staltz

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

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This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

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jesster2k10

JWT Auth + Refresh Tokens in Rails

This is just some code I recently used in my development application in order to add token-based authentication for my api-only rails app. The api-client was to be consumed by a mobile application, so I needed an authentication solution that would keep the user logged in indefinetly and the only way to do this was either using refresh tokens or sliding sessions.

I also needed a way to both blacklist and whitelist tokens based on a unique identifier (jti)

Before trying it out DIY, I considered using:

fxn

Ruby: The future of frozen string literals

What is a literal?

In programming languages, literals are textual representations of values in the source code. This is a syntactical concept.

Some examples:

7 # integer literal

jonathanmoore

Share Counts

I have always struggled with getting all the various share buttons from Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest, etc to align correctly and to not look like a tacky explosion of buttons. Seeing a number of sites rolling their own share buttons with counts, for example The Next Web I decided to look into the various APIs on how to simply return the share count.

If you want to roll up all of these into a single jQuery plugin check out Sharrre

Many of these API calls and methods are undocumented, so anticipate that they will change in the future. Also, if you are planning on rolling these out across a site I would recommend creating a simple endpoint that periodically caches results from all of the APIs so that you are not overloading the services will requests.

Twitter

brianstorti

class PriorityQueue
  attr_reader :elements

  def initialize
    @elements = [nil]
  end

  def <<(element)
    @elements << element
    bubble_up(@elements.size - 1)

wbotelhos

require 'sidekiq/api'

# 1. Clear retry set

Sidekiq::RetrySet.new.clear

# 2. Clear scheduled jobs 

Sidekiq::ScheduledSet.new.clear

eliotsykes

require 'rails_helper'

RSpec.describe TodosController, :type => :controller do

  describe "GET #index" do
  #describe "POST #create" do
  #describe "GET #show" do
  #describe "PATCH #update" do (or PUT #update)
  #describe "DELETE #destroy" do
  #describe "GET #new" do

Envek

# spec/system/support/login_helpers.rb
# See this blog post for setup guide: https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/system-of-a-test-setting-up-end-to-end-rails-testing

module LoginHelpers
  def login_as(user)
    # Craft session cookie to make request authenticated (to pass even routing constraints)
    # Compilation of these:
    #  - https://dev.to/nejremeslnici/migrating-selenium-system-tests-to-cuprite-42ah#faster-signin-in-tests
    #  - https://turriate.com/articles/2011/feb/how-to-generate-signed-rails-session-cookie
    #  - https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/43e29f0f5d54294ed61c31ddecdf76c2e1a474f7/actionpack/test/dispatch/cookies_test.rb#L350

mrispoli24

Setting up Heroku and Cloudflare (the right way)

The following outlines how to setup Heroku + Cloudflare with a full SSL certificate. What this means is that communication between the browser and the Cloudflare CDN is encrypted as well as communication between Cloudflare and Heroku’s origin server. Follow these steps exactly and the setup is a breeze.

Step 1: Set up domain names in Heroku

First you want to add the root domain and the www domain to heroku. You do this by clicking into your production application, then going to settings and then scrolling down to Domains and certificates.

Here you will add <your_domain>.com and www.<your_domain>.com. This will give you two CNAME records. They will look something like <your_domain>.com.herokudns.com and www.<your_domain>.com.herokudns.com.

Step 2: Add CNAME records to Cloudfare.

hschne

 frozen_string_literal: true

# A leaky bucket rate limiter for Ruby
#
# @see https://www.mikeperham.com/2020/11/09/the-leaky-bucket-rate-limiter/
# @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_bucket
class RateLimit
  class Error < StandardError
    attr_accessor :retry_in