rondy

FWIW: I (@rondy) am not the creator of the content shared here, which is an excerpt from Edmond Lau's book. I simply copied and pasted it from another location and saved it as a personal note, before it gained popularity on news.ycombinator.com. Unfortunately, I cannot recall the exact origin of the original source, nor was I able to find the author's name, so I am can't provide the appropriate credits.

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Effective Engineer - Notes

• By Edmond Lau
• Highly Recommended 👍
• http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/

What's an Effective Engineer?

O-I

I have a simple Rails app that collects all the tweets I favorite on Twitter so I can sort and search through them at my leisure. Many of those favorites contain links I'd like to refer to, so I wrote a helper method that converts them to clickable anchor tags that looked like this:

# app/helpers/favorites_helper.rb
module FavoritesHelper

  # snip
  
  def text_to_true_link(tweet_text)
 urls = tweet_text.scan(/https*:\/\/t.co\/\w+/)

vangberg

# Deploying a Sinatra app to Heroku

## Database
The location of the database Heroku provides can be found in the environment
variable DATABASE_URL. Check the configure-block of toodeloo.rb for an example
on how to use this.

## Server
Heroku is serving your apps with thin, with means you have all your thin goodness available,
such as EventMachine.