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At times it's more readable to use the plural of a model instead of singular. For instance Products.for_indexing instead of Product.for_indexing. This can be accomplished through a simple initializer that creates the plural model automatically.
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My answer to an Ask HN. Use the db-updates-as-code for your framework, make the system fudgeable and have an audit log. (118)
Similar to the actor model pattern, the functional model pattern creates multiple models that operate on the same table. But instead of focusing on the user type that primarily accesses it, it focuses on the functionality required. It works well for different stages of a base model. (685)
How to get all the methods in Rails controllers, models and services (155)
:after and specifically classes can be populated with user-specific content using CSS so that cached elements don't have to be duplicated for minor variations. (725)
If you are making use of a serviceworker to cache JS or CSS or you’re rendering some JS server-side you have to have the full path to the file.If, at the same time, you’re using... (111)
This improves readability especially for scopes that are very feature specific (342)
I make use of the rails_amp gem in the affiliate site. It generates AMP from normal views.One of it’s features is automatically converting the image_tag into the AMP compatible ... (254)
A useful pattern that I didn’t see documented before is what I call “state params”: returning different permitted params based on the state of the record.If there is an order mo... (180)
In the course of doing upgrades for an older project I’ve discovered that not every activerecord version is compatible with every mysql2 version. The adapters use ~> to lock ... (147)
They don't seem to be worth it (185)
Very useful sort in scenarios where context is tied to a date (437)
Had a scenario for the Supplybunny API where an endpoint needed to return a combination of live and cached data.The cached part was already in use in a few places. The new endpo... (132)
A while ago I was working on the audit log and wanted to store both the user and the name. That way the name remains and can be shown if the user is deleted. The audited gem sto... (178)
I’ve had this in my notes for a long time. In order to not upload files to your public/ folder, which is the default for carrier wave, it’s really simple. Just need to change a ... (282)
A pretty neat thing I realized while building the search for Supplybunny is that you can use the results from elastic search to generate the cache keys that rails generates.The ... (456)
A while ago I needed to improve the canonical links for some of our pages, specifically because we added more search parameters etc. so I made use of routes file to create some ... (445)
It sounds so obvious when spelled out but you can use multiple timestamps in Rails models that each individually can serve as cache keys for different views. For example say you... (641)
Split config accepts a host string directly as well as an instance of Redis. Therefore, we can use Redis to connect split to a password protected redis server. # config/initali... (74)
In order to retry an inbound message that timed out, take a look at thePostmarkapp API documentation here.First, we need to get the server API token that can be found on the cre... (101)
In order to upload a file in a cucumber test, that is to use a file select input, define the following in your user_steps.rb: Then(/^I fill in number field "(.*?)" with "(.*?)"... (75)
In order to upload a file in a cucumber test, that is to use a file select input, define the following in your user_steps.rb: And(/^I attach "(.*?)" to "(.*?)"$/) do |field, fi... (67)
In order to consistently display dates in a Rails application the strftime format can be set globally.#config/initializers/time_formats.rbDate::DATE_FORMATS[:default] = "%d/%m/%... (59)
To count the number of elements that is in a jQuery nested attributes container we can extend the plugin to have the following method (coffeescript): itemCount: -> @$item... (86)
Occasionally you’d need to have a user who’s not registered preform an action and only enter their email address the result of which creates an account. For example when you wan... (236)