fxn

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

le0pard

CREATE FUNCTION count_estimate(query text) RETURNS integer AS $$
DECLARE
  rec   record;
  rows  integer;
BEGIN
  FOR rec IN EXECUTE 'EXPLAIN ' || query LOOP
    rows := substring(rec."QUERY PLAN" FROM ' rows=([[:digit:]]+)');
    EXIT WHEN rows IS NOT NULL;
  END LOOP;
  RETURN rows;

stevenharman

#!/bin/sh
# This file is `.git/hooks/format-ruby` and it has been `chmod +x`'d
# Assumption: https://github.com/testdouble/standard is in your Gemfile

set -e

rubyfiles=$(git diff --cached --name-only --diff-filter=ACM "*.rb" "*.rake" "Gemfile" "Rakefile" | tr '\n' ' ')
[ -z "$rubyfiles" ] && exit 0

# Standardize all ruby files

loilo

Vue: Pass Slots through from Parent to Child Components

The Situation

• We've got some components A, B and C which provide different slots.

  const A = {
    template: `<div><slot name="a">Default A Content</slot></div>`
  }

const B = {

phansch

Improved YARD CHEATSHEET http://yardoc.org

forked from https://gist.github.com/chetan/1827484 which is from early 2012 and contains outdated information.

• Official Getting Started Guide
• Official Tags documentation
• Type naming examples

Templates to remind you of the options and formatting for the different types of objects you might want to document using YARD.

yossorion

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would