Command for starting an IRB simple prompt session
11/15/14 Public, Command Line
Into the command line type $ irb --simple-prompt
1 vote - brookemcg
11/09/14 Public, Cheat Sheets
Ruby: http://overapi.com/ruby/
jQuery: http://overapi.com/jquery/
Great site. Also contains cheat sheets for Git, HTML, MySQL, JavaScript and more.
1 vote - harrylevine
Using jQuery to return which item is selected in a group of radio buttons, in a form
11/10/14 Public, Other Languages
Here is a snippet of code from a form for a group of radio buttons:
<p>Age group:</p>
<label><input type="radio" id="age0" name="age" value="-30" /> under 30</label>
<label><input type="radio" id="age1" name="age" value="30-50" check...
1 vote - harrylevine
Using jQuery to determine if a checkbox from a form is or is not checked
11/08/14 Public, Other Languages
Here is a snippet of code from a form for a checkbox with a label:
<label><input type="checkbox" id="like" name="like" checked="checked" /> I like jQuery</label>
This line of jQuery will determine if the box is checked, and log...
1 vote - harrylevine
Using jQuery to determine if an item from a form's drop-down menu is or is not selected
11/08/14 Public, Other Languages
Here is a snippet of code from a form for a drop-down menu containing choices:
<select id="skills" name="skills">
<option value="none">please select…</option>
<option value="html">HTML</option>
<option value="css">CSS</...
1 vote - harrylevine
Tool to help learn and understand CSS selectors
11/08/14 Public, Online Resources, Other Languages
This tool will tell you the CSS selectors you will need in order to target an area or areas of your page. This applies directly to writing CSS and to writing jQuery.
Can be installed as a Chrome extension, or a bo...
1 vote - harrylevine
Chrome developer tools keyboard shortcuts for Mac
11/08/14 Public, Shortcuts
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/shortcuts
1 vote - harrylevine
11/07/14 Public, Tricks, Ruby General
To take an array like:
[1, 3, 'two', 5]
and have it result in an array of pairs such as:
[[1, 3], 'two', 5]]
You can use each_slice method.
array.each_slice(2)
Provided, of course, that array is assigned the original ...
2 votes - kotp
Determine what gems in your project have newer versions available
11/08/14 Public, Rails General, Gems
Run bundle outdated
To help decide if you want to take action and update a particular gem, view the gem's changelog.
For example, if there is an updated version of Devise available, Google devise changelog
to determine what has been ch...
1 vote - harrylevine
Updating Rails version for a patch update, i.e. from 4.1.1 to 4.1.7
11/07/14 Public, Command Line, Gems, Rails General
gem 'rails', '4.1.7'
bundle
1 vote - harrylevine