jfarmer

true and false vs. "truthy" and "falsey" (or "falsy") in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

Many programming languages, including Ruby, have native boolean (true and false) data types. In Ruby they're called true and false. In Python, for example, they're written as True and False. But oftentimes we want to use a non-boolean value (integers, strings, arrays, etc.) in a boolean context (if statement, &&, ||, etc.).

This outlines how this works in Ruby, with some basic examples from Python and JavaScript, too. The idea is much more general than any of these specific languages, though. It's really a question of how the people designing a programming language wants booleans and conditionals to work.

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quark-zju

require 'term/ansicolor'
require 'logger'

class String
  include Term::ANSIColor
end

class ColorfulLogger < Logger

  def initialize(logdev, shift_age = 0, shift_size = 1048576)

davatron5000

Backstory: I decided to crowdsource static site generator recommendations, so the following are actual real world suggested-to-me results. I then took those and sorted them by language/server and, just for a decent relative metric, their Github Watcher count. If you want a heap of other projects (including other languages like Haskell and Python) Nanoc has the mother of all site generator lists. If you recommend another one, by all means add a comment.

Ruby

• Jekyll 5,676
• Octopress 2,696
• Middleman 685
• NestaCMS 664
• Statis 509
• Nanoc 355

daz

.ui-autocomplete {
  position: absolute;
  top: 100%;
  left: 0;
  z-index: 1000;
  float: left;
  display: none;
  min-width: 160px;
  _width: 160px;
  padding: 4px 0;

them0nk

#Model 

@user.should have(1).error_on(:username) # Checks whether there is an error in username 
@user.errors[:username].should include("can't be blank")  # check for the error message 

#Rendering
response.should render_template(:index)

#Redirecting 
response.should redirect_to(movies_path)

joelverhagen

This is a plugin meant for Jekyll.

Example use:

Easily embed a YouTube video. Just drop this file in your _plugins directory.

{% youtube oHg5SJYRHA0 %}

sethbro

ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
require File.expand_path('../../config/environment', __FILE__)

require 'rubygems'
gem 'minitest'
require 'minitest/autorun'
require 'action_controller/test_case'

require 'miniskirt'
require 'capybara/rails'

Simbul

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# This pre-commit hook will prevent any commit to forbidden branches
# (by default, "staging" and "production").
# Put this file in your local repo, in the .git/hooks folder
# and make sure it is executable.
# The name of the file *must* be "pre-commit" for Git to pick it up.

FORBIDDEN_BRANCHES = ["staging", "production"]

planbnet

#!/usr/bin/env bash

dir=$(dirname $0)
gconfdir=/apps/gnome-terminal/profiles

echo # This makes the prompts easier to follow (as do other random echos below)

########################
### Select a profile ###
########################

brentertz

## Prepare ###################################################################

# Remove RVM
rvm implode

# Ensure your homebrew is working properly and up to date
brew doctor
brew update

## Install ###################################################################