The response object responds to several of the symbol types as messages. So you can simply do: expect(response).to be_success expect(response).to be_error expect(response).to be_missing expect(response).to be_redirect For the other types, such as :created, you can create a simple custom matcher for this which wraps assert_response: RSpec::Matchers.define :have_status do |type, message = nil| match do |_response| assert_response … Read more
htop author here. No, there’s no “nice” way to get the output of htop piped into a file. It is an interactive application and uses terminal redraw routines to produce its interface (therefore, piping it makes as much sense as, for example, piping vim into a text file — you’ll get similar results). To get … Read more
Twitter dates in specific are interesting because they are relative only for the first day. After 24 hours they just show the month and day. After a year they start showing the last two digits of the year. Here’s a sample function that does something more akin to Twitter relative dates, though it always shows … Read more
Be careful with allowing a page to render using the same method as Stack overflow. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/820493/random-text-can-cause-problems Black hats can this to cause duplicate content penalty for long tail competitors (trust me). Here are two things you can do to protect yourself from this. HTTP 301 redirect any inbound display url that matches your ID but … Read more
-(NSString*) suffixNumber:(NSNumber*)number { if (!number) return @””; long long num = [number longLongValue]; int s = ( (num < 0) ? -1 : (num > 0) ? 1 : 0 ); NSString* sign = (s == -1 ? @”-” : @”” ); num = llabs(num); if (num < 1000) return [NSString stringWithFormat:@”%@%lld”,sign,num]; int exp = … Read more
This may not the most efficient or optimized way to do it, but it’s easier to read if you are not familiar with log maths, and should be fast enough for most scenarios. string[] sizes = { “B”, “KB”, “MB”, “GB”, “TB” }; double len = new FileInfo(filename).Length; int order = 0; while (len >= … Read more
Here’s one I wrote: /** * Format bytes as human-readable text. * * @param bytes Number of bytes. * @param si True to use metric (SI) units, aka powers of 1000. False to use * binary (IEC), aka powers of 1024. * @param dp Number of decimal places to display. * * @return Formatted string. … Read more