The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column: User.find_by_anything('carla') User.find_by_anything('email@domain.de') User.find_by_anything(10023)
User.find_by_anything!('carla') Boolean and binary columns are excluded from the search because that would be crazy. I recommend copying the attachment to features/support/find_by_anything.rb, since it is...
}) Example case I had an Unpoly compiler for a tab navigation, which sets an -active class per default to the first tab link and removes it from all...
...other tab links. If another tab link is clicked, the -active class switches to the clicked link. In a Jasmine spec I wanted to test this behaviour. Unpoly's up.hello...
...animate HTML elements using the Web Animation API's method .animate(keyframes, options) (which seems to be Baseline for all browsers since 2022). const fadeIn = [{ opacity: 0 }, { opacity: 1 }] // this...
// the animation object can be used for things like querying timings or state or `pause`, `cancel` the animation animation.pause() animation.play() await animation.finished // do other stuff Even though play...
Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some do not. The cleanest way to have consistent colors across browsers is to convert all your images to...
...a standard color profile, strip the image's original profile and attach the standard profile. If you can't be bothered to convert color profiles, a quicker (but less effective...
To return non-HTML responses (like XLS spreadsheets), we usually use the respond_to do |format| format.xls do # send spreadsheet end end This is often, but not always the same...
...one format checks for authorization and the other doesn't. params[:format] is only set when a user explicitly puts a .xls at the end of the URL. The format.xls...
Rails offers several ways to remove records. They differ in whether they instantiate records, fire callbacks (including dependent: associations) and how they manage relation state afterward. destroy_all
# ActiveRecord::Relation def destroy_all records.each(&:destroy).tap { reset } end records evaluates SQL, caches result .each(&:destroy) iterates the cached Array, returns it .tap { reset } calls Relation#reset...
If you want to play music or sounds from a browser, your choice is to use either Flash or the new tag in HTML5. Each method has issues, but depending...
Can play MP3s or Wave files. Cannot play OGG Vorbis audio. Cannot reliably seek to a given position when playing VBR-encoded MP3s. HTML5 audio Is the future, but...
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We're always striving towards keeping our website's JavaScript as small as possible. If you're using webpack(er), you can use the webpack-bundle-analyzer plugin to get...
...a good overview, which of your JavaScript modules take up how much space, and where you can optimize. To use it, add it via npm or yarn yarn add webpack...
Looking at the source code of the validates_numericality_of validator, it becomes clear that it converts the attribute in question to either an integer or float: if configuration[:only...
...any of your users as this is only broken in the most extreme case shown above...
...had worked fine just a few weeks ago and there had been no changes since. Long story short: The browserslist database was simply outdated and the project's browserslist config...
...specifies "last 2 years" -- which no longer resolved to any known browsers, because the package version was older than 2 years. So, the fix is to just upgrade that package...
...on a very good network connection. To test how your application behaves on a slow network (e.g. mobile), you can simulate limited bandwidth. Chrome Open the dev tools (Ctrl+Shift...
...I or F12) and switch to the "Network" tab In the row below the dev tool tabs, there's a throttling dropdown which reads "Online" by default. Inside the dropdown...
Tested on Ubunut 22.04 1. Opener script Create a file ~/.local/bin/coverage_zip_opener with: #!/bin/bash tmp_folder="/tmp/coverage-report-opener" if [ -z "$1" ] then echo "Usage: coverage_zip_opener [filename]" exit -1 fi
index_filename=$(find /tmp/coverage-report-opener -name "index.html" | awk '{ print length, $0 }' | sort -n -s | cut -d" " -f2- | head -1) if [ -z "$index_filename" ] then echo "No index file...
...investigate by running that example again using rspec . However, this does not work with shared examples, since Rspec doesn't know in which context the shared example should be run...
...But there is a different way: You can run the shared example using the -e, --example option. It takes a string value and runs all scenarios containing that substring in...
...want some output. In Rails > 3.1 you have two methods at hand: announce and say_with_time. In the migration: class AddUserToken < ActiveRecord::Migration class User < ActiveRecod::Base; end
add_column :users, :token, :string announce "now generating tokens" User.find_in_batches do |users| say_with_time "For users ##{users.first.id} to ##{users.last.id}" do users.each do |user| user.update_attribute :token...
$number = $length / 1px // => 13 Converting a unit the result of an addition or subtraction between two numbers of different units is expressed in the first member’s unit
...the desired unit: $duration: .21s $duration-in-milliseconds: 0ms + $duration // => 210ms An example is storing a transition duration as CSS custom property to read it from Javascript. By converting the...
Whenever you have to deal with randomness in a jasmine test there are some spy strategies to help you out! Let's say we have a method Random.shuffle(array) to...
...shuffle an array randomly and a class that uses shuffle within the constructor. returnValue & returnValues it('shuffles the array', () => { spyOn(Random, 'shuffle').and.returnValue([3, 2, 1])
...binary file. This method might be telling the truth most of the time. But sometimes it doesn't, and that's what causes pain. The method is defined as follows...
...not guaranteed to be 100% accurate. It performs a "best guess" based # on a simple test of the first +File.blksize+ characters. # # Example: # # File.binary?('somefile.exe') # => true # File.binary?('somefile.txt') # => false #--
...or every even-numbered item. However, :nth-child can do more. In modern CSS specifications (Level 4), there’s an additional feature that lets you use :nth-child in combination...
...with a list of css selectors. This way, you can target the nth-child within a subset of siblings matching a selector. For example: .container .foo %span.my-selector .bar
...default order" of rows in database tables. For instance, when you paginate a result set: When using LIMIT, it is important to use an ORDER BY clause that constrains the...
...result rows into a unique order. Otherwise you will get an unpredictable subset of the query's rows. You might be asking for the tenth through twentieth rows, but tenth...
wkhtmltopdf is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. Please consider switching to another tool We can install wkhtmltopdf on your appserver if you need to generate PDF files...
wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf wkhtmltopdf/packaging Please note: We do not compile the package ourselves on the server. Instead, we install the most recent available version of the prebuilt package. Example:
I find it annoying to iterate on a spec that relies on a recorded VCR casette...
...You constantly have to remove the same YAMLs file before you can re-run that still-red test. With this little helper, you (or your coding agent) can do the...
PostgreSQL's Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can be used to extract sub-queries from bulky SQL statements into a temporary table to be referenced instead. This is most useful to...
...avoid ugly joins or sub-selects. CTEs can be used for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. Example (from the PostgreSQL docs): WITH regional_sales AS ( SELECT region, SUM(amount) AS...
...refactor later. Always add tests on whatever we work on. When you work on something, improve that part of the code. Make sure setup for a new developer is as...
...frictionless as possible (ideally it's bin/setup). Make sure deployment is as frictionless as possible. Setup failure notifications. Set aside some time every month to deal with the most frequent...