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Arrays and Lists

Arrays

Arrays are a little bit different in c# than they are in most other languages and they basically suck. Main reason: they're fixed length. In order to make an array longer you basically have to copy the contents of the old array into a newer, longer array that also has a fixed length.

There are a few instances where arrays may be slightly more performant, but the c# community seems to favor lists for almost all occasions.

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# app/models/post.rb

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :tags, dependent: :destroy
  
  # Enable the building of complex forms
  accepts_nested_attributes_for :tags, allow_destroy: true
end

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# I am a ruby comment

def foobar(param)
  puts param
end

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Gems

Rails-related Gems and guides to accelerate your web project.

• Bundler - Bundler maintains a consistent environment for ruby applications. It tracks an application's code and the rubygems it needs to run, so that an application will always have the exact gems (and versions) that it needs to run.
• rabl - General ruby templating with json, bson, xml, plist and msgpack support
• Thin - Very fast and lightweight Ruby web server
• Unicorn - Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels.
• SimpleCov - SimpleCov is a code coverage analysis tool for Ruby 1.9.
• Zeus - Zeus preloads your Rails app so that your normal development tasks such as console, server, generat

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// Use Gists to store code you would like to remember later on
console.log(window); // log the "window" object to the console

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# 'users' is whatever table you need to fix.
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13670235/after-importing-data-in-postgresql-duplicate-key-value-violates-unique-constrai

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.reset_pk_sequence!('users')

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Create your devise User model

We start by getting devise up and running and generating the User model.

rails generate devise User

Then you'll probably run rake db:migrate and follow their instructions for making sure you have a few default things in order. Okay, so far so good.

Add a role column to Users

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Basic vanilla clickTag that should work everywhere.

Note: you'll probably end up with IE giving you the butter bar.

function basicClickTag(e:MouseEvent):void { 
	flash.net.navigateToURL( 
		new URLRequest(root.loaderInfo.parameters.clickTAG), '_blank' );
} 

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Rails Testing

Below are some tools, workarounds, and gotchas to help speed things up when getting testing working.

Capybara

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To get tests to run properly you'll need to add a line to spec_helper.rb file.

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How to Post to a Google Spreadsheet

Part 1 - Setting up the Google Document

• Go to Google Docs and create your spreadsheet
• Give column names and make note of them as they become the names of your input fields
• Give the spreadsheet the tab name of "DATA"
• Click Tools > Script Editor
• Choose 'Spreadsheet' under 'Create Script for'