As developers we are dealing with many tasks every week. We need a system to organize ourselves. Goals After completing this card you should have: A to-do list that...
...never forget a task that a colleague or customer gives us. A habit of splitting any kind of task or project into actionable first steps. A habit of fully completing...
This card is a general reminder to avoid the short version of a command option in shared code. It's much easier to understand a command and search for an...
...option when it's written out. You can still use the short version of the options in your own terminal or in code snippets that are more useful when they...
Although regular expression syntax is 99% interchangeable between languages, keep this in mind: By default, the dot character (".") does not match a line feed (newline, line break, "\n") in any...
...use the /s modifier in Ruby. It changes the RegExp to interpret text as Shift JIS encoded which you probably don't want. Javascript There is no modifier to make...
...or not to gem": Gem is really needed (prefer writing your own code for simple requirements without many edge cases) Gem is tested well (coverage and quality)
...the project requirement Try to avoid gems that do much more than your requirement scope needs Gem has a good maturity and maintenance Gem has a good / familiar DSL
...desktop users may encounter some weird quirks: Aside from allowing only digits and decimal separators, an "e" is also allowed (to allow scientific notation like "1e3"). Non-technical users will...
...be confused by this. Your server needs to understand that syntax. If it converts only digits (e.g. to_i in Ruby) you'll end up with wrong values (like...
...administrator before publication. Requirements Movies in MovieDB should have one of the following workflow states: draft pending published declined A movie always begins as a draft and then transitions through...
...as it's getting reviewed. This could be a typical state flow for a movie: stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> draft draft --> pending pending --> declined: Reason declined --> pending pending --> published Changes to the...
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...
Event delegation is a pattern where a container element has a single event listener that handles events for all descendants that match a CSS selector. This pattern was popularized by...
...element was clicked!") }) This technique has some advantages: When you have many descendants, you save time by only registering a single listener. When the descendants are changed dynamically via JavaScript...
Both knapsack and parallel_tests have the option to split groups by historic execution time. The required logs for this might be outdated since you manually have to update and...
...consistently up to date with no extra effort locally and/or remotely. How to always split by execution logs Parallel Tests The parallel_tests gem has the option flag --group-by...
...has to decide whether and how to do authorization. The usual approaches are: Using send_file with a regular controller. This is secure, but potentially slow, especially for large collections...
...This is fast (because Apache can deliver assets without going through Rails), but less secure. When going with the "unguessable URL" approach, it is possible to somewhat increase security by...
...are automagically available through accessors on the Active Record object. When you need to specialize this behavior, you may override the default accessors (using the same name as the attribute...
...and simply call the original implementation with a modified value. Example: class Poet < ApplicationRecord def name=(value) super(value.strip) end end Note that you can also avoid the original setter...
...config={}). There also is a generate method which will run the generator in a subprocess. Call it with generate 'generator_name', 'command line args'. Expected (hard-coded) directory structure of...
... #{generator name, e.g. model}_generator.rb USAGE Templates If you want to use the supplied template, directory and other template methods, you must call source_root 'path/to/templates' inside your generator...
...This release has many minor changes and fixes to prepare your application for Rails 3. Step-by-step upgrade instructions: Upgrade rails gem Change your environment.rb so it says RAILS...
...for a detailed list of changes. 2.3.9 to 2.3.10 Fixes Vulnerability in Nested Attributes code. Step-by-step upgrade instructions: Upgrade rails gem Change your environment.rb so it says RAILS...
...this card, we describe a wrapper for it that humanizes a given number of seconds in the "next best" unit, like seconds, minutes, etc. Example usage >> new Duration(42).humanized...
>> new Duration(123456).humanized() => '1 Tag' >> new Duration(123456).humanized('es') => '1 día' Code Here is the code as an ECMAScript module. Note that we default to German in...
...Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code DRY by sharing behavior by using inheritance, modules, traits or partials. When you reuse behavior you want to...
...writing integration tests with Cucumber, where you need to express yourself with Gherkin and step definitions instead of Ruby classes and methods. But don't dispair! Below you will find...
...like json or yaml). When you use it, it has an opinion on every single whitespace and linebreak, as well as a few other things. You renamed a variable and...
...prettier will reformat your code. This might not work for you if you have strong opinions yourself. You cannot configure it to do exactly what you want, there a deliberately...
Goals Know how to use the native DOM API to do the following: Selecting all elements matching a given CSS selector Selecting all descendants of a given element matching...
...a given CSS selector Registering event listeners Changing an element's CSS classes Changing an element's attributes Making the same change to a list of elements, e.g. hiding them...
...s presentation about asynchronous Javascript (there's also a German video presentation in our shared folder) Read about Promises on MDN and this visualization Read about async / await.
Read about canceling promises Error handling in event listeners Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules Picking the Right Tool for Maneuvering JavaScript's Event Loop Browse the internet to answer...
...to compile the new main.ts file, e.g.: { // other options like "extents":, "compilerOptions":, "include": "files": [ "src/app/shared/spec/setup/main.ts" ], } Why Use a Custom Test Entry Configure global test environment providers Register custom Jasmine matchers...
...and test utilities Load icons, themes, and other test-wide setup Replace CLI's auto-generated bootstrap with your own Important: Keep TestBed options aligned with CLI defaults (strict error...
Add apt source: apt update -y && apt install -y gpg sudo wget curl sudo install -dm...
.../etc/apt/keyrings wget -qO - https://mise.jdx.dev/gpg-key.pub | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/mise-archive-keyring.gpg 1> /dev/null echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/mise-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://mise.jdx.dev/deb stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mise.list
...default to using the element as the main document viewport. In CSS, prefer to set overflow properties to html (or :root). Scrolling the main viewport with JavaScript
...main document viewport is also scrollable by default. The element that corresponds to the main viewport is either (document.documentElement) or (document.body). Which one depends on the browser.
Icon fonts like Font Awesome are infinitely scalable, look great on high-DPI displays and will give your app a modern look. However, icon fonts can be very awkward to...
...use compared to raster icons. Elements are given icons by giving them a special class like icon-plus or icon-home: Create The icon font's stylesheet will then recognize...
To get a good overview about load, cpu frequency, temperature sensors, etc. we found s-tui quite useful. It's included in Ubuntu's default repositories: $ sudo apt install...
$ s-tui While it's possible to run s-tui as root for even more information and optionally also make use of stress for benchmarking, those methods did...
...latest commits are not ready for production? Then use git merge master~n to skip the n-last commits. Tip A big advantage of merging vs. cherry-picking is that...