...alias such as this to your ~/.bashrc: alias recent-branch="git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short)' refs/heads/ | fzf | sed 's/\* //g' | xargs -I '{}' git checkout {}"

Now whenever you want to switch back and forth between your most recent branches, type recent-branch, select one and press enter...

Angular directives with isolate scopes have three different variable binding strategies, of which one is =. Example: # HTML # Coffeescript @app.directive 'panel', -> scope: evaluated: '=value' bound: '=twoway' link: -> scope.evaluated # = false scope.bound = 'foo...

...bound with = (value, twoway) have their value evaluated as Angular expression in the parent scope's context and have the result assigned to the corresponding scope variable (evaluated, bound). It...

You can use three different versions of the regular expression syntax in grep: basic: -G extended: -E(POSIX) perl: -P (PCRE) Difference between basic and extended: In basic regular expressions...

...the meta-characters '?', '+', '{', '|', '(', and ')' loose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions '?', '+', '{', '|', '(', and ')'. Difference between extended (POSIX) and perl (PCRE): E.g. \d is not supported in POSIX.

If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low. Also, Skype may be changing your mixer levels.

...proper recording volume Open your mixer software (run pavucontrol). Switch to input devices. If you have more than one recording device, find the correct one. Make a test call to...

The need for clearfix hacks has been greatly reduced since we could layout with Flexbox or CSS Grid. However, when you do need a clearfix, there's no reason to...

...hack anymore. You can just give the clearing container display: flow-root. This is supported by all browsers except IE11...

RubyMine offers you to exclude directories from search, meaning faster search results and less "noise" in the list of result. Right-click a folder in your project tree and click...

...and other directories that you don't need to access during development and whose search results are irrelevant. They won't be deleted but simply ignored when searching across a...

Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way around unicode and fancy characters...

...Examples for stringex's String#to_url method: # A simple prelude "simple English".to_url => "simple-english" "it's nothing at all".to_url => "its-nothing-at-all"

Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found for the gem that ran lovely without sudo.

...are installed to /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin, which is not in sudo’s PATH. Unfortunately, you can’t change the path, since sudo for Ubuntu is compiled with the --with-secure-path option...

...check checkboxes. But there's one problem, if you want to test a custom styled checkbox, which hides its -Tag: The methods cannot (un)check checkboxes without an visible .

...error message will be something like: Unable to find visible checkbox "Some label" that is not disabled Solution 1 Use the keyword argument allow_label_click: true within the method...

...your HTTP request with curl, you can use the -w (--write-out) option: curl --silent -o /dev/null -w "%{time_connect};%{time_starttransfer};%{time_total};%{time_appconnect};%{time_pretransfer}\n...

...With -w you can make curl display informations for your HTTP request. As seen in the example above you can e.g. output this in a CSV format for further analysis...

Sometimes, the rails dev server doesn't terminate properly. This can for example happen when the dev server runs in a RubyMine terminal. When this happens, the old dev server...

...blocks port 3000, so when you try to start a new server, you get the error: Address already in use - bind(2) for "127.0.0.1" port 3000 (Errno::EADDRINUSE)

...filled out at the same time, there is no built-in validation. I've seen different solutions in the wild, each with different downsides: Private method referenced via validate: works...

...name, :nickname, xor_presence: true end Validator Here is the validator class; put it somewhere in your project. class XorPresenceValidator < ActiveModel::Validator def initialize(options) @attributes = Array.wrap(options[:attributes]).freeze...

...have multiple exported resources that are identical. There are nodes that provide the same services for failover reasons. It is likely to have duplicate resources, when exporting nagios_check from...

...everything is fine. But when it comes to realizing the resources on the monitoring server, the puppetrun will fail due to the duplicate addresses. So how to mitigate this issue...

...is edited by WSYIWYG-Editor but want some length checking nevertheless, you need to strip all tags and then the special characters: def hard_sanitize(text) ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags(text...

...gsub(/[^[:word:]]+/, " ") end :001 > hard_sanitize("This is beautiful markup ") => "This is beautiful markup" If you allready have nokogiri on board, you can use that as well, though it has...

...when you work for clients from Europe or the US, there are two dominantish standards you should know about. Each of these has subtle differences. ISO 8601 This is adhered...

...to by most European countries. Weeks start on Monday and end on Sunday. To get the number of the weekday in Ruby as defined by ISO 8601, use Date#cwday...

It's not possible to change the bwlimit of Proxmox storages via the Web-UI (at least in Proxmox 7.x). To change the bwlimit you need to use the...

...pvesm command and specify the limit for the desired category. For example to increase the bwlimit for migrations: pvesm set $NAME_OF_STORAGE --bwlimit migration=$INTEGER_LIMIT # example

Delegating methods to other objects is often helpful but the syntax of both def_delegators and def_delegator is a complete mess that makes your code hard to read.

...ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :topic def_delegators :topic, :title, :category end Here, we can say Post.new.title and actually read title from the Post's Topic object. Because of what we...

If you want to to create maps within SASS/SCSS-files, it normally works like this: $some-map: (key1: value1, key2: value2) However, some maps can get big really fast, if they...

...since 2011 and it hasn't been resolved since then. Writing a map likes this: $some-map: ( key1: value1, key2: value2 ) confuses the SASS-parser and you will get an...

The SQL code generated by Graticule's spherical distance computation is insufficient and can lead to NULL distances in edge cases. The reason for this is that MySQL is performing...

...several sine and cosine computations which can result in slight rounding errors -- which is usually okay. Rarely, though, for the exact center of the given circle, it is then asked...

Given those modules: module A def foo; end def bar; end end module B end When you want to call...

Sometimes it is useful to define a named scope by implementing a static method with the scope's name on the scoped class. For instance, when a method should decide...

...which existing scope should be the next link in the scope chain. Take this class for example: class Meal < ActiveRecord::Base named_scope :for_date, lambda { |date| :conditions => { :date => date...

SVG files are often much larger than necessary, containing comments, metadata, hidden elements etc. Optimize them with this tool. Web UI: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ Binary: https://github.com/svg/svgo

...for a properly scaling SVG, you need to keep the viewBox attribute. There's an option --disable=removeViewBox for this...

...MySQL and you know the "error" is okay (e.g. you've executed the same statement at the same time on 2 masters which sync each other), you can skip this...

...error and continue with the replication without having to set up the slave from the ground up. stop slave; set global sql_slave_skip_counter = 1; start slave;