...like invoices/generated?number=123. This could be your (very careless) controller method: def generated send_file File.join(Rails.root, 'shared', 'invoices', params[:number]) end This allows your users not only to...
...files but also any files your application can read, like this: invoices/generated?number=../../../../../etc/passwd # => send_file '/etc/passwd' You do not want this. In most cases you should prefer a show...
...language when they visit the root path. Here is how to do it without a server-side component (like a Rails application). Use JavaScript's navigator.language (real browsers and IE11...
...following JavaScript will try to auto-detect a user's preferred language. It understands strings like like de_AT, and if the user prefers neither of your supported languages it...
If you want to expand your Areca Raid by swapping out the disks for larger ones you will need to do the following: Swap out all disks one by one...
...and wait until the syncronisation is finished in between. Reboot your server and enter the Raid Controller Configuration by pressing TAB at the right time. In the menu go the...
...dependencies and database types. Here's what Gemika can give your test's development setup (all features are opt-in): Test one codebase against multiple sets of gem dependency sets...
...currently MySQL or PostgreSQL). Compute a matrix of all possible dependency permutations (Ruby, gem set, database type). Manually exclude incompatible dependency permutations (e.g. Rails 5.0 does not work with Ruby...
The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use case, except for a few very rarely needed things. It...
...s not something you'll likely reach for on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis. The only thing you really need to know about it is what it does...
...common providers like the AWS one can quickly add up to a lot of storage space wasted. Each root module will download a copy of the same provider file. The...
...AWS provider is over 200 MB in size. To avoid creating multiple copies of the same file, you can use the Terraform Plugin Cache. Configuring the plugin cache:
In Capistrano 2, directories in shared_children used to be symlinked to the shared directory during the finalize_update task. # /lib/capistrano/recipes/deploy.rb _cset :shared_children, %w(public/system log tmp/pids) # ... task :finalize...
...update, :except => { :no_release => true } do # ... shared_children.map do |d| run "ln -s #{shared_path}/#{d.split('/').last} #{latest_release}/#{d}" # <-- symlinks only the last segment here end # ... end This would symlink...
...why it’s important to find a way to order and maintain your routes. See: Clean your Rails routes: grouping Sometimes the routes.rb grows very fast and each line adds...
...confusion to it. Maybe it is time for a new approach. The quoted article suggests to split up your routes.rb into small partials to keep it clean. For example you...
...could also use Haml instead. Example Consider the following helper. def greeting message = ''.html_safe message << 'Welcome to ' message << content_tag(:span, Rails.env, class: 'greeting--location') content_tag :div, message...
...That looks clumsy and is hard to read. Wouldn't it be nicer to say something like this? def greeting render_haml <<-HAML .greeting Welcome to %span.greeting--location = Rails.env
You can use attribute? as shorthanded version of attribute.present?, except for numeric attributes and associations. Technical Details attribute? is generated for all attributes and not only for boolean...
...These methods are using #query_attribute under the hood. For more details you can see ActiveRecord::AttributeMethods::Query. In most circumstances query_attribute is working like attribute.present?. If your attribute...
...that whenever you are using those values for database interaction, you'll end up scoping on the wrong records since the database representation of these dates is not converted to...
Use form models to handle this problem Or soften the validation to validates_presence_of :parent Usually you would validate presence of parent object id, like in this...
validates_presence_of :parent_id # <- end With the parent already persisted creating nesteds still works fine. But one will encounter a 'parent id missing' error on creating a parent...
...You can add other AWS account depending files like .fog or .guignol.yml too. Create symlinks for some config files like .aws_credentials and .fog: ln -s ~/.aws/.aws_credentials ~/.aws_credentials
...export EC2_CERT=~/.aws/cert-ec2.pem export AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE=~/.aws/aws-credentials Perhaps you also want to set a default region and the JAVA_HOME: export EC2_REGION=eu-west-1
Say you have an RGBA color that you need as a non-transparent color because of reasons. Basically, this is possible. Just understand that you will convert your RGBA color...
...your background is white, so you'll use #fff as that for examples below. Simple approach When your know the RGBA color's base RGB color (e.g. your brand color...
In specs, the session never persists but is always a new object for each request. Data put into the session in a previous request is lost. Here is how to...
...circumvent that. What's going on? You are making ActionController::TestRequests in your specs, and their #initialize method does this: self.session = TestSession.new This means that each time you say something...
...re looking for is not present, first try upgrading ruby-build. If it's still missing, open a request on the ruby-build issue tracker: https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build/issues
Barby is a great Ruby gem to generate barcodes of all different sorts. It includes support for QR codes via rQRCode; if you need to render only QR codes, you...
>> Barby::Code128.new('Hello Universe').to_image.to_data_url => "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAA..." For super-crisp barcodes, render them as SVG. Printing images usually causes some level of blur...
...should), the host's IP address is: 10.0.2.2 You'll need it to access shared folders or your host's web server when testing pages in IE.
When you need to check a value for presence, don't rely on JavaScript since it considers 0 or "0" false. Also don't rely on LoDash's _.isEmpty:
While the name implies that it's meant only for collections, you probably still want something like isBlank or isPresent that return true/false for objects humans would normally consider...
Accessing pseudo elements via JavaScript or jQuery is often painful/impossible. However, accessing their styles is fairly simple. Using getComputedStyle First, find the element in question. let element = document.querySelector('.my-element...
...s getComputedStyle. It takes an optional 2nd argument to filter for pseudo elements. let style = window.getComputedStyle(element, '::before') let color = style.getPropertyValue('background-color') The returned color will be a string...
...your remote database, you might not want it to dump each time you deploy (say, you're experimenting with staging and don't want ten dumps an hour). How to...
...skip dump creation: Capistrano 2 In your Capistrano file: before 'deploy:update_code', 'db:dump' unless fetch(:skip_dump, false) The second parameter of fetch sets a default value if...
...up little more than one extra line in the output of ps. On a server I want to get informed if there are zombie processes and track them with a...
...two choices, fix it or kill it. In this case it's no critical service and I can just restart it...
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your tests as described in their documentation. When sending a message...
...body, the savon mock object requires a message to be set, like this: savon.expects(:action_name).with(message: { user_id: 123 }).returns(' ') If you want to stub only the returned...
In RubyMine folders can be excluded from search, navigation etc. by marking it as excluded. You might sometimes wish to exclude single files, too. An example could be .byebug_history...
...which is located in the project root directory. Single files can be excluded by pattern in the Settings: In the Settings/Preferences dialog Ctrl+Alt+S, go to Project structure