realtradam

Friendly URLs

By default, Rails applications build URLs based on the primary key -- the id column from the database. Imagine we have a Person model and associated controller. We have a person record for Bob Martin that has id number 6. The URL for his show page would be:

/people/6

But, for aesthetic or SEO purposes, we want Bob's name in the URL. The last segment, the 6 here, is called the "slug". Let's look at a few ways to implement better slugs.

raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

ntamvl

How to create a Ruby gem that adds Rake tasks

Create a gem

One way to do this is to use bundler to scaffold our gem:

bundler gem my_gem

Add rake tasks to our gem

I prefer to put tasks meant to manage the gem itself in lib/tasks, and tasks the gem is meant to provide to gem users in lib/my_gem/tasks.

Whatapalaver

• cd into new directory
• gem install bundler
• bundle init to create new Gemfile
• Add the following to Gemfile:

gem 'rake'
gem 'rubocop', '0.56.0'

group :test do
  gem 'rspec'

aursu

#!/usr/bin/python3

# script created for reading SMS messages from 3G modem connected to PC
# 1) it looks for modem
# 2) reads all SMS messages from modem
# 3) prints all found SMS messages to stdout only if total messages count
#    greater than SMS_STORE_COUNT (default is 3)
# 4) save all but SMS_STORE_COUNT messages to txt files and
#    delete them from modem

roxlu

# This CMake file will build Freetype and Harfbuzz as external
# projects. We follow the build description as described here:
# https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.5.3/ So,
# first we build Freetype2 w/o Harfbuzz, then we build Harfbuzz with
# freetype support after which we rebuild Freetype2 again.
#
# Both CMake files of Freetype2 and Harfbuzz are depending on
# pkg-config to find the dependencies for both projects. I've
# included a patch for Freetype2 and Harfbuzz which allows you to
# build Freetype2 and Harbuzz with pure CMake features. So I removed

rvl

Pushing to Multiple Git Repos

If a project has to have multiple git repos (e.g. Bitbucket and Github) then it's better that they remain in sync.

Usually this would involve pushing each branch to each repo in turn, but actually Git allows pushing to multiple repos in one go.

If in doubt about what git is doing when you run these commands, just

uyjulian

#include "dbpf.h"

#define assert(expr)

struct word
{
	byte lo, hi;
};
struct dword
{

jcasimir

test/coverage/

jcasimir

Friendly URLs

By default, Rails applications build URLs based on the primary key -- the id column from the database. Imagine we have a Person model and associated controller. We have a person record for Bob Martin that has id number 6. The URL for his show page would be:

/people/6

But, for aesthetic or SEO purposes, we want Bob's name in the URL. The last segment, the 6 here, is called the "slug". Let's look at a few ways to implement better slugs.