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# Original Rails controller and action
class EmployeesController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @employee = Employee.new(employee_params)
    
    if @employee.save
      redirect_to @employee, notice: "Employee #{@employee.name} created"
    else
      render :new
    end

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

rails new --skip-javascript --skip-turbolinks --skip-keeps --skip-git --skip-bundle --skip-test --skip-coffee testing-rails $1

rails new --skip-keeps --skip-git --skip-bundle --skip-test --skip-action-mailer --skip-action-cable testing-rails --api

bundle exec rails new \
  --skip-keeps \
  --skip-git \
  --skip-bundle \

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# app/serializers/customer_serializer_spec.rb

class CustomerSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
  attributes :customer_number, :email, :username

  def customer_number
    object.account_number
  end

  def merchant_id

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require 'base64'

def base64_url_decode(str)
  str += '=' * (4 - str.length.modulo(4))
  Base64.decode64(str.gsub("-", "+").gsub("_", "/"))
end # source: https://github.com/ptarjan/base64url/blob/master/ruby.rb


require 'hmac'
require 'hmac-sha2' ## used to decode facebook return values

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Testing client side app (like BackboneJS) with Capybara, VCR, webmock, factory girl

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# Today's little useless tidbit converts a url's query string into a hash 
# set of k/v pairs in a way that merges duplicates and massages empty 
# querystring values

def qs_to_hash(query_string)
  keyvals = query_string.split('&').inject({}) do |result, q| 
    k,v = q.split('=')
    if !v.nil?
       result.merge({k => v})
    elsif !result.key?(k)