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• You MUST NOT try and generate a Rails app from scratch on your own by generating each file. For a NEW app you MUST use rails new first to generate all of the boilerplate files necessary.
• Create an app in the current directory with rails new .
• Use Tailwind CSS for styling. Use --css tailwind as an option on the rails new call to do this automatically.
• Use Ruby 3.4.2+ and Rails 8.0+ practices.
• Use the default Minitest approach for testing, do not use RSpec.
• Default to using SQLite in development. rails new will do this automatically but take care if you write any custom SQL that it is SQLite compatible.
• An app can be built with a devcontainer such as rails new myapp --devcontainer but only do this if requested directly.
• Rails apps have a lot of directories to consider, such as app, config, db, etc.
• Adhere to MVC conventions: singular model names (e.g., Product) map to plural tables (products); controllers are plural.
• Guard against incapable browsers accessing controllers with `al

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Ruby: The future of frozen string literals

What is a literal?

In programming languages, literals are textual representations of values in the source code. This is a syntactical concept.

Some examples:

7 # integer literal

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import { Controller } from "@hotwired/stimulus"

export default class extends Controller {
  connect() {
    addEventListener("turbo:submit-end", ({ target }) => {
      clearInterval(this.interval);
      this.element.innerHTML = this.originalLabel;
    })
    this.originalLabel = this.element.innerHTML;
  }

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Search Bar*

  Inactive*
    focused -> Active

  Active
    canceled -> Inactive
    typed -> Text Entry

    Empty*

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=Navigating=
    visit('/projects')
    visit(post_comments_path(post))

=Clicking links and buttons=
    click_link('id-of-link')
    click_link('Link Text')
    click_button('Save')
    click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button
    click('Button Value')

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These two files should help you to export passwords from a Mac OS X keychain for import into 1password.

Assumptions:
1) You have some experience with scripting/are a power-user. These scripts worked for me
   but they haven't been extensively tested and if they don't work, you're on your own!
   Please read this whole document before starting this process. If any of it seems
   incomprehensible/frightening/over your head please do not use these scripts. You will
   probably do something Very Bad and I wouldn't want that.
2) You have ruby 1.9.2 installed on your machine. This comes as standard with Lion, previous
   versions of OS X may have earlier versions of ruby, which *may* work, but then again, they

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Launch a one-off git server from any local repository.

I [tweeted this already][1] but I thought it could use some expansion:

Enable decentralized git workflow: git config alias.serve "daemon --verbose --export-all --base-path=.git --reuseaddr --strict-paths .git/"

Say you use a git workflow that involves working with a core "official" repository that you pull and push your changes from and into. I'm sure many companies do this, as do many users of git hosting services like Github.

Say that server, or Github, goes down for a bit.

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#!/bin/bash

TMUX_VERSION="1.7"
LIBEVENT_VERSION="2.0.20"
NCURSES_VERSION="5.9"

# Script for installing tmux on systems where you don't have root access.
# tmux will be installed in $HOME/local/bin.
# It's assumed that wget and a C/C++ compiler are installed.

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Just a informational gist if you plan to install "beanstalkd" via MacPorts and get a compiler error:

:info:build net.c: In function 'make_server_socket':
:info:build net.c:35: warning: 'fd' may be used uninitialized in this function
:info:build make[1]: *** [net.o] Error 1
:info:build make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

This is a known issue within the "net.c" file. I've found a diff[1] for said file on the web and applied it locally which then allowed me to install the port without problems.

If your install fails like:

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require 'feedzirra'

# fetching a single feed
feed = Feedzirra::Feed.fetch_and_parse("http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulDixExplainsNothing")

# feed and entries accessors
feed.title          # => "Paul Dix Explains Nothing"
feed.url            # => "http://www.pauldix.net"
feed.feed_url       # => "http://feeds.feedburner.com/PaulDixExplainsNothing"
feed.etag           # => "GunxqnEP4NeYhrqq9TyVKTuDnh0"