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.

One example are dates:

If you index the text 2019-01-23 15:16, PostgreSQL will create the following tokens: 2019, -01, -23, 15 16. A user searching for 01-23 wi...

This is a presentation from 2019-01-21.

Summary

• We want to move away from jQuery in future projects
• Motivations are performance, bundle size and general trends for the web platform.
• The native DOM API is much nicer than it used to be, and we can polyfill the missing pieces
• Unpoly 0.60.0 works with or without jQuery

Is jQuery slow?

From: Sven
To: unpoly@googlegroups.com
Subject: performance on smartphones and tablets

Hello

I just used your framework in one project and must say,
I am really pleased with it -- but o...

Spammers have started abusing other application to send their spam. This works like this:

• The application has some form that allows to send e-mails to arbitrary users. This can be something like a newsletter sign-up with a double-opt in, a registration confirmation e-mail (or even password reset e-mail), or something similar.
• The e-mail also includes some reflected text. For example, a user may be able to give their name, and the name is used within the e-mail. The spammer will then abuse that text to include his advertisment.

Potentia...

When restoring a PostgreSQL dump using pg_restore, you usually add the --clean flag to remove any existing data from tables.

Note that this only removes data from tables that are part of the dump and will not remove any extra tables. You need to do that yourself.

When is this relevant?

As an example: You want to load a staging dump into your development machine. On your development machine, you have run migrations that introduced more tables which do not yet exist on staging. pg_restore with --clean will loa...

When building an application that sends e-mails to users, you want to avoid those e-mails from being classified as spam. Most obvious scoring issues will not be relevant to you because you are not a spammer.

However, your application must do one thing by itself: When sending HTML e-mails, you should include a plain-text body or tools like SpamAssassin will apply a significant score penalty. Here is how to do that automatically.

1. Add premailer-rails to your Gemfile and bundle.
2. Done! ...

The standard way to abort async code is that your function takes a AbortSignal { signal } property. The caller can use this signal to send an abort request to your function. Upon receiving the request, your function should reject its promise with an error.

Async browser functions like fetch() reject their promises with a new DOMException('Message here', 'AbortError') when canceled.

This already has good browser support and can be polyfilled on older browsers.

Exa...

When doing Basic Authentication, your browser will send an "Authorization" header. Its value is simply a Base64-encoded representation of "username:password" (like when you place credentials in the URL directly). Example for "user@example.com" with password "secret":

Authorization: Basic dXNlckBleGFtcGxlLmNvbTpzZWNyZXQ=

So, in Ruby, you can create such headers like so:

Base64.strict_encode64("#{username}:#{password}")

Note that when speaking to a REST API, you should be using libraries like RestClient or HTTParty which will wrap ...

In ruby you can easily read and write CSVs with the standard CSV library class.

On top of this, you can use the gem smarter_csv for reading (not writing) CSVs in a more comfortable way:

• Keep in mind, that the development of this gem is in an unknown state and the 2.0 release seems to happen never
• The API will change completely for 2.0, so you might find a bunch of unrelated documentation for 1.2

Here is an example...

To restart all tasks monitored by God, don't use god restart. This command is only meant to soft-restart a given process or group.

Instead you should:

god stop
god terminate
god start -c yourgodconfig.god

Cucumber has an output format that prints step definitions only. You can use this to find unused ones:

1. Temporarily add require_relative 'env' to the top of the first file in features/support. --dry-run makes Cucumber skip loading env.rb.
2. Open a really wide terminal window.
3. bundle exec cucumber --dry-run --format stepdefs | grep -B1 'NOT MATCHED' --no-group-separator | grep features/step_definitions

This will print all unused step definitions from your project – however, the result will include false positives. Step...

When upgrading Rails versions -- especially major versions -- you will run into a lot of unique issues, depending on the exact version, and depending on your app.

However, it is still possible to give some generic advice on how you want to tackle the update in principle.

If you are not really confident about upgrading Rails, have a look at Rails LTS.

How many update steps?

Besides the Rails upgrade itself, you might also want to upgrade your other gems and upgrade your Ruby version.
First decide in how many st...

The Ace editor is a great enhancement when you want users to supply some kind of code (HTML, JavaScript, Ruby, etc).
It offers syntax highlighting and some neat features like auto-indenting.

