“Don’t move to that London” warned my northern grandfather once. “It’s full of spivs”.
The Oxford Dictionary (somewhat chauvinistically) defines a spiv as:
A man, typically a flashy dresser, who makes a living by disreputable dealings
“But I work in IT” I told him. “engineers aren’t like that”.
Last night, Brian Shirai unilaterally "ended" the RubySpec project, a sub-project of Rubinius (the alternative Ruby implementation which Brian was paid to work on full-time from 2007 to 2013). The blog post describing his reasons for "ending" the project led to a big discussion on Hacker News.
When a single, competing Ruby implementation tells that you its test suite is the One True Way, you should be skeptical. Charles Nutter, Ruby core committer and JRuby head honcho, spent a lot of time last night on Twitter talking to people about what this decision means. He's probably too busy and certainly too nice of a guy to write about what is a political issue in the Ruby community, so I'm going to do it on behalf of all the new or intermediate Rubyists out there that are confused by Brian's decision and what it me
| # Use: it { should accept_nested_attributes_for(:association_name).and_accept({valid_values => true}).but_reject({ :reject_if_nil => nil })} | |
| RSpec::Matchers.define :accept_nested_attributes_for do |association| | |
| match do |model| | |
| @model = model | |
| @nested_att_present = model.respond_to?("#{association}_attributes=".to_sym) | |
| if @nested_att_present && @reject | |
| model.send("#{association}_attributes=".to_sym,[@reject]) | |
| @reject_success = model.send("#{association}").empty? | |
| end | |
| model.send("#{association}").clear |
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| defmodule Acme.Repo do | |
| use Ecto.Repo, | |
| otp_app: :acme, | |
| adapter: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres | |
| def with_prefix(prefix) do | |
| module_atom = Module.concat([Acme, Repo, WithPrefix, Macro.camelize(prefix)]) | |
| # We could not find a better way to see if this module already existed | |
| if !Kernel.function_exported?(module_atom, :prefix, 0) do |
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| # Install pow | |
| $ curl get.pow.cx | sh | |
| # Install powder | |
| $ gem install powder | |
| # See that firewall is fucked | |
| $ sudo ipfw show | |
| 00100 0 0 fwd 127.0.0.1,20559 tcp from any to me dst-port 80 in <- THIS ONE!!! | |
| 65535 81005 28684067 allow ip from any to any |
“Don’t move to that London” warned my northern grandfather once. “It’s full of spivs”.
The Oxford Dictionary (somewhat chauvinistically) defines a spiv as:
A man, typically a flashy dresser, who makes a living by disreputable dealings
“But I work in IT” I told him. “engineers aren’t like that”.
By: @BTroncone
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Update: Non-middleware examples have been updated to ngrx/store v2. More coming soon!
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