jrochkind

A Capistrano Rails Guide

by Jonathan Rochkind, http://bibwild.wordpress.com

why cap?

Capistrano automates pushing out a new version of your application to a deployment location.

I've been writing and deploying Rails apps for a while, but I avoided using Capistrano until recently. I've got a pretty simple one-host deployment, and even though everyone said Capistrano was great, every time I tried to get started I just got snowed under not being able to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, and figured I wasn't having that much trouble doing it "manually".

dnagir

# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

vcastroi

// create a bookmark and use this code as the URL, you can now toggle the css on/off
// thanks+credit: https://dev.to/gajus/my-favorite-css-hack-32g3
javascript: (function() {
	var elements = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');
	var items = [];
	for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
		if (elements[i].innerHTML.indexOf('* { background:#000!important;color:#0f0!important;outline:solid #f00 1px!important; background-color: rgba(255,0,0,.2) !important; }') != -1) {
			items.push(elements[i]);
		}
	}

cacheflowe

// [Noted in the comments below on 2023-10 - this script might not work very well anymore due to Elon ruining Twitter]
// [Updated 2021-01-18 w/new selectors]
// go to your account Likes page and run this in the console:

function scrollToLoadMore() {
	// keep scrolling if twitter tries to stop loading more.
	// scroll up, then down to force infinite load.
	window.scrollTo(0, 0);	
	setTimeout(function() {
		window.scrollBy(0, 9999999999);

ryansobol

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

justinko

Dear Rubyists,

I just lost a contract because of my code in a Rails project.

The specific code in question is related to a "posting a comment" feature. Here are the details:

In this project, "posting a comment" does not simply entail inserting a row into the database. It involves a procedure to yes, insert a row, but also detect its language, check for spam, send emails, and "share" it to Twitter and Facebook. I believe this algorithm should be encapsulated. I do not believe it belongs in a controller or a model. I do not believe Active Record callbacks should be used.

The "senior developer", whom is the stake holder's right hand man, said this:

raggi

require 'sinatra/metal'

class SinatraMetal < Sinatra::Base
  include Sinatra::Metal

  get '/sinatra' do
    'hello sinatra!'
  end
end

jstorimer

This is a proof-of-concept of a couple of concurrent data structures written in Ruby.

The implementations are heavily commented for those interested. There are benchmarks (with results) included below. The results are interesting, but, as always, take with a grain of salt.

Data structures

AtomicLinkedQueue is a lock-free queue, built on atomic CAS operations.

bensie

require "sinatra/base"
require "sinatra/namespace"
require "multi_json"

require "api/authentication"
require "api/error_handling"
require "api/pagination"

module Api
  class Base < ::Sinatra::Base

monde

Gemfile.lock