Ruby's __FILE__ keyword returns the path to the current file. On popular for this are Ruby binaries:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
$LOAD_PATH << File.expand_path('../../lib', __FILE__)
require 'my_cli'
MyCli.run!

However, if you create a symlink to this file, this will no longer work. __FILE__ will resolve to the path of the symlink, not to its target.

One solution is to use File.realpath(__FILE__).

In Ruby 2+ you can also use this:

$LOAD_PATH << File.expand_path('../lib', __dir__)

__dir__ is simply a shortcut for `...

Is your application doing something expensive every few seconds? Maybe an animated slider that rotates images? Maybe you are updating data over the network every five minutes?

It's a good idea to pause this if the your document tab is not even visible to the user. This saves your user's battery and data plan.

You can ask document.visibilityState whether this tab is visible:

function pulse() {
  if (!document.visibilityState || document.visibilityState...

Current webkit browsers like Chrome and Safari have a special variable in their consoles that refers to the selected DOM node in the elements panel. This lets us easily inspect Angular scopes.

0. Right click in the page and click "Inspect" to open the Dev Tools

1. Select the element you're interested in from the elements panel

2. Focus the console (in Chrome, hit ESC)

3. Get the scope object and store it

   s=$($0).scope()
   
   // That is:
   element = $0 // Store element
   $element = $(element) // Wrap with j...
   

While verifying doubles in RSpec is a good default, it is limited in the amount of methods it actually is able to verify.

The background is that RSpec can't verify dynamically defined methods, which is a known issue for the usage of helper_method and also the reason why [RSpec >= 3.6](http://rspec.info/blog/2017/05/rspec-3-6-has-been-rel...

Tempfiles get deleted automatically

With the the ruby Tempfile class you can create temporary files. Those files only stick around as long as you have a reference to those. If no more variable points to them, the GC may finalize the object at some point and the file will be removed from the filesystem. If you would try to access your tempfile then using its path (which you stored previously), you would get an error because the file no longer exists.

Unlink your tempfiles when you're done with them
-...

Chrome gives you the currently selected element in the inspector with $0. If you select a button in the DOM you can set and inspect the event handler with the following two code lines:

$($0).on('click', function() { console.log('Hello') })

jQuery._data($0, "events").click[0].handler
// => "function () { console.log('Hello') }"

This is useful for debugging.

On application servers, gems are usually bundled into the project directory, at a location shared across deployments.

This is usually shared/bundle inside your project's root directory, e.g. /var/www/your-project/shared/bundle/.
If you can't find that, take a look at current/.bundle/config and look for BUNDLE_PATH.

When you are changing the version of RubyGems or Bundler on a system where gems are installed this way, you must wipe that bundle directory in addition to the user and system gems or gems that are already ins...

The problem

When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app:

app/assets/fonts
app/assets/images
app/assets/javascripts
app/assets/stylesheets

With the asset pipeline, you can use the full power of Ruby to generate assets. E.g. you can have ERB tags in your Javascript. Or you can have an ERB template which generates Haml which generates HTML. You can chain as many preprocessors as you want.

When you deploy, Rails runs assets:precompile...

I recently had the problem that embedded code boxes crashed my layout.

It turned out that pres break out of their containers when using them inside a deeper nested flex layout.
For me it was a flex inside a flex item (fleXzibit).

<div class="flex">
  <div class="flex-item">
    ...
    <div class="nested-flex">
      <div class="nested-flex-item">
        <pre>A code example</pre>
      </div>
    </div>
    ...
  </div>
</div>

The reason is that flexbox items default to `mi...

tl;dr

With ES2021 you now can use str.replaceAll(), Promise.any(), logical assignment operators, numeric separators and WeakRef on all major browsers except IE11.

replaceAll

JavaScript's replace(searchValue, replaceValueOrFn) by default replaces only the first match of a given String or RegExp.
When supplying a RegExp as the searchValue argument, you can specify the g ("global") modifier, but you have to remember doing that, hence using replace when you expect global replacement is prone to errors.
When supplying st...

