The most common use case for Ruby's #collect is to call a method on each list element and collect...
The ancestry gem allows you to easily use tree structures in your Rails application. There is one somewhat unobvious pitfall to it: its way of applying the orphan_strategy which...
...might want to disallow destruction if there are any child nodes present. The restrict strategy does the trick but raises an exception when destroy is called: has_ancestry :orphan_strategy...
...to be defined ahead of your before block and can be different for individual sections. It works just like that: describe User do describe '#locked?' do before :each do subject.should...
...receive(:current_plan).and_return plan end context 'when expiring today' do let(:plan) { stub(:expiry => Date.today) } it 'should be false' do subject.should_not be_locked end end context 'when...
...be a quick fix for an existing app. It also ensures that future uploaders get safe-ish defaults when the developer forgets to define an allowlist for concrete uploaders (see...
...you can also go with this more relaxed CSP: Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self'; script-src 'none'; object-src 'none' While this does not fix users uploading executables etc...
Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this: >> Socket.gethostname => "happycat" That should work right away for your Rails application. For plain Ruby, you...
...first need to do: require 'socket' If you don't want to use Socket for some reason, you can still just use the hostname command, at least on non-Windows...
...full-app localization before and assign an hour estimate to each of these points. Static text Static strings and template text in app must be translated: Screens, mailer templates, PDF...
...templates, helpers, sometimes models. Use the native Rails I18n API. Avoid Gettext if possible. Native I18n has good integration with Rails (you already have it!), but you need to come...
The Node Version Manager allows installing multiple NodeJS versions and switching between them. By default, it does not automatically switch versions when entering a directory that holds a .nvmrc file...
...COMMAND feature. So here is my take on it. Note that it is much shorter, it probably does a few less smart things, but has been working great for me...
When you regularly make use of Cucumber's "show me the page" step (or let pages pop up as errors occur), the capybara-20120326132013.html files will clutter up your Rails root...
To tell Capybara where it should save those files instead, put this into features/support/env.rb: Capybara.save_and_open_page_path = 'tmp/capybara...
The will_paginate gem will show a default of 30 records per page. If you want to test pagination in a Cucumber feature, you don't want to create...
...records just for that. Instead, you probably want to modify the number of items shown, by saying something like this: Given we paginate after 2 users Using the following step...
To find a hash key by it's value, i.e. reverse lookup, one can use Hash#key. It's available...
Sometimes you want git to ignore certain files that appear on your machine. You can do this in 3 ways: Per project, in the project's .gitignore file
Downsides of per-project .gitignore entries While it might be tempting to set it per project (other devs might benefit from it), you need to do it each...
...be answered with an empty response if the underlying content hasn't changed. This saves CPU time and reduces the bandwidth cost for a request/response exchange to about 1 KB...
...can be considered secure. Random masking of CSRF tokens was introduced to mitigate BREACH, a side-channel attack against HTTPS that was published in 2013. BREACH is pretty hard to...
Migrating data from a legacy into a new system can be a surprisingly large undertaking. We have done this a few times. While there are significant differences from project to...
...project, we do have a list of general suggestions. Before you start, talk to someone who has done it before, and read the following hints: Understand the old system
...have a README that gives the reader a quick overview of the project. Its size will vary as projects differ in complexity, but there should always be some introductory prose...
...for a developer to read when starting on it. Purpose That's already the main purpose of a project README: Give a new developer a quick overview of the project...
...response includes caching headers like Expires or Cache-Control, their validity depends on the server's Date header if present. Otherwise, the browser uses its local time. This can lead...
...for authentication. The cookie for this feature might include an Expires attribute, specifying its validity: Set-Cookie: remember_me=abc123; Expires=Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:00:00 GMT
To open a terminal quickly navigate to System → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts. There, click the "Run a terminal" row (It should be in the "Desktop" section) and press the keyboard shortcut...
...for Ubuntu's default terminal is gnome-terminal. Be aware that many programs use shortcuts of their own and you would not want to clash with those (like Ctrl+T...
You can make both mobile Chrome and mobile Safari display a native app install banner. The banner suggests that the user installs an app that is related to the current...
...page. It is shown in the phone's native UI. See attached animation. There is some fineprint you need to read to make this work (see below). References Android: Increasing...
Observed on Rails 2.3 and machinist 1.0.6 Like the title says, when you define the method empty? like in the following example, you may not longer use collection.make.
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...
TL;DR: Pannellum is a small (~56 kB, own WebGL renderer, no three.js) equirectangular panorama viewer. The npm package has no ES module export - importing it runs an IIFE that...
...assigns the API to window.pannellum. Bundle it statically, make sure the viewer's container gets a definite size, and allow blob: in your img-src CSP. Considered Photo Sphere Viewer...
...you have files in your .gitignore they won't be considered for changes, but still you might want to get rid of them, e.g. because they clutter your file system...
...While a regular git clean will ignore them as well, passing the -x switch changes that: git clean -x If you want to see what would happen first, make sure...
...toggle an outlining of HTML elements quickly. This helps greatly when you want to see the actual dimensions of elements, e.g. for floating elements inside containers, instead of opening up...
...shortcut (Shift+G for the 9.2-compatible layout or for the default layout with enabled "single-key shortcuts") and select "Outline" from the View → Style menu (needs to be done...
The program 'foo' can be found in the following packages: * foobar * barfoo Try: sudo apt-get install -bash: foo: command not found But you can customize this with the...
...connected with ssh. Because I'm using $@ I can also use options like a custom ssh-port...
This StackOverflow question about nested function definitions in Ruby imparts a good understanding of Ruby's def...