from.)
lg's murder at master - GitHub
Large scale server deploys using BitTorrent and the BitTornado library.
jspdf - Project Hosting on Google Code
jsPDF is an open-source library for generating PDF documents using nothing but Javascript. You can use it in a Firefox extension, in Server Side Javascript and with Data URIs in some browsers.
Highlight your prompt on production machines
Next in our series on not shooting yourself in the foot: Doing a sudo shutdown -h now on the main database server right before you head home to cook dinner for six.
Cucumber: Wait for any requests to finish before moving on to the next scenario
Background
Generally, Selenium tests use the browser to interact with the page. If it's unavailable, a timeout error is thrown.
Now, consider a scenario like this:
@javascript
Scenario: Receive an e-mail after clicking the fancy link
When I follow "fancy link"
Then I should have an e-mail with the subject "Hello"
When the last step in the scenario passes, you are done. Right? Wrong.
Why it's not enough
What if clicking our "fancy link" above sends the e-mail that we expect, but it also does stuff on the server...
skorks/nesty
Nested exceptions for Ruby:
When you rescue an error and then re-raise your own, you don't have to lose track of what actually occured, you can keep/nest the old error in your own and the stacktrace will reflect the cause of the original error.
This is awesome when you classes convert exception classes. I now always subclass Nesty::NestedStandardError instead of StandardError for my own error classes.
About Exception#cause
Ruby 2.1 has a built-in mechanism with Exception#cause, which serves a similiar purpos...
Live CSS / view reloading
Next time you have to do more than trivial CSS changes on a project, you probably want to have live CSS reloading, so every time you safe your css, the browser updates automatically. It's pretty easy to set up and will safe you a lot of time in the long run. It will also instantly reload changes to your html views.
Simply follow the instructions below, taken from blog.55minutes.com.
Install CSS live reload (only once per project)
- Add th...
How to hide your selenium browser window with "headless"
Note: While the solution in this card should still work, we prefer another solution now: Hide your Selenium browser window with a VNC server.
If you would like to hide the annoying selenium browser window that always gets the focus and prevents you from working, you can use the headless gem. This note provides some instructions how you can get it to work with your cucumber accepta...
better rails app restart with the passenger restart-app tool
With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart immediately instead of on the next request. http://blog.phusion.nl/2014/01/02/phusion-passenger-4-0-33-released/
If you want to use this with capistrano 2.x just replace the touch command:
- run "touch #{current_path}/tmp/restart.txt"
+ run "passenger-config restart-app --ignore-app-not-running #{deploy_to}...
Capistrano + Rails: Automatically skipping asset compilation when assets have not changed
In medium-sized to large Rails applications, asset compilation can take several minutes. In order to speed up deployment, asset precompilation can be skipped. This card automates the process.
Capistrano 3
namespace :deploy do
desc 'Automatically skip asset compile if possible'
task :auto_skip_assets do
asset_locations = %r(^(Gemfile\.lock|app/assets|lib/assets|vendor/asset))
revisions = []
on roles :app do
within current_path do
revisions << capture(:cat, 'REVISION').strip
...
Test a download's filename with Cucumber
These steps are now part of Spreewald.
The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the server:
When I follow "Export as ZIP"
Then I should get a download with the filename "contacts_20110203.zip"
Capybara
Then /^I should get a download with the filename "([^\"]*)"$/ do |filename|
page.driver.response.headers['Content-Disposition'].should include("filename=\"#{filename}\"")
end
Webrat
Then /...