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zhengjia / capybara cheat sheet
Created June 7, 2010 01:35
capybara cheat sheet
=Navigating=
visit('/projects')
visit(post_comments_path(post))
=Clicking links and buttons=
click_link('id-of-link')
click_link('Link Text')
click_button('Save')
click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
click('Button Value')
@kamermans
kamermans / mysql_countries.sql
Created December 7, 2011 04:43
MySQL Dump - continents and countries with 2 and 3 char codes, names and full names - Braintree compatible as of Dec 2011
/**
* Continents and Countries MySQL Tables compiled from Wikipedia, Braintree Payments documentation
* and a couple other places I don't recall at the moment. This data is compatible with the Braintree
* Payment API as of Dec 2011
*
* Compiled by Steve Kamerman, 2011
*/
SET FOREIGN_KEY_CHECKS=0;
-- ----------------------------
@johnrees
johnrees / gist:1670449
Created January 24, 2012 14:32
Remote IP on Heroku
def remote_ip
if forwarded = request.env["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]
forwarded.split(",").first
elsif addr = request.env["REMOTE_ADDR"]
addr
end
end

Proposal for Improving Mass Assignment

For a while, I have felt that the following is the correct way to improve the mass assignment problem without increasing the burden on new users. Now that the problem with the Rails default has been brought up again, it's a good time to revisit it.

Sign Allowed Fields

When creating a form with form_for, include a signed token including all of the fields that were created at form creation time. Only these fields are allowed.

To allow new known fields to be added via JS, we could add:

@nono
nono / blowfish.rb
Created June 26, 2012 10:57
How to encrypt and decrypt Blowfish in Ruby 1.9 with https://github.com/drench/blowfish.js
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require "openssl"
class BF < Struct.new(:key, :pad_with_spaces)
def encrypt(str)
cipher = OpenSSL::Cipher.new('bf-ecb').encrypt
if pad_with_spaces
str += " " until str.bytesize % 8 == 0
cipher.padding = 0
@joho
joho / gist:3735740
Created September 17, 2012 05:40 — forked from rafaelss/gist:3700977
PostgreSQL 9.2 upgrade steps
Steps to install and run PostgreSQL 9.2 using Homebrew (Mac OS X)
(if you aren't using version 9.1.5, change line 6 with the correct version)
1. launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
2. mv /usr/local/var/postgres /usr/local/var/postgres91
3. brew update
4. brew upgrade postgresql
5. initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8
6. pg_upgrade -b /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.5/bin -B /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.0/bin -d /usr/local/var/postgres91 -D /usr/local/var/postgres
7. cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.0/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
@shanselman
shanselman / gist:5422230
Last active March 28, 2024 10:33
Evil Blog Comment Spammer just exposed his template through some error and the whole thing showed up in my comments.
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Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

@phaedryx
phaedryx / summary
Last active December 3, 2022 19:27
Loyalty and Layoffs by David Brady
Original text here: https://whydavewhy.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/
@chengyin
chengyin / linkedout.js
Last active July 11, 2021 15:23
Unsubscribe all LinkedIn email in "one click". For an easier to use version, you can check out the bookmarklet: http://chengyin.github.io/linkedin-unsubscribed/
// 1. Go to page https://www.linkedin.com/settings/email-frequency
// 2. You may need to login
// 3. Open JS console
// ([How to?](http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/8525/how-to-open-the-javascript-console-in-different-browsers))
// 4. Copy the following code in and execute
// 5. No more emails
//
// Bookmarklet version:
// http://chengyin.github.io/linkedin-unsubscribed/