Stepping forward from JavaScript Basics, the goal of this card is for you to be able to read and write...
A common task in web applications is to add client-side JavaScript behavior to existing HTML elements.
Software engineering principles Read about the following software engineering principles and code smells: Single Responsibility Principle Law of Demeter
Jasmine comes with two matchers that test for equality. The first is toBe: expect(first).toBe(second) toBe passes when...
The migration DSL now supports adding and removing foreign keys. They are dumped to schema.rb as well. At this time...
tl;dr: Use event.currentTarget unless you are absolutely certain that you need event.target. Since it hasn't been written down...
The team is responsible for building great software—that’s it. It’s the only thing the team is responsible...
Your after_commit callbacks will not know about changes, as Rails discards them when committing. The linked article shows a...
iPads will not trigger click events for all elements. You can fix that, but you don't want to know...
Running projects parallel makes some trouble with PDF generation. Use geordi rspec spec to force sequential tests for the whole...
If you see a stacktrace beginning with lines like this: E, [2015-07-16T09:23:10.896146 #23308] ERROR -- : app...
Sometimes you need to run background jobs that you can't make important guarantees about - they may run out of...
As developers we are dealing with many tasks every week. We need a system to organize ourselves. Goals After completing...
Understand the differences between git diff and git diff --staged (or git diff --cached) Understand the difference between git...
Get an idea of the varying support for HTML/CSS/JavaScript features in different browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Edge...
Learn Enough Command Line to be Dangerous (it's in our library => Google Drive) CLI tricks every developer should...
Action Mailer Basics and Previews Chapter "Task H1: Sending Mail" from Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2 (in our...
Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for...
Understand what Memoization is and when it can be useful. Understand the @variable ||= computation pattern. Learn how to use...
In this card we will learn to write code that scales with a large number of database records. We will...
CSS (+ some Javascript) framework, implementing Google's material design for static web pages. Can be used for plain websites without...
Read the following chapters from The Pragmatic Programmer, anniversary edition (in our library): Chapter 1, Topic 3: Software Entropy...
JavaScript is a scripting language supported by all browsers. Browsers don't speak Ruby, so if we want to implement...
Understand at least the following CSS concepts: Classes Selecting elements for styling Basic styling (color, typography, spacing)