CSS stylesheet not being included in the application.css tree

07/16/15  Public, Other Languages

If the global application.css isn’t attempting to include per-view stylesheets, add something like this to the top of your view:

<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'support_calls/dashboard' %>

In this example, the path to the view file is...

Git squash and merge two commits into one

08/13/15  Public, Git

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2563632/how-can-i-merge-two-commits-into-one

$ git rebase --abort
$ git rebase --interactive HEAD~2

If you want to squash all of the commits back to origin/master run: $ git rebase -i master

You...

Using git bisect to troubleshoot

06/30/15  Public, Troubleshooting

Occasionally, something added to a gem used by one of your projects will break your application. Finding out where, when, and how it broke can be a challenge...

https://mojolingo.com/blog/2013/using-git-bisect-to-troubleshoot-ruby-gems/

Create a link from GitHub that brings you directly to a specifically highlighted set of lines in a file

06/24/15  Public, Git

1. Navigate to the file in the GitHub repo
2. Click on the line numbers you want to highlight (use the shift key to highlight multiple lines)
3. Copy the link from the address bar

See and force the hover state in Google Chrome editor

06/19/15  Public, Troubleshooting

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4515124/see-hover-state-in-chrome-developer-tools

rbenv not showing the correct ruby version

06/19/15  Public, Ruby General

If you don't see the version of ruby in the list you need when you run rbenv install --list

run:

$ brew update && brew reinstall --HEAD ruby-build

then install the ruby version, i.e. rbenv install 2.2.1

From: https://github.com/H...

Array.map shortcut

05/24/15  Public, Ruby General

In Ruby code, you quite often see the trick of using an expression like:
array.map(&:method_name) as a shorthand form of
array.map { |element| element.method_name }

From: http://www.toptal.com/ruby/interview-questions

Load a file into IRB from the root directory's perspective

05/24/15  Public, Command Line

• Begin withload
• Followed by a ~, which represents the root directory
• followed by the file path, from the root directory, to the file in question

For example:

$ load '~/Dropbox/Coding/Sandbox/Random/bench_kill_data.rb'

Git reset one file

04/08/15  Public, Git

$ git checkout HEAD -- my-file.txt

For example:

$ git checkout HEAD -- README.md

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7147270/hard-reset-of-a-single-file

RSpec Expectation Matchers

04/02/15  Public, Testing / TDD

RSpec list of available Expectation Matchers. From the Lynda.com course RSpec Testing Framework with Ruby