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lightscalar / Example
Created October 17, 2009 01:16
This is my first test of gist.github.
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lightscalar / Event Firing in Prototype: A Reminder
Created October 22, 2009 22:11
document.observe("widget:frobbed", function(event) {
console.log("Element with ID (" + event.target.id +
") frobbed widget #" + event.memo.widgetNumber + ".");
});
var someNode = $('foo');
someNode.fire("widget:frobbed", { widgetNumber: 19 });
//-> "Element with ID (foo) frobbed widget #19."
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lightscalar / Humanizing Model Attributes in Rails
Created December 24, 2009 15:38
Just discovered this: an easy way to humanize the attributes of a model. Allows you to rename the database column name to something more reasonable. Makes for nicer, more understandable error messages back to the user.
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
HUMANIZED_ATTRIBUTES = {
:user_email => "E-mail address"
}
def self.human_attribute_name(attr)
HUMANIZED_ATTRIBUTES[attr.to_sym] || super
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lightscalar / Nested forms...
Created December 26, 2009 19:47
class Book < ActiveRecord::Base
has_one :author
has_many :pages
accepts_nested_attributes_for :author, :pages
end
accepts_nested_attributes_for :author,
:reject_if => proc { |attributes| attributes['name'].blank? }
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lightscalar / Using RSPEC with AUTHLOGIC
Created September 2, 2010 16:10
So, this helps a lot when testing applications using RSPEC that use the authlogic gem for authentication.
Just require and include the following module in your rspec file. Then you can simply write things like:
before(:each) do
login_as_user
end
at the top of your specs, and you should be good to go...
module ControllerHelpers
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lightscalar / time.strftime formatting
Created September 16, 2010 20:12
STRFTIME
time.strftime( string ) => string
Formats time according to the directives in the given format string. Any text not listed as a directive will be passed through to the output string.
Format meaning:
%a - The abbreviated weekday name (``Sun'')
%A - The full weekday name (``Sunday'')
%b - The abbreviated month name (``Jan'')
%B - The full month name (``January'')
%c - The preferred local date and time representation
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lightscalar / Using Different Paths in Devise
Created October 23, 2010 15:38
Or: How to leave my UsersController the hell alone
We're working in a Rails 3 App with devise attached to the user model
In routes.rb, if we write:
devise_for :users, :path => 'u'
Then we can obviate all the problems with nested resources. Now users will be directed to /u/sign_in and so forth.
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lightscalar / no_test_files
Created July 31, 2011 15:35
How to avoid generating test files when running a Rails generator...
rails g controller sample_controller new --no-test-framework
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lightscalar / rails.test.frameworks.md
Created September 17, 2011 18:58
Setting up my test environment with RSPEC/GUARD/SPORK

Add the following gems to your gem file:

group :development, :test do
  gem 'jasmine'
  gem 'jasminerice'
  gem 'database_cleaner'
  gem 'capybara'
  gem 'rspec', ">= 2.5.0"
 gem "rspec-rails", "&gt;= 2.5.0"
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lightscalar / index.html
Created November 2, 2011 14:26
<html>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" type="text/css">
<body>
<p>Hello</p>
</body>
</html>