ericbeland

# This is a total hack to slow down webdriver in Capybara 
# so you can more easily watch what is happening.

# paste this above the top of a Capybara Webdriver RSpec test if you need to debug something in slo-mo

   require 'selenium-webdriver'

   module ::Selenium::WebDriver::Remote
     class Bridge
       def execute(*args)

jwo

class Api::RegistrationsController < Api::BaseController
  
  respond_to :json
  def create

    user = User.new(params[:user])
    if user.save
      render :json=> user.as_json(:auth_token=>user.authentication_token, :email=>user.email), :status=>201
      return
    else

activefx

require 'rubygems'

def start_simplecov
  require 'simplecov'
  SimpleCov.start 'rails' unless ENV["SKIP_COV"]
end

def spork?
  defined?(Spork) && Spork.using_spork?
end

nazgob

# you have ctags but it does not work...
$ ctags -R --exclude=.git --exclude=log *
ctags: illegal option -- R
usage: ctags [-BFadtuwvx] [-f tagsfile] file ...

#you need to get new ctags, i recommend homebrew but anything will work
$ brew install ctags

#alias ctags if you used homebrew
$ alias ctags="`brew --prefix`/bin/ctags"

scottwb

# Add these methods to your ApplicationController. Then, any controller
# that inherits from it will have these methods and can programmatically
# determine what filters it has set.
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base

  def self.filters(kind = nil)
    all_filters = _process_action_callbacks
    all_filters = all_filters.select{|f| f.kind == kind} if kind
    all_filters.map(&:filter)
  end

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

jboner

Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference                           0.5 ns
Branch mispredict                            5   ns
L2 cache reference                           7   ns                      14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock                           25   ns
Main memory reference                      100   ns                      20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy             3,000   ns        3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network       10,000   ns       10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD*             150,000   ns      150 us          ~1GB/sec SSD

ryanb

My issues with Modules

In researching topics for RailsCasts I often read code in Rails and other gems. This is a great exercise to do. Not only will you pick up some coding tips, but it can help you better understand what makes code readable.

A common practice to organize code in gems is to divide it into modules. When this is done extensively I find it becomes very difficult to read. Before I explain further, a quick detour on instance_eval.

You can find instance_eval used in many DSLs: from routes to state machines. Here's an example from Thinking Sphinx.

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base

shinzui

Ruby Learning Links

Tutorials

• https://github.com/thoughtbot/trail-map
• http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/
• http://ruby.learncodethehardway.org/
• http://rubykoans.com/
• http://rubymonk.com/
• http://tryruby.org/
• http://www.jasimabasheer.com/posts/meta_introduction_to_ruby.html* http://railsforzombies.org/

JamesDullaghan

Deploy Rails app to digitalocean with nginx, unicorn, capistrano & postgres

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