%w(foo bar) is a shortcut for [“foo”, “bar”]. Meaning it’s a notation to write an array of strings separated by spaces instead of commas and without quotes around them. You can find a list of ways of writing literals in zenspider’s quickref.
TL;DR: Use StandardError instead for general exception catching. When the original exception is re-raised (e.g. when rescuing to log the exception only), rescuing Exception is probably okay. Exception is the root of Ruby’s exception hierarchy, so when you rescue Exception you rescue from everything, including subclasses such as SyntaxError, LoadError, and Interrupt. Rescuing Interrupt prevents … Read more
First, the class << foo syntax opens up foo‘s singleton class (eigenclass). This allows you to specialise the behaviour of methods called on that specific object. a=”foo” class << a def inspect ‘”bar”‘ end end a.inspect # => “bar” a=”foo” # new object, new singleton class a.inspect # => “foo” Now, to answer the question: … Read more
Use the -v flag: $ gem install fog -v 1.8
What happens When the user views a form to create, update, or destroy a resource, the Rails app creates a random authenticity_token, stores this token in the session, and places it in a hidden field in the form. When the user submits the form, Rails looks for the authenticity_token, compares it to the one stored … Read more
You just add the following line to your local ~/.gemrc file (it is in your home folder): gem: –no-document by echo ‘gem: –no-document’ >> ~/.gemrc or you can add this line to the global gemrc config file. Here is how to find it (in Linux): strace gem source 2>&1 | grep gemrc The –no-document option … Read more
For Rails 3.2 or Rails 4+ You should use request.original_url to get the current URL. Source code on current repo found here. This method is documented at original_url method, but if you’re curious, the implementation is: def original_url base_url + original_fullpath end For Rails 3: You can write “#{request.protocol}#{request.host_with_port}#{request.fullpath}”, since request.url is now deprecated. For … Read more
Let’s say you have a class Person. class Person end person = Person.new person.name # => no method error Obviously we never defined method name. Let’s do that. class Person def name @name # simply returning an instance variable @name end end person = Person.new person.name # => nil person.name = “Dennis” # => no … Read more
You can specify formal arguments in rake by adding symbol arguments to the task call. For example: require ‘rake’ task :my_task, [:arg1, :arg2] do |t, args| puts “Args were: #{args} of class #{args.class}” puts “arg1 was: ‘#{args[:arg1]}’ of class #{args[:arg1].class}” puts “arg2 was: ‘#{args[:arg2]}’ of class #{args[:arg2].class}” end task :invoke_my_task do Rake.application.invoke_task(“my_task[1, 2]”) end # … Read more
.nil? can be used on any object and is true if the object is nil. .empty? can be used on strings, arrays and hashes and returns true if: String length == 0 Array length == 0 Hash length == 0 Running .empty? on something that is nil will throw a NoMethodError. That is where .blank? … Read more