javan

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
  before_filter :ensure_xhr

  private
    def ensure_xhr
      if request.get? && request.format && (request.format.js? || request.format.json?)
        head :forbidden unless request.xhr?
      end
    end
end

djbender

class User < ActiveRecord::Base

  cattr_accessible :admin_account

  validates :password, unless: admin_account

end

jed

How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine

One of the best ways to reduce complexity (read: stress) in web development is to minimize the differences between your development and production environments. After being frustrated by attempts to unify the approach to SSL on my local machine and in production, I searched for a workflow that would make the protocol invisible to me between all environments.

Most workflows make the following compromises:

• Use HTTPS in production but HTTP locally. This is annoying because it makes the environments inconsistent, and the protocol choices leak up into the stack. For example, your web application needs to understand the underlying protocol when using the secure flag for cookies. If you don't get this right, your HTTP development server won't be able to read the cookies it writes, or worse, your HTTPS production server could pass sensitive cookies over an insecure connection.

• Use production SSL certificates locally. This is annoying

haileys

module CheapStrings
  def `(str)
    str
  end
end

module A
  extend CheapStrings

  def self.make_lots_of_strings

dypsilon

Frontend Development

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adamwiggins

Make it real

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.

Ship 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.

Do it with style

spro

#!/bin/sh

# Read _why's SPOOL in real time.
# Requires `lp` and a printer.

BASEURL=http://whytheluckystiff.net
if [ ! -d SPOOL ]; then
    mkdir SPOOL
fi

perplexes

Buildpacks

Heroku uses buildpacks to compile your application into a slug that is used across dynos for scaling horizontally quickly. A slug is a tar.gz archive of your app’s repository with certain pre-deploy features baked into the filesystem. Since everything to run your application is included in the archive, scaling becomes a simple matter of transferring it to a dyno, unpacking, and running the appropriate process. This is how Heroku achieves scaling-by-moving-a-slider.

For example, the Ruby buildpack will:

• install ruby locally
• install the jvm/jruby (if you’re using it)
• install/run bundler and install your gems to Rails.root/vendor
• create your database.yml (which ends up reading from your app’s environment variables)

garybernhardt

diff --git a/app/views/devise/shared/_links.erb b/app/views/devise/shared/_links.erb
dissimilarity index 99%
index 414904b..0b0b21d 100644
--- a/app/views/devise/shared/_links.erb
+++ b/app/views/devise/shared/_links.erb
@@ -1,19 +1,15 @@
-<%- if controller_name != 'sessions' %>
-  <%= link_to "Sign in", new_session_path(resource_name) %><br />
-<% end -%>
-

pcwalton

static LINES: [ &'static str, ..20 ] = [
    "..............3.85..1.2.......5.7.....4...1...9.......5......73..2.1........4...9	near worst case for brute-force solver (wiki)",
    ".......12........3..23..4....18....5.6..7.8.......9.....85.....9...4.5..47...6...	gsf's sudoku q1 (Platinum Blonde)",
    ".2..5.7..4..1....68....3...2....8..3.4..2.5.....6...1...2.9.....9......57.4...9..	(Cheese)",
    "........3..1..56...9..4..7......9.5.7.......8.5.4.2....8..2..9...35..1..6........	(Fata Morgana)",
    "12.3....435....1....4........54..2..6...7.........8.9...31..5.......9.7.....6...8	(Red Dwarf)",
    "1.......2.9.4...5...6...7...5.9.3.......7.......85..4.7.....6...3...9.8...2.....1	(Easter Monster)",
    ".......39.....1..5..3.5.8....8.9...6.7...2...1..4.......9.8..5..2....6..4..7.....	Nicolas Juillerat's Sudoku explainer 1.2.1 (top 5)",
    "12.3.....4.....3....3.5......42..5......8...9.6...5.7...15..2......9..6......7..8",
    "..3..6.8....1..2......7...4..9..8.6..3..4...1.7.2.....3....5.....5...6..98.....5."