There is a way to use multiple databases in Rails.
You may have asked yourself how you're able to keep your test databases clean, if you're running multiple databases with full read and write access at the same time. This is especially useful when migrating old/existing databases into a new(er) one.

Your database.yml may look like this:

default: &default
  adapter: postgresql
  encoding: unicode
  username: <%= ENV['DATABASE_USER'] %>
  host: <%= ENV['DATABASE...

tl;dr
You can use attribute? as shorthanded version of attribute.present?, except for numeric attributes and associations.

Technical Details

attribute? is generated for all attributes and not only for boolean attributes.

These methods are using #query_attribute under the hood. For more details you can see ActiveRecord::AttributeMethods::Query.

In most circumstances query_attribute is working like attribute.present?. If your attribute is responding to :zero? then you have to be aware that `query_attri...

You can use Unpoly's up.on with a named listener function and immediately unbind this event listener with { once: true }:

up.on('up:fragment:inserted', { once: true }, function () { ... })

In Unpoly 1 you can immediately unregister the listener with up.off:

up.on('up:fragment:inserted', function fragmentInsertedCallback() {
  up.off('up:fragment:inserted', fragmentInsertedCallback)
  // ... code for the callback function, which should run only once
})

Exam...

The gemspec for gems allows to add metadata to your gem, some of which have a special meaning and are helpful for users.
You can provide links to your Github bugtracker or changelog file that are then used on the rubygems page of your gem (in the sidebar, e.g. see gem page of consul).

Here are some keys that should be filled:

Gem::Specification.new do |s|
  s.name = 'my-gem'
  s.homepage = 'https://github.com/makandra/my-gem'

  s.metadata = {
    'source_code_uri' => s.homepage,
    'bug_tracker...

In Chrome DevTools you can use getEventListeners(object) to get a list of registered event listeners on the specified object.

You can also do this without the console, by selecting an element in the DOM inspector. In the element details, select the tab Event Listeners".

Example

const registry = getEventListeners(document)

registry['up-click']
// 0: { useCapture: false, passive: false, once: false, type: 'up:click', listener: ƒ }
// 1: { useCapture: false, passive: false, once: false, type: 'up:click', listener: ƒ }
//...

When you need information about a gem (like version(s) or install path(s)), you can use the gem binary from the command line, or the Gem API inside a ruby process at runtime.

gem binary (in a terminal)

You can get some information about a gem by running gem info <gem name> in your terminal.

Example:

$ gem info irb

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

irb (1.4.1, 1.3.5)
    Author: Keiju ISHITSUKA
    Homepage: https://github.com/ruby/irb
    Licenses: Ruby, BSD-2-Clause
    Installed at (1.4.1): /home/arne/.rbenv/versions/3.0.3/lib/ruby/g...

Merge requests are often rejected for similar reasons.

To avoid this, before you send a merge request, please confirm that your code ...

• has been reviewed by yourself beforehand
• fulfills every requirement defined as an acceptance criterion
• does not have any log or debugging statements like console.log(...), byebug etc.
• has green tests
• has tests...

When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data shared between threads, or by only using immutable data structures. Ruby core classes like String or Array are not immutable.

There are several gems providing thread-safe collection classes in Ruby.

concurrent-ruby

The concurrent-ruby gem provides thread-safe versions of Array and Hash:

sa = Concurrent::Array.new # supports standard Array.new forms
sh = Co...

tl;dr: Use the URLSearchParams API to make your live easier if you want to get or manipulate query parameters (URL parameters).

URLSearchParams API

The URLSearchParams API is supported in all major browsers except IE 11.

It offers you a bunch of useful methods:

• URLSearchParams.append() - appends a query parameter
• URLSearchParams.delete() - deletes the specified query parameter
• URLSearchParams.get() - returns the value of the specified query parameter
• `URLSearchP...

An alternative to this technique is using VCR. VCR allows you to record and replay real HTTP responses, saving you the effort to stub out request/response cycles in close details. If your tests do require close inspection of requests and responses, Webmock is still the way.

WebMock is an alternative to FakeWeb when testing code that uses the network. You sh...