In Rails, we usually have a mailer setup like this: class MyMailer < ActionMailer::Base def newsletter mail to: 'receiver@host.tld', from: 'sender@host.tld', subject: 'My mail' end end If you want to...
mail = MyMailer.newsletter File.open('my_mail.eml', 'w') { |file| file.write(mail.to_s) } Now, close the rails console and preview the mail: xdg-open my_mail.eml There is not much magic in this...
# Redis db#1 is used for development. db_number = 1 if rails_env == 'test' normalized_test_number = [ENV['TEST_ENV_NUMBER'].to_i, 1].max db_number += normalized...
end db_number end def port case rails_env when 'staging' # when 'production' # else 6379 # default Redis port end end def rails_env defined?(Rails) ? Rails.env : ENV['RAILS...
...stack of tools. Start this card by skimming over the linked resource. Discussion Growing Rails applications in practice Read the following chapters from our book Growing Rails Applications in Practice...
...On following fashions Surviving the upgrade pace of Rails Owning your stack Discuss each chapter with your mentor. The Swinging Pendulum The XKCD about the sandboxing cycle is quite on...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is unnecessarily verbose. When we take over Rails projects from other...
...We prefer a different approach. We believe that among all the classes in a Rails project, controllers are some of the hardest to test and understand and should receive special...
In modern Rails versions you can also use ActiveRecord's pluck method. User.active.pluck(:id) => [1, 5, 23, 42] If you are plucking from the id column in particular you can...
...not the resulting array). Article.distinct.pluck(:state) # SELECT DISTINCT state FROM articles => ['draft', 'published'] In Rails 3 and 4 you must use uniq instead of distinct: Article.uniq.pluck(:state) # SELECT DISTINCT state...
...is rake good for? Take a look at some of the Rake tasks that Rails gives you (rake -T within a Rails project) Find the code that defines the rake...
...stats task in the Rails gems What are some ways how a Rake task can execute another task? What does it mean if a Rake task "depends" on another task...
etag { current_user&.id } etag { current_user&.updated_at } end Under the hood, Rails generates an ETag header value like W/"f14ce3710a2a3187802cadc7e0c8ea99". In doing so, all objects from that...
...etag { current_user&.updated_at&.to_f } end You might even want to patch Rails' etagging logic so you don't have to remember doing that. Here you go:
...for every little thing. Jasmine is a purely client-side tool. It cannot ask Rails to render a view or access the database. Any HTTP calls must be mocked.
Tip Create the required DOM directly from your Jasmine spec. You cannot ask Rails to render a view. You can use Element#dispatchEvent() to emit events on a DOM...
...point over a separate ClassMethods module inside of your module. If you are using Rails (or only ActiveSupport), you may also use ActiveSupport::Concern which facilitates this for you.
...taken in chronological order, you get this: Singleton class Class Included modules Superclass(es) Rails 5 introduced prepended modules which allow you to patch methods in a class in a...
...already shipping as custom elements For example Trix from Basecamp (integrated as ActionText in Rails 6). By choosing custom elements as their delivery method, they work in all JavaScript frameworks...
...alotting time. This is a refactoring similar to removing resource_controller (but not a Rails upgrade). Grep for $. This will show you all the affected lines of code. Refactor functions...
Zeitwerk is the new autoloader of Rails. It is mandatory starting with Rails 7.0. Sometimes, a model needs to know all its descendants. They might be organized in a subdirectory...
...needs to iterate all design subclasses. To eager load all designs, use this line: Rails.autoloaders.main.eager_load_dir(Rails.root.join 'app/models/design') Make sure that app/models/design.rb is not required manually before instructing Rails...
...you're done, check your changes by running rake routes. handle_unverified_request When Rails gets a request with wrong/missing CSRF-Token, it calls ApplicationController#handle_unverified_request and continues...
...processing the request!. Per default, the method only resets the Rails session, but since Clearance doesn't store its session there, you should delete the remember_token cookie. With Clearance...
While most Rails Apps are tied to at least one external REST API, machine-to-machine communication via GraphQL is less commonly seen. In this card, I'd like to...
...w[errors]) unless response.status.ok? parsed_response end def client headers = { 'Content-Type' => 'application/json', 'Authorization' => Rails.application.secrets.fetch(:linear_api_key), } HTTP.headers(headers) end end Writing data (Mutation) Performing GraphQL mutations is equally...
...you're not familiar with the pattern, read or re-read "New rules for Rails" from Growing Rails Applications in Practice (in our library) How to navigate between indexes, show...
...creation if you're on a POSIX system. If you are using Ruby on Rails, a use case / implementation might look like Rails 3: Sending tempfiles for download.
Rails 6 includes a WYSIWYG editor, Action Text. It works out of the box quite well, but chances are that you want to add some custom functionality. This card contains...
...some tips how to achieve this. Setup Basically, follow the guide in the Rails documentation. The automated script may not work with the way webpacker is configured in your project...
...users.map { |user| [user.id, user.name] }.to_h { 1 => "Alice", 2 => "Bob" } Enumerable#index_by (any Rails version) users = User.all users_by_id = users.index_by(&:id) { 1 => #<User id: 1, name: "Alice...
...User id: 1, name: "Alice">], "Bob" => [#<User id: 2, name: "Bob">] } Enumerable#index_with (Rails 6+) To generate a hash where array elements become hash keys, and values are calculated...
...app/models/test.rb index eg3c1k1..843c0a2 31143 --- app/models/test.rb +++ app/models/test.rb @@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ module RoutingFilter path = Rails.root / 'app' + if true + + end + return path (1/1) Discard this hunk from worktree [y,n,q...
...your application perform with lots of data? Generate many records per table. Watch the Rails logs and query_diet to find areas of improvement. Reduce N+1 queries, preload associations...
Running rails server will start a local server that you can access via http://localhost:3000. When you are working on multiple web apps, they will likely set cookies with...
...define it in a single place so switching it out will be easy. Modern rails versions will block hosts other than localhost by default. Therefore create an entry in config/environments/development.rb...
...some cases, a viable workaround is to turn your images into inline attachments. Note Rails provides a simple mechanism to achieve this: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailer_basics.html#making-inline-attachments This documentation makes it look...
...It is recommended to watch for a feature flag, see below. return version unless Rails.config.feature_inline_email_images # `attachments` is provided by Rails, see the linked documentation above # URLs should...
content_type_1.match(/\Aimage\/(jpeg|png)\z/) # => nil content_type_2.match(/\Aimage\/(jpeg|png)\z/) # => Rails Newer Rails explicitly warns you, when you use ^ and $ in validations with a regular expression...
...the sudo password with johndoe ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL. # Run this script with e.g. `rails runner lib/scripts/benchmark.rb` require 'open3' # For debugging # Rails.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT) # ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new(STDOUT)
...feature-binaries commit id: "docs" commit id: "add binaries" type: HIGHLIGHT commit id: "init rails" You are now asked to split up the add binaries commit to one commit per...
...id: "echo binary" type: HIGHLIGHT commit id: "curl binary" type: HIGHLIGHT commit id: "init rails" Exercise 3: Rebase onto a diverged feature branch with merge conflicts %%{init: { 'gitGraph': { 'mainBranchName': 'master...