searls

Title

Surgically Refactoring with Suture

Abstract

The next feature means changing legacy code. The estimate just says "PAIN" in red ink. Your hands tremble as you claim the card from the wall.

For all of Ruby's breakthroughs, refactoring is as painful as 2004, when Feathers' book released. It's time we Make Refactors Great Again.

bastman

Docker - How to cleanup (unused) resources

Once in a while, you may need to cleanup resources (containers, volumes, images, networks) ...

delete volumes

// see: https://github.com/chadoe/docker-cleanup-volumes

$ docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)

$ docker volume ls -qf dangling=true | xargs -r docker volume rm

benlinton

Multiple MySQL Versions for Development

Options included below:

• Using Docker docker-compose
• Using Homebrew brew

Using Docker (recommended)

This gist was originally created for Homebrew before the rise of Docker, yet it may be best to avoid installing mysql via brew any longer. Instead consider adding a barebones docker-compose.yml for each project and run docker-compose up to start each project's mysql service.

wacko

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# Validates that you don't commit forbidden keywords to the repo
# You can skip this checking with 'git commit --no-verify'

exit 0 if ARGV.include?('--no-verify')
# Update this list with your own forbidden keywords
KEYWORDS = %w(binding.pry console.log debugger)

def red(text)    "\033[31m#{text}\033[0m"; end

maxim

In Rails 3

NOTE: This post now lives (and kept up to date) on my blog: http://hakunin.com/rails3-load-paths

If you add a dir directly under app/

Do nothing. All files in this dir are eager loaded in production and lazy loaded in development by default.

If you add a dir under app/something/

alain75007

#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:     sidekiq beta    
# Required-Start:   $syslog $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:    $syslog $remote_fs
# Should-Start:     $local_fs
# Should-Stop:      $local_fs
# Default-Start:    2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:     0 1 6
# Short-Description:    sidekiq beta - asynchronous rails 

jimbojsb

Step 0:

Get Homebrew installed on your mac if you don't already have it

Step 1:

Install highlight. "brew install highlight". (This brings down Lua and Boost as well)

Step 2:

canton7

How to have local versions of tracked config files in git

This is a fairly common question, and there isn't a One True Answer.

These are the most common techniques:

If you can modify your application

ChillyBwoy

var Cookie = {
    findAll: function() {
        var cookies = {};
        _(document.cookie.split(';'))
            .chain()
            .map(function(m) {
                return m.replace(/^\s+/, '').replace(/\s+$/, '');
            })
            .each(function(c) {
                var arr = c.split('='),

igrigorik

require 'faraday'
require 'net/http'
require 'pp'

# Repos: 
# https://github.com/technoweenie/faraday
# https://github.com/pengwynn/faraday_middleware

# Blog posts: 
# http://adventuresincoding.com/2010/09/writing-modular-http-client-code-with-faraday