For Webpack 3+

Integrate as described in the documentation. For example load ace Editor like this:

  function loadAceEditor() {
    return import(/* webpackChunkName: "ace" */ 'ace-builds/src-noconflict/ace').then(() => {
      return import(/* webpackChunkName: "ace" */ 'ace-builds/webpack-r...

If your Rubymine does not recognize a file type correctly although you have entered the unmistakeable file extension like material_orders_controller.rb, this may help you:

Causing the Problem

Sometimes you create a new file and forget to enter the ending like material_orders_controller
Rubymine handles such files per default as simple txt files.
You delete this file and create a new one with correct ending: material_orders_controller.rb. But still Rubymine treats this file as text file, no highlighting is available.

What happene...

We figured out, that ActiveJob Inline might lead to autoloading problems in development. The result was an exception when running an import script, which delivers async mails.

A copy of XXX has been removed from the module tree but is still active! (ArgumentError)

Our fix was to use .deliver_now and not .deliver_later (this is not a general fix, but it was okey for us). Below there are some debug hints which helped us to locate the problem:

• We placed a pry debugger in [ActiveSupport#clear](https://github.com/rails/rails/blob...

Occasionally, your designer will hand you designs where elements break the layout's horizontal container width, like navigation buttons of a slider that should be at the left/right of the browser window, or simply by applying a background color that reaches until the left and right of the browser window.

In the past, we've done some horrible things to achieve that. Like margin: 0 -10000px plus overflow-x: hidden.
There is a much saner approach.

Consider the following markup:

<body>
  <div class="container">
    <div class="sec...

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') // or $('.my-element').get(0) when using jQuery

Next, use JavaScript'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...

There are two ways to lock a user in devise.

1. Using the lockable module
2. Customizing the user account status validation when logging in.

It depends on your requirements which methods works best.

Locking a user on soft delete

We recommend to use option 2 when you want to couple the lock to the m...

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 a DOM node for the following HTML. We'll reference it by $element below.

<div class="example is-amazing is-wonderful"></div>

Option A: Selecting classes, then removing them

You can iterate over existing classes, and select matching ones. The example below is ES6, on ES5 could write something similar using jQuery.grep.

let classes ...

When you are using lambdas in RSpec to assert certain changes of a call, you know this syntax:

expect { playlist.destroy }.to change { Playlist.count }.by(-1)

While you can define multiple assertions through multiple specs, you may not want to do so, e.g. for performance or for the sake of mental overhead.

Multiple expectations on the same subject

RSpec allows chaining expectations simply by using and.

expect { playlist.destroy }
  .to change { Playlist.count }.by(-1)
  .and not_change { Video.count }

...

Percent Notation

We already know that that we can create strings using the percent notation:

%(<foo="bar's ton">) is perfectly fine Ruby.

Modifier

But there is more. The curly brackets ({}) are interchangable with most unicode characters (e.g. square brackets[]).
Furthermore, you can add a "modifier" to the percent notation to control the return type of th...

Mobile Chrome and Safari support the "web share API" which allow you to use the native share functionality of an Android or iOS phone. Some desktop OSs like Windows or MacOS also support native share dialogs. See Can I Use for a detailed support matrix.

When clicking a share button using this API, the browser will automatically show all installed applications that support content sharing, such as Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, e-mail etc.

The API is extremely simple to use:

if ...

Geordi uses parallel_tests if available for running the test suite. To debug an application it is very unhandy to have multiple processes as your terminal I/O will not work as expected once a breakpoint is hit.

Even parallel_tests support an option to enable a single process run, it is not possible to pass this option through geordi. But you can set the number of processes via ENV variable manually:

PARALLEL_TEST_PROCESSORS=1 bundle exec geordi cucu...

It is possible to access Rails config (for example secrets) from within your webpack bundles, thanks to rails-erb-loader. When using webpacker, the setup is like this:

1. Install rails-erb-loader:

   yarn add rails-erb-loader
   

2. Add this to your config/webpacker/environment.js:

   environment.loaders.prepend('erb', {
     test: /\.erb$/,
     enforce: 'pre',
     use: [{
       loader: 'rails-erb-loader',
     }]
   })
   

3. Start using erb. For examp...