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kattak / service_objects.md
Last active November 24, 2020 11:24
Service Objects in Rails

##What are Service Objects?

 Service objects contain business logic with an interface that is easy to test.
 View > Controller > Model, but sometimes need other data, i.e. from an API

Where are service objects located?

├── app
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kattak / Rails Form - Checkboxes.md
Last active January 9, 2017 15:43

#Checkbox Field

<div class="field">
<%= f.label "Mechanics in Game:" %><br />
<%= f.collection_check_boxes :mechanic_ids, @mechanics.all, :id, :name do |m| %>
  <div class="collection-check-box">
    <%= m.check_box %>
    <%= m.label %>
  </div>
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kattak / bookmarklets.md
Last active January 9, 2017 00:22
Hello World Bookmarklet - What is a bookmarklet? Why would I want to use one? Make a "Hello World" bookmarklet in <10 minutes.

##Bookmarklets

#####What is it?

  • An anonymous JS function
  • Saved in the url of a bookmark in your browser
  • Can also reference an external file

#####What can it be used for?:

  • Hide the subscription blocker on NYT
  • Fill in forms for you
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kattak / Heroku in Rails - set up and debugging
Last active January 17, 2017 05:22
(in progress)
```bash
'rails new APPNAME --database=postgresql’
*heroku doesn’t use sqlite3, which is default in new rails apps
***SQLite just stores the database to a file in your db/ folder, which is why it's incompatible with Heroku.***
**Redo blog app using postgresql DB
**Then try deploying to heroku
How to deploy app to heroku
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kattak / Current trends: EC6, V8, Angular & React, Node
Created January 9, 2017 15:55
(in progress) Types of languages; Javascript, V8, EC6; Angular and React compared to Rails; Node
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kattak / Generators in Rails.md
Last active June 30, 2017 01:11
(in progress)

Make a Rails blog in 10 minutes

New Rails App with postgres

rails new APPNAME --database=postgresql

Why can't we use the default (sqlite) database?

  • Heroku is a popular free hosting service.
  • Heroku doesn’t use SQLite3, which is the default database in new Rails apps.
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kattak / d3js.md
Last active January 10, 2017 06:18

#About d3.js

#First Step ✮ Either use a gem - this one is most popular iblue/d3-rails

-You might get a json v1.8.1 error

-Delete the Gemfile.lock

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kattak / Music Lyrics APIs.md
Last active May 3, 2022 07:18

###Big Questions for search optimization

How many queries? Can get (and parse) full lyrics? Can store/serialize lyrics? How to store once acquired? Restricted list Possible queries and benchmarks from existing APIs

Crawler Search and ranking already done when you do a search. To make search so fast, the search layer just returns the next 10 results from a list starting at position 1.

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kattak / Sentiment Analysis.md
Last active January 14, 2017 05:49
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kattak / Caching in Rails.md
Created January 16, 2017 07:06
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