...the test, as if the callback function is not executed in the test. However, since the test does not fail, the method :my_method must have been called during the...
...where the method :my_method should be called This will execute the original implementation (see here...
...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...
...it should be easy to fix. If you don't want the default css shipped with Action Text, you can copy the stylesheet from basecamp's github into your project...
Boot partitions from installations prior to the 16.04 era are terribly small. When you install updates and encounter errors due to a full /boot partition, consider risizing it.
...can't do the steps described below, ask someone experienced to help you out. This has worked 100% so far. 1 out of 1 tries. ;) Scenario A: There is unassigned...
You have the following HTML structure:
If you want to run Javascript code whenever someone clicks on a ...
..., you can do this in three different ways: function code(event...
...alert("Someone clicked on .my-target!"); } document.addEventListener('click', function(event) { if (event.target.closest('.my-target')) { code(event) } }) document.querySelector('.container').addEventListener('click', function(event) { if (event.target.closest('.my-target')) { code(event) } })
This is a short overview of things that are required to upgrade a project from the Asset Pipeline to Webpacker. Expect this upgrade to take a few days even the...
Cleanup Remove all gems you used for assets and the Asset Pipeline itself, e.g. sass-rails, uglifier, autoprefixer-rails, sprockets-rails, jquery-rails, bootstrap-sass and many more.
In Rails 3.1+, instead of defining a separate up and down method you can define a single method change: class AddComparisonFieldsToReport < ActiveRecord::Migration def change add_column :reports, :compare, :boolean...
...update "UPDATE reports SET compare = #{quoted_false}" add_column :reports, :compare_start_date, :date add_column :reports, :compare_end_date, :date end end Migrating up works as expected:
...use heredoc to avoid endlessly long lines of code that nobody can read. Heredoc strings preserve linebreaks and can be used like this: def long_message puts(<<-EOT)
...a very long message... Sincerely, foobear EOT end <<-EOT will be somewhat of a placeholder: anything you write in the line after you used it will be its value until...
...s possible you get this "error" message: *** [err :: example.com] There are no Phusion Passenger-served applications running whose paths begin with '/var/www/example.com'. *** [err :: example.com] This is just because there were...
...no running passenger process for this application on the server which could be restarted. It's not a real error. The application process will start if the first request for...
Update: This is now documented on Edgeguides Ruby on Rails: If you set the :validate option to true, then associated objects will be validated whenever you save this...
...default, this is false: associated objects will not be validated when this object is saved. Setup # post.rb class Post < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :attachment end # attachment.rb class Attachment < ActiveRecord::Base...
All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and browser restores, but is different per new tab/window (in contrast...
...to localStorage which is shared across all tabs). MDN says: The sessionStorage object is most useful for hanging on to temporary data that should be saved and restored if the...
...not possible to use variables in media queries with plain CSS. @media (max-width: var(--some-pixel-size)) {...
...} /* Does not work */ Postcss Plugin If you're using PostCSS to postprocess...
...your CSS, you can configure postcss-custom-media and add this feature: @custom-media --small-variable-name(max-width: 968px); @media (--small-variable-name) {...
Note The plugin does not...
...really want to get their arguments processable as keyword arguments. Don't change the syntax, or you'll experience pain. Always call super inside of your overridden #initialize method. A...
...things happen in the ActiveRecord world. Just let them happen, otherwise kittens will die somewhere. You don't want that. Example class Item < ActiveType::Object def initialize(attributes) super
For searching in large database tables we usually use PostgreSQL's fulltext search capabilities. While this works reasonably well for content primarily consisting of prose, it is not necessarily a...
...good solution for all use cases. The main issue is that it is only possible to search for prefixes of text tokens, which can potentially be unexpected for users.
When you want to filter records in a model where a string column roughly matches a given term, you can use PostgreSQL’s trigram similarity search. Writing a fuzzy query...
User.where("similarity(name, ?) > 0.3", "John") This finds all users where the name is similar to "John" with a similarity score above 0.3. You can tune the threshold:
...are usually believed to have worse performance than those defined via def. Hence, developers sometimes prefer using class_eval to define methods using def, like this: class_eval "def #{attribute...
...for_realsies?; do_things; end" You can benchmark methods defined like this and will see that those defined via def actually do perform better. Basically, it ranks like this:
...version understands? Did you double-check your @font-face declarations with all the hacky syntax that is required? Compare them with other declarations you find on the web.
...same name? This usually leads to trouble, but there are workarounds. Do IE's security settings prevent the download of webfonts? (see below) IE Security Settings can prevent font download...
...life as web developers we are constantly faced with technical problems that can be solved with a variety of (sometimes vastly different) technologies. Choosing the right tool for the tasks...
...is crucial for our mid- and long term success. Our technology radar card documents what we're currently investigating either to replace or introduce to our stack of tools. Start...
...main mechanisms for background processing are cronjobs (managed with whenever) job queues, usually with Sidekiq Learn about cronjobs Read HowTo: Add Jobs To cron Under Linux or UNIX? Understand how...
...the load of your application. Decide whether cronjobs should run on one or all servers Note We use the whenever to automatically rewrite the crontab when we deploy. You have...
...to the public (as it should be!), here's how to open a psql shell inside Kubernetes and connect to the database. Make sure to replace the variables appropriately.
...run postgresql-client \ --image=postgres \ --namespace=$NAMESPACE \ --stdin=true --tty=true \ --rm=true \ --env="PGPASSWORD=$PASSWORD_FOR_POSTGRES \ --command -- \ psql --host=$HOSTNAME_FOR_POSTGRES --username=$USERNAME_FOR_POSTGRES $DATABASE_FOR...
If you want to build a small CLI application, that supports more advanced inputs than gets, I recommend using the cli-ui gem. It's a small dependency-free library...
...that provides basic building blocks, like an interactive prompt: require "cli/ui" CLI::UI::StdoutRouter.enable puts CLI::UI.fmt "a small {{red:demo}}" # supports h, j, k, l, arrows and even filtering...
...window manager that provides neat features like automatic layouting of windows, good multi-display support with per display workspaces and more. Since it is only a window manager, you will...
...menus, automatic updates etc. Fortunately, you can run Awesome within MATE, by following these steps (tested on Ubuntu MATE 16.04): Awesome + MATE Create the following file at /usr/share/xsessions/Xsession.desktop: [Desktop Entry...
Select2 is a fantastic library for advanced dropdown boxes, but it depends on jQuery. Alternatives Tom Select There is a selectize.js fork called Tom Select. It is well tested, comes...
...with Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 4 and Bootstrap 5 styles and is easy to use. You might miss some advanced features. Known issues: Dynamic opt-groups in AJAX requests are not...
To set a cookie in your test browser for cucumber tests, you need to know which driver you are using. Use the step below according to your driver.
...to "([^\"]+)"$/ do |key, value| headers = {} Rack::Utils.set_cookie_header!(headers, key, value) cookie_string = headers['Set-Cookie'] Capybara.current_session.driver.browser.set_cookie(cookie_string) end Note that Rack::Utils is only used to...
Ever wondered how you can create a simple table output in bash? You can use the tool column for creating a simple table output. Column gives you the possibility to...
...same level. Pipe output to column -t (maybe configure the delimeter with -s) and see the magic happening. detailed example I needed to separate a list of databases and their...