Module imports are hoisted (internally moved to the beginning of the current scope). Therefore, it doesn’t matter where you mention them in a module and the following...
Footgun example When you're not aware of import hoisting you may be surprised that your code runs in a different order than you see in the source file...
In interactive commands, Git allows the user to provide one-letter input with a single key without hitting enter (docs). # Enabled this feature globally git config --global interactive.singlekey true
...enable this feature locally for a single repository git config interactive.singlekey true This allows you to hit "y" instead of "y + ENTER" to move to the next hunk.
...that's not a float! This occurs because JavaScript uses double precision floats to store numbers. So according to IEEE floating point definition only numbers between...
...and 2^53 - 1 (9007199254740991) can safely be represented in JavaScript. Note that ECMAScript 6 will probably also offer Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER (and Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER) that point to those...
...use puppet-lint to find dead code in your project: # You probably need to set some ENV Variables, see https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-ghostbuster#environment-variables export HIERA_YAML_PATH="/home/bob/code/puppet/hiera.yaml" export PUPPETDB_URL...
...discouraged to load your JavaScript by a tag in the : The reason is that a tag will pause the DOM parser until the script has loaded and executed. This will delay the browser's first contentful paint. A much better default is to load your scripts with a tag: A deferred script has many useful properties: It does not block the browser from rendering content. Deferred scripts...
...can query the entire DOM tree with querySelector() and friends. document.readyState is 'interactive'. Deferred scripts will run before the DOMContentLoaded event. That means if your code waits to initialize until...
...not necessary to add a version constraint next to your gems in the Gemfile. Since all versions are saved in the Gemfile.lock, everyone running bundle install will get exactly the...
...You are not checking in the Gemfile.lock into the version control (not recommended) A specific gem has a bug in a more recent version (adding a comment for the reason...
When you send automated emails from a noreply@-address, and the recipient has an out of office enabled, the autoreply bounces and they get an additional email with an error...
...To prevent the recipient's auto-response and the following error message you can set the email header Auto-Submitted: auto-generated in your mailer, for example like this:
Ubuntu 18.04 uses systemd to manage services. There are basically two commands for listing all services and manipulating the state of a certain service: service and systemctl: service manages System...
...which system V init scripts are available and running / not running, you can use service --status-all: >service --status-all [ + ] acpid [ - ] alsa-utils [ - ] anacron [ + ] apache-htcacheclean [ - ] apache2 [ + ] apparmor [ + ] apport
By default, Devise sends all emails synchronously with deliver_now. To change that, Devise's readme suggests overwriting the send_devise_notification method like this: class User def send_devise...
...notification(notification, *args) devise_mailer.send(notification, self, *args).deliver_later end end However, there is one problem: When deliver_later enqueues the mail with ActiveJob, the job arguments are logged. In...
The change_column method for rails migrations support casting with a custom SQL statement. This allows us to change a column type and keep the former content as the new...
...number, 'int USING CAST(rating AS int)' end end Warning This migration's rollback strategy will fail, if any existing entry can't be casted. This is likely to happen...
When your public-facing application has a longer downtime for server maintenance or long migrations, it's nice to setup a maintenance page to inform your users. When delivering the...
...maintenance page, be very careful to send the correct HTTP status code. Sending the wrong status code might get you kicked out of Google, or undo years of SEO work...
There is a practical short list for valid/invalid example email addresses - Thanks to Florian L.! The definition for valid emails (RFC 5322) can be unhandy for some reasons, though.
...provides a built-in email regex URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP. That's the best solution to work with. /\A[a-zA-Z0-9.!\#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0...
...yml files. You may override those application-wide error messages using model or attribute scope like this: en: activerecord: errors: messages: invalid: is invalid # used for any invalid attribute in...
If you migrate a Rails application from Sprockets to Webpack(er), you can either transpile your CoffeeScript files to JavaScript or integrate a CoffeeScript compiler to your new process. This...
...to the global namespace, define them on window directly: -class @User +class window.User Replace Sprocket's require statement with Webpacker's import statement to load dependencies. -#= require ./person +import './person...
To work with other type of nodes (like text, comment or CDATA sections) you need to: Retrieve child nodes contents() (which behaves like children() except that it returns...
...element and returns an array of all child nodes that are text nodes: function selectTextNodes($container) { return $container.contents().filter(function() { return this.nodeType === 3; }); } Also check out this list of existing...
Download buttons can be difficult to test, especially with Selenium. Depending on browser, user settings and response headers, one of three things can happen: The browser shows a "Save as...
...dialog. Since it is a modal dialog, we can no longer communicate with the browser through Selenium. The browser automatically downloads the file without prompting the user. For the test...
Compiling Sass is probably the slowest part of your build, so this is worth a try if you're using Sass...
...If you're using the sass npm package to compile your SASS/SCSS, consider switching to sass-embedded. It should be a drop-in replacement in a large app and it...
When using tmux, selecting and copying multiple lines of text can be a hassle, especially when using splits (highlighting lines will cross pane borders, copying contents from the other pane...
...too) and when the user wishes to copy (thus, select) lines that have already scrolled out of the viewport in the current pane. One idea would be to enable mouse...
...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...
By activating strict_loading you force developers to address n+1 queries by preloading all associations used in the index view. Using an association that is not preloaded will raise...
...an ActiveRecord::StrictLoadingViolationError. I think it's a good default to activate strict_loading in your controllers' #index actions. This way, when a change introduces an n+1 query, your...
...much faster than the configured up.form.config.observeDelay. Therefore, it may happen that you already entered something into the next field before unpoly updates that field with a server response, discarding your...
The steps I wait for active ajax requests to complete (if configured) and capybara-lockstep can catch some of these cases, but not all. Both of these only wait...
RubyMine has a collaboration feature called "Code With Me". Using it, you can invite someone into your local editor to work together. This is nicer to the eyes and much...
...more powerful than sharing code through some video chat. How to Getting started is really simple: Click the "add person" icon in the top-right editor corner (or hit Ctrl...
...ZIP archive, you basically have two options: Write a ZIP file to disk and send it as a download to the user. Generate a ZIP archive on the fly while...
...streaming it in chunks to the user. This card is about option 2, and it is actually fairly easy to set up. We are using this to generate ZIP archives...
We use foreman to start all necessary processes for an application, which are declared in a Procfile. This is very convenient, but the outputs of all processes get merged together...
...Especially while debugging you might not want other processes to flood your screen with their log messages. The following setup allows you to start Terminator in a split view with...