...multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format strings, wrong formats and unnecessary introduction of new formats. to_fs also supports to refer to...

...those formats by name e.g. to_formatted_s(:iso_8601) or to_formatted_s(:short). to_fs is an alias for to_formatted_s. Those names are defined in Time...

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Git is our version control system. Goals Understand why we use git. Learn how to work with your local repository: Create a local repository (git init) Commit changes (git add...

See the history (git log) See changes (git diff) Work with branches Create new ones: git switch --create or git checkout -b. Switch to existing branches: git switch...

When you have string contents (e.g. a generated binary stream, or data from a remote source) that you want to store as a file using Carrierwave, here is a simple...

While you could write your string to a file and pass that file to Carrierwave, why even bother? You already have your string (or stream). However, a plain StringIO...

...with additional margin towards their container. Starting with version 121, Chrome now also supports the spec-compliant properties scrollbar-width and scrollbar-color. These allow less styling. You may only...

...track and thumb colors, and a non-specific width like auto, thin, or none. .example { scrollbar-width: thin; scrollbar-color: blue lightblue; } Styling the -webkit-scrollbar-* pseudo elements is still...

Somewhat regularly, you will need to filter a list down to some items and then map them to another value. You can of course chain map and compact, or select/filter...

...if i.even? }.compact => [4, 8, 12] or >> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].select(&:even?).map { |i| i * 2 } => [4, 8, 12] you can just do...

JavaScript objects can have getter and setter functions that are called when a property is read from or written to. For example, if you'd like an object that has...

...person.firstName and person.lastName: var person = { firstName: 'Guybrush', lastName: 'Threepwood', get fullName() { return this.firstName + " " + this.lastName; }, set fullName(name) { var parts = name.split(" "); this.firstName = parts[0]; this.lastName = parts[1]; } }; The code below shows...

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Version 3.7.0 broke some things in complex forms. Sorry for that. Concurrent user input is hard. 3.7.1 This change fixes two regressions for form field watchers, introduced by 3.7.0:

...a validation for a fragment while a validation request for the same target is still loading. Validations no longer throw an error if a targeted fragment is destroyed while a...

This raises "Could not find first Keyword": describe Keyword do it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:text) } end Do this instead...

...bodies with a maximum of 4096 characters. You can work around that limit by splitting the text into smaller fragments and stitch together the resulting mp3 files with a CLI...

...tool like mp3wrap or ffmpeg. Example Ruby Implementation Usage input_text = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua...

...a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one website, maybe you've even used its Javascript API to implement...

...configurable without changing anything in the application's code base (and much more beyond, see below). Only prefer GTM if the customer requests it, or if he is updating his...

Ctrl + Alt + S > search "rubocop on save" Under "Inspections", check the highlighted box on rubocop -a Caveat: This adds a little time overhead to saving. When you're editing many...

First we export the checks on the nodes we want to monitor: @@nagios_service { “check_unicorns-${::hostname}”: host_name => $::hostname, service_description => ‘Unicorn Status’, check_command => ‘check_unicorn-${::hostname...

...Then we realize the resources on the Nagios server Nagios_service <<| |>> Now it is quite easy to create new monitoring checks with Puppet. With the ease of creating monitoring checks...

In order to have monitoring for Sidekiq (like queue sizes, last run of Sidekiq) your application should have a monitoring route which returns a json looking like this: { "sidekiq": {

...queue_sizes": { "dead": 0, "retries": 0, "monitoring": 0, "low_priority": 0, "mails": 0, "default": 0, "elasticsearch": 0, "high_priority": 0, "file_upload": 0, "scheduled": 0 }, "active_workers": 0 }, "timestamps": {

Plot graphs in Ruby WebGraphviz renders in your browser via JavaScript (to store the rendered graph, extract the SVG using your browser's DOM inspector) GraphViz with DOT: Online...

...graphviz.christine.website/ or offline https://makandracards.com/makandra/1589-auto-generate-state_machine-graphs-as-png-images Balsamiq Draw.io Excalidraw Asciiflow Google Presentation Egon.io: Domain storytelling with replay functionality (good to visualize and present flows) Gnuplot Ruby Bindings: Especially for more...

Native promises have no methods to inspect their state. You can use the promiseState function below to check whether a promise is fulfilled, rejected or still pending: promiseState(promise, function...

// `state` now either "pending", "fulfilled" or "rejected" }); Note that the callback passed to promiseState will be called asynchronously in the next microtask. Usage example: Tests Note Since this card...

...to run JS tests. Given a Vue project that uses Jest (via vue-cli-service) with the following package.json: { "scripts": { "test": "vue-cli-service test:unit --testMatch='**/tests/**/*.test.js' --watch...

...allows us to run Jest tests with yarn test. The only downside of this setup is that debugger statements are ignored with the CLI approach - there are no Browser Devtools...

...in "Comment" with: """ This is a long comment. With multiple lines. And paragraphs. """ The step definition is part of the spreewald gem

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While the Software Design Basics card tried to make a point about writing self explanatory code, it's still essential for every application to maintain a good documentation. The...

...README file is essential for fellow engineers to get started quickly, as it contains documentation of all major moving parts of the given app. Resources README Driven Development

Note: You won't need this for single lines of text. In this case it is better to just use the text-overflow property: Use CSS "text-overflow" to truncate...

...use -webkit-line-clamp in your CSS/SASS to natively render an ellipsis (...) after a specific amount of lines for a multi-line text in your HTML. Earlier, it was necessary...

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Goals After finishing this lesson you should be able to read and write simple Ruby programs. Gain an understanding of the following concepts: Working with basic datatypes: String, Integer...

Classes and inheritance The difference between class methods and instance methods (def self.method vs. def method) Modules and include Input and output Simple regular expressions Resources Tutorials

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jQuery's removeClass removes the given class string from an element collection. If you want to remove multiple/unknown classes matching a given pattern, you can do that. For example, consider...

...node for the following HTML. We'll reference it by $element below. Option A: Selecting classes, then removing them You can iterate over existing classes, and select matching ones. The...

A recent patch level Ruby update caused troubles to some of us as applications started to complain about incompatible gem versions. I'll try to explain how the faulty state...

...care of a few things: The new Ruby version is installed The Bundler version stated in the Gemfile.lock is installed Geordi is installed (for database dumps) The gems of the...

When giving a presentation where you do some coding, the font size you usually use is probably a bit too small and makes code hard to read for users on...

...smaller screens or low-bandwidth connections when the image quality is lower. Here are two solutions. Presentation Mode RubyMine offers a "Presentation Mode" which you can use. Simply navigate to...

...a new callback to your model that (e.g.) caches some data when it is saved. Now you need to run that callback for the 10000 existing records in the production...

Write a clever migration, possibly by embedding the model into the migration script. Open the Rails console after deployment and re-save every single record. You should probably...