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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

kddnewton

require "json"

struct = { "a" => 1, "b" => 2, "c" => [1, 2, 3], "d" => [{ "e" => 3 }, nil, false, true, [], {}] }
source = JSON.dump(struct)

tokens = []
index = 0

until source.empty?
  tokens <<

timvisee

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

• There are always 24 hours in a day.
• February is always 28 days long.
• Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

smoil

class Account < ActiveRecord::Base

  def self.search(name = nil)
    # search logic
  end
  
end

jdkanani

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<!-- 
For other language: Instead of  `ace/mode/ruby`, Use

Markdown -> `ace/mode/markdown`
Python -> `ace/mode/python`
C/C++ -> `ace/mode/c_cpp`
Javscript -> `ace/mode/javascript`
Java -> `ace/mode/java`
Scala- -> `ace/mode/scala`

cavalle

Cohesion and Big ActiveRecord Models

One of the problems of big ActiveRecord models is their low cohesion. In Rails we group behaviour around the entities of the domain we're modelling. If we use only ActiveRecord models for that, we'll probably end up with classes full of actions, in most cases, completely unrelated to each other (except for the fact that they act on the same domain entity).

To illustrate the issue let's imagine a big Post AR model of a blog application. In this app, users can add tags to their posts. Since this is the only class with this ability, I decide to put the related logic in the Post model itself. For this, presumably at the beginning of the file, I write a couple of has_many entries for tags and taggings. Then, fifty lines below, along with the rest of scopes, I add one more to find posts by tag name. A couple of hundred lines later, I put a virtual attribute tag_list which will be used to update the associations from a string of tag names separated by commas. Fin

coffeencoke

Symlink for static files

Among applying the changes in the other files in this gist, you need to symlink the directory you are serving the app with in the root app's public directory so that NGINX can serve the static files in the sub-app.

For example, if you have an app at /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public as your root app, and you have the sub app served at http://app.coffeencoke.com/admin, then you need to symlink /home/coffeencoke/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/current/public to /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public/admin like so:

ln -s /home/coffeencoke/apps/admin-app.coffeencoke.com/current/public /home/coffeencoke/apps/app.coffeencoke.com/current/public/admin

DAddYE

class ImageUploader < CarrierWave::Uploader::Base
  include CarrierWave::MiniMagick
  storage :file

  def thumb(size)
    begun_at = Time.now
    size.gsub!(/#/, '!')
    uploader = Class.new(self.class)
    uploader.versions.clear
    uploader.version_names = [size]

dhh

# autoload concerns
module YourApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.autoload_paths += %W(
      #{config.root}/app/controllers/concerns
      #{config.root}/app/models/concerns
    )
  end
end

igrigorik

def tip(msg); puts; puts msg; puts "-"*100; end

#
# 30 Ruby 1.9 Tips, Tricks & Features:
# http://www.igvita.com/2011/02/03/new-ruby-19-features-tips-tricks/
#

tip "Upgrading to Ruby 1.9 is simple: rvm install 1.9.2 && rvm --default 1.9.2"

tip "Ruby 1.9 supports named captures in regular expressions!"