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
Custom recipe to get macOS 10.12 Sierra running from scratch, setup applications and developer environment. This is very similar (and currently mostly the same) as my 10.11 El Capitan setup recipe and 10.10 Yosemite setup recipe. I am currently tweaking this for 10.12 Sierra and expect to refine this gist over the next few weeks.
I use this gist to keep track of the important software and steps required to have a functioning system after a semi-annual fresh install. I generally reinstall each computer from scratch every 6 months, and I do not perform upgrades between releases.
This keeps the system performing at top speeds, clean of trojans, spyware, and ensures that I maintain good organizational practices for my content and backups. I highly recommend this.
You are encouraged to fork this and modify it to your heart's content to match your o
I've been following this blog post on how to set up an api-only Rails 5 application. One of the sections talks about creating a subdomain for your api
Rails.application.routes.draw do
constraints subdomain: "api" do
scope module: "api" do
| { | |
| "keys": ["tab"], | |
| "command": "expand_abbreviation_by_tab", | |
| // put comma-separated syntax selectors for which | |
| // you want to expandEmmet abbreviations into "operand" key | |
| // instead of SCOPE_SELECTOR. | |
| // Examples: source.js, text.html - source | |
| "context": [ | |
| { |
| # Sidekiq interaction and startup script | |
| commands: | |
| create_post_dir: | |
| command: "mkdir -p /opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post" | |
| ignoreErrors: true | |
| files: | |
| "/opt/elasticbeanstalk/hooks/appdeploy/post/50_restart_sidekiq.sh": | |
| mode: "000755" | |
| owner: root | |
| group: root |
| class QueueSizeMetricWorker | |
| include Sidekiq::Worker | |
| include Sidetiq::Schedulable | |
| recurrence { minutely } | |
| sidekiq_options retry: false | |
| # Publish a custom metric on CloudWatch with the Sidekiq queue size | |
| def perform | |
| cloudwatch = Aws::CloudWatch::Client.new( |
| require "net/http" | |
| def start_server | |
| # Remove the X to enable the parameters for tuning. | |
| # These are the default values as of Ruby 2.2.0. | |
| @child = spawn(<<-EOC.split.join(" ")) | |
| XRUBY_GC_HEAP_FREE_SLOTS=4096 | |
| XRUBY_GC_HEAP_INIT_SLOTS=10000 | |
| XRUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_FACTOR=1.8 | |
| XRUBY_GC_HEAP_GROWTH_MAX_SLOTS=0 |
A class should have only a single responsibility.
Every class should have a single responsibility, and that responsibility should be entirely encapsulated. All its services should be narrowly aligned with that responsibility, this embrace the high cohesion.
Software entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
| require 'rails_helper' | |
| RSpec.describe TodosController, :type => :controller do | |
| describe "GET #index" do | |
| #describe "POST #create" do | |
| #describe "GET #show" do | |
| #describe "PATCH #update" do (or PUT #update) | |
| #describe "DELETE #destroy" do | |
| #describe "GET #new" do |
| HTTP status code symbols for Rails | |
| Thanks to Cody Fauser for this list of HTTP responce codes and their Ruby on Rails symbol mappings. | |
| Status Code Symbol | |
| 1xx Informational | |
| 100 :continue | |
| 101 :switching_protocols | |
| 102 :processing |