Understand how asynchronous JavaScript works: Read Henning's presentation about asynchronous Javascript (there's also a German video presentation...
In a web application you often need to move data between the client (HTML, Javascript) and the server (Ruby, Rails...
Exercise 1: Maps In MovieDB, add a new field “Principal filming location”. In a movie’s show view, geocode that...
Web security basics Einführung in die Web Security 🇩🇪 provides essentials for the topic of this card. Read following chapters:
Stepping forward from JavaScript Basics, the goal of this card is for you to be able to read and write...
Jasmine comes with two matchers that test for equality. The first is toBe: expect(first).toBe(second) toBe passes when...
In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task...
tl;dr: Use event.currentTarget unless you are absolutely certain that you need event.target. Since it hasn't been written down...
As developers we are dealing with many tasks every week. We need a system to organize ourselves. Goals After completing...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...
Read the following chapters from The Pragmatic Programmer, anniversary edition (in our library): Chapter 1, Topic 3: Software Entropy...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)
Understand why we test: Low defect rate without a QA department. Customer acceptance testing can concentrate on new features...
Rails is our web framework. Goals Be able to write a simple Rails application. Understand how Rails talks to the...
Ruby is the programming language we use on the backend. Goals After finishing this lesson you should be able to...
sslscan is a nice tool to show details about TLS/SSL connections: ~> sslscan some-host-at.makandra.de Testing SSL server some-host-at.makandra.de on port 443...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
Investigate why mails are frozen The exim documentation says: Freezing occurs when a bounce message encounters a permanent failure because...
Re-creating a complex ActiveRecord scenario quickly without setting up a full-blown Rails app can come in handy e.g...
Several Rails migration methods accept index: true as an option to create an index. In some cases (like #add_column...
dmesg shows the kernel ring buffer containing low-level system messages. Per default, dmesg shows a timestamp:
When using send_file (for example for attachments of any kind), make sure your application knows the correct mime types...
You can freeze any Ruby object to prevent further modification. If you freeze an ActiveRecord and try to set an...