burke

ruby-1.9.3-p327 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p327 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

• rbenv
• ruby-build

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

amysimmons

Advanced JavaScript Learning Resources

This is a list of advanced JavaScript learning resources from people who responded to this [Tweet][13] and this [Tweet][20].

• [You Don't Know JS][3]

• [Frontend Masters courses by Kyle Simpson][12]

• [@mpjme][6]'s [YouTube videos][5]

jbenet

a simple git branching model (written in 2013)

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

Update: Woah, thanks for all the attention. Didn't expect this simple rant to get popular.

dhh

ruby '2.7.1'

gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'tzinfo-data', '>= 1.2016.7'  # Don't rely on OSX/Linux timezone data

# Action Text
gem 'actiontext', github: 'basecamp/actiontext', ref: 'okra'
gem 'okra', github: 'basecamp/okra'

# Drivers

fideloper

#! /usr/bin/env bash

# Install any build dependencies needed for curl
sudo apt-get build-dep curl

# Get latest (as of Feb 25, 2016) libcurl
mkdir ~/curl
cd ~/curl
wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2
tar -xvjf curl-7.50.2.tar.bz2

hopsoft

const hoverTime = 400
const fetchers = {}
const doc = document.implementation.createHTMLDocument('prefetch')

function fetchPage (url, success) {
  const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
  xhr.open('GET', url)
  xhr.setRequestHeader('VND.PREFETCH', 'true')
  xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'text/html')
  xhr.onreadystatechange = () => {

mikechau

Logging Rails 4 to Syslog, formatted w/ Logstash

Getting Started

Steps to get Rails 4 saving its output to Syslog via Rsyslog. This assumes you are on CentOS, but should be pretty adaptable to any other distribution. Ruby 2.0+ is also required.

1. Add the gems lograge and logstash-event to your Gemfile. Feel free to remove from production if you'd like to test it in development as well or something.
2. Update production.rb with the lograge settings and set the logger to Syslog::Logger.
3. Add the conf files to /etc/rsyslog.d/. /etc/rsyslog.conf should have $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf enabled, so it will load any additional configs from /etc/rsyslog.conf.

jcasimir

Render and Redirect

The normal controller/view flow is to display a view template corresponding to the current controller action, but sometimes we want to change that. We use render in a controller when we want to respond within the current request, and redirect_to when we want to spawn a new request.

Render

The render method is very overloaded in Rails. Most developers encounter it within the view template, using render :partial => 'form' or render @post.comments, but here we'll focus on usage within the controller.

:action

derwiki

Adding an audit log to your Rails app

If you have any sort of administrative interface on your web site, you can easily imagine an intruder gaining access and mucking about. How do you know the extent of the damage? Adding an audit log to your app is one quick solution. An audit log should record a few things:

• controller entry points with parameter values
• permanent information about the user, like user_id
• transient information about the user, like IP and user_agent

Using the Rails framework, this is as simple as adding a before_action to your admin controllers. Here’s a basic version that I’m using in production.

putermancer

# Setting up a local solr instance on a mac

# install solr with homebrew
brew install solr

# create the base solr index directory
mkdir -p /data/solr

# make sure you can write to the solr logs
sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/Cellar/solr/