Symmetrical yfkhar

Web fonts are pretty much all the rage. Using a CDN for font libraries, like TypeKit or Google Fonts, will be a great solution for many projects. For others, this is not an option. Especially when you are creating a custom icon library for your project.

Rails and the asset pipeline are great tools, but Rails has yet to get caught up in the custom web font craze.

As with all things Rails, there is more then one way to skin this cat. There is the recommended way, and then there are the other ways.

The recommended way

Here I will show how to update your Rails project so that you can use the asset pipeline appropriately and resource your files using the common Rails convention.

Pry Cheat Sheet

Youtube Tutorial 2013

Command Line

pry -r ./config/app_init_file.rb - load your app into a pry session (look at the file loaded by config.ru)
pry -r ./config/environment.rb - load your rails into a pry session

Debugger

Run rails new --help to view all of the options you can pass to rails new:

$ bin/rails new --help
Usage:
  rails new APP_PATH [options]

Options:
  -r, [--ruby=PATH]                                      # Path to the Ruby binary of your choice
                                                         # Default: /Users/eliot/.rbenv/versions/2.2.0/bin/ruby

Sending emails with ActionMailer and Sidekiq

Send email asynchroniously using Sidekiq.

ActionMailer

Create your mailer us usual:

How to generate and apply patches with git?

It sometimes happen you need change code on a machine from which you cannot push to the repo. You’re ready to copy/paste what diff outputs to your local working copy.

You think there must be a better way to proceed and you’re right. It’s a simple 2 steps process:

1. Generate the patch:

git diff &gt; some-changes.patch

Vanilla JavaScript Quick Reference / Cheatsheet

Just migrated it from Codepen.io to markdown. Credit goes to David Conner.

Working with DOM	Working with JS	Working With Functions
Accessing Dom Elements	Add/Remove Array Item	Add Default Arguments to Function
Grab Children/Parent Node(s)	Add/Remove Object Properties	Throttle/Debounce Functions
Create DOM Elements	Conditionals

If you're storing anything in MySQL databases that you do not want to lose, it is very important to make regular backups of your data to protect it from loss. This tutorial will show you two easy ways to backup and restore the data in your MySQL database. You can also use this process to move your data to a new web server.

Back up From the Command Line (using mysqldump)

Back up your MySQL Database with Compress

Restoring your MySQL Database

Backing Up and Restoring using PHPMyAdmin

tmux Cheat Sheet

Table of Contents

General Usage
Shortcuts
Commands
Scripting tmux
Configuring tmux

	Rails.application.routes.draw do

	get '/(:locale)/products/(:category)/(page/:page).:extension',
	:to => 'products#index',
	:as => :products,
	:constraints => {
	:locale => /[a-z]{2}/,
	:category => /.+?/,
	:page => /\d+/
	},

	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