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For a Good Strftime lets you easily create the Ruby syntax for strftime. Just select how you want your dates: month first, day first, year any place. With dashes, slashes, or colons. ...
Read MoreToday I've finished version 0.5 of my new Gem, Universal Track Manager. It's a plug-and-play Rails engine that you install into your Ruby on Rails application with just three simple steps (see the README). You can then immediately pick up your visitors': IP address Ad campaign...
Read MoreToday I'm announcing 'a first look' at my new Gem: Universal Track Manager. It's an ambitious project that's going to have nearly universal appeal and utility. Visitors come to your site every day. Along with their visits, 4 key pieces of information come along for the...
Read More1. deivid-rodriguez/byebug Byebug is a fantastic debugger available for Ruby 2 (and presumably above). Drop gem 'byebug' into your Rails app Gemfile and bundle install. In either your test run or your development run, write byebug on a single line of your app and voila. When...
Read More1. Create an ErrorsController in app/controllers class ErrorsController < ApplicationController def not_found respond_to do |format| format.html { render template: "errors/not_found", layout: "layouts/application", status: 404 } end end def server_error respond_to do |format| format.html { render template: "errors/server_error", layout: "layouts/application", status: 500 } end end end 2. Add these to your routes.rb file match "/404", :to => "errors#not_found", :via =>...
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Today I’ll take a moment to expound on how web development has changed over the last two decades. Long ago, when we started back in the 90s, connections were slow and web pages didn’t change much.
In the design of the internet itself is something you should be familiar with if you are reading this post: browser caching.
Sometimes in the life of a hybrid Rails-Javascript app you may want to do something unique: have a config file written in YAML available to you in your Javascript code. A simple trick will make Sprockets, the Asset Pipeline in Rails 4+, do this automagically for...
Read MoreIf you're a Ruby or Rails developer looking for some advice on how to get better at integration testing: congratulations! You've reached the highest level of difficulty in all of the areas of the stack you must conquer to become a great Ruby developer. Integration...
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def wait_for_ajax counter = 0 while page.evaluate_script("typeof($) === 'undefined'") counter += 1 print "^" $stdout.flush sleep(0.1) raise "Jquery not initialized after 10 seconds." if counter >= 100 end counter = 0 while page.evaluate_script("$.active > 0") counter += 1 print "_" $stdout.flush sleep(0.1) if counter >= 100 msg = "AJAX request took longer than 10 seconds." if page.driver.respond_to?(:console_messages) msg << " console messages at time...
Read MoreI am pleased to announce the release of my gem nondestructive_migrations Version 1.1. Version 1.1 now supports Rails 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2 You can ready all about it on Github here: ...
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