Shortened, one line version of a spec

04/25/17  Public, Testing / TDD

Here is the full syntax version of a spec:

it "returns no results" do
  expect(results).to be_nil
end

Here is the same spec, in the shortened, one line version:

it { expect(results).to be_nil }

Disable an ES lint rule - inline

04/24/17  Public, Other Languages

http://eslint.org/docs/user-guide/configuring#disabling-rules-with-inline-comments

The linting error I was receiving was:

Do not mutate state directly. Use setState() 

Here is an example of applying the inline disabling of the r...

Expand out html tags in React jsx files using Emmet

02/18/17  Public, Shortcuts

control + e

turns span.blah into <span className="blah"></span>

Shortcut for bringing up mission control in a Mac

01/16/17  Public, Shortcuts

control + up arrow

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204100

Shortcut for highlighting URL in chrome

01/16/17  Public, Shortcuts

command + L

Free course on how to contribute to an open source project

12/27/16  Public, Git

Great free course on how to contribute to an open source project. Includes all of the small, integral steps that are key to the contribution process.

https://egghead.io/courses/how-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project-on-github

Here are s...

Scroll to a section (link) in the existing page properly, without hiding the section header

11/01/16  Public, Other Languages

https://css-tricks.com/hash-tag-links-padding/#article-header-id-1

Creating a local copy of the routes.rb file to speed up your grepping of the routes

10/08/16  Public, Command Line, Rails General

Grepping your routes.rb file, for decent size projects, can take a long time. One solution to speed up this process is to create a local copy of the current state of your routes.rb ...

before_* callbacks rollback transactions if its method returns false

10/05/16  Public, Rails Errors, Troubleshooting

I had a form, where in one of the fields, the user was clicking a drop-down menu, and choosing between one of three choices.

After the form was submitted, I had a callback that was doing something to the record.

When the user selected op...

Encode an SVG file using base64 encoding

09/22/16  Public, Command Line, Tricks, Other Languages

Here is how to encode an SVG file, using base64 encoding, and then leverage the encoded string to set an element's background-image property to the SVG file in question.

1 - Open up an irb session
2 - Read the file into a variable, using...