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.
| #!/usr/bin/env perl | |
| # | |
| # http://daringfireball.net/2007/03/javascript_bookmarklet_builder | |
| use strict; | |
| use warnings; | |
| use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8); | |
| use open IO => ":utf8", # UTF8 by default | |
| ":std"; # Apply to STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR |
https://gist.github.com/ljharb/58faf1cfcb4e6808f74aae4ef7944cff
While attempting to explain JavaScript's reduce method on arrays, conceptually, I came up with the following - hopefully it's helpful; happy to tweak it if anyone has suggestions.
JavaScript Arrays have lots of built in methods on their prototype. Some of them mutate - ie, they change the underlying array in-place. Luckily, most of them do not - they instead return an entirely distinct array. Since arrays are conceptually a contiguous list of items, it helps code clarity and maintainability a lot to be able to operate on them in a "functional" way. (I'll also insist on referring to an array as a "list" - although in some languages, List is a native data type, in JS and this post, I'm referring to the concept. Everywhere I use the word "list" you can assume I'm talking about a JS Array) This means, to perform a single operation on the list as a whole ("atomically"), and to return a new list - thus making it mu
Look at the following image...
...it shows an object being tested.
You can't see inside the object. All you can do is send it messages. This is an important point to make because we should be "testing the interface, and NOT the implementation" - doing so will allow us to change the implementation without causing our tests to break.
| The regex patterns in this gist are intended only to match web URLs -- http, | |
| https, and naked domains like "example.com". For a pattern that attempts to | |
| match all URLs, regardless of protocol, see: https://gist.github.com/gruber/249502 | |
| # Single-line version: | |
| (?i)\b((?:https?:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.](?:com|net|org|edu|gov|mil|aero|asia|biz|cat|coop|info|int|jobs|mobi|museum|name|post|pro|tel|travel|xxx|ac|ad|ae|af|ag|ai|al|am|an|ao|aq|ar|as|at|au|aw|ax|az|ba|bb|bd|be|bf|bg|bh|bi|bj|bm|bn|bo|br|bs|bt|bv|bw|by|bz|ca|cc|cd|cf|cg|ch|ci|ck|cl|cm|cn|co|cr|cs|cu|cv|cx|cy|cz|dd|de|dj|dk|dm|do|dz|ec|ee|eg|eh|er|es|et|eu|fi|fj|fk|fm|fo|fr|ga|gb|gd|ge|gf|gg|gh|gi|gl|gm|gn|gp|gq|gr|gs|gt|gu|gw|gy|hk|hm|hn|hr|ht|hu|id|ie|il|im|in|io|iq|ir|is|it|je|jm|jo|jp|ke|kg|kh|ki|km|kn|kp|kr|kw|ky|kz|la|lb|lc|li|lk|lr|ls|lt|lu|lv|ly|ma|mc|md|me|mg|mh|mk|ml|mm|mn|mo|mp|mq|mr|ms|mt|mu|mv|mw|mx|my|mz|na|nc|ne|nf|ng|ni|nl|no|np|nr|nu|nz|om|pa|pe|pf|pg|ph|pk|pl|pm|pn|pr|ps|pt|pw|py|qa|re|ro|rs|ru|rw|sa|sb|sc|sd|se|sg|sh|si|s |
A timeline of the last four years of detecting good old window.localStorage.
October 2009: 5059daa
| <?php | |
| function base64url_encode($binary_data) { return strtr(rtrim(base64_encode($binary_data), '='), '+/', '-_'); } | |
| function apns_jwt_token($team_id, $key_id, $private_key_pem_str) | |
| { | |
| if (! function_exists('openssl_get_md_methods') || ! in_array('sha256', openssl_get_md_methods())) throw new Exception('Requires openssl with sha256 support'); | |
| $private_key = openssl_pkey_get_private($private_key_pem_str); | |
| if (! $private_key) throw new Exception('Cannot decode private key'); |
| getHexColor = (color) -> | |
| return "" unless color | |
| return color if /^#/.test(color) | |
| rgbValues = getRGBValues(color) | |
| hexValues = rgbValues.map(numberToHex) | |
| "#" + hexValues.join("") | |
| numberToHex = (number) -> | |
| "0#{number.toString(16)}".slice(-2).toUpperCase() |
Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.
Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.
