Month-first date string no longer parses correctly

The following date format won’t be parsed correctly:

'06/15/2008'.to_date 

Use this instead:

Date.strptime("6/15/2012", '%m/%d/%Y')

Example of usage

e.g.

str = ActiveSupport::StringInquirer.new('test')

str.test? # => true
str.foobar? # => false

more_than? instance method

Over the weekend I kept running into instances where I was writing code like this:

Code example

arr = ['hello', 'world']

if arr.length > 2
 # do stuff
else
 # do something else
end

So I ended up extending the core and adding an instance method of more_than?

Code example

class Array
  def more_than?(num)
    length > num
  end
end

Usage

arr = ['hello', 'world']
puts "Hello" if arr.more_than? 1

:disable_with is deprecated

Or you can use this way:

<%= submit_tag "Login", data: { disable_with: "Please wait.." } %>

:disable_with is deprecated

Since version 3.2.5 you should not use :disable_with.

Use this:

<%= submit_tag "Login", 'data-disable-with' => "Please wait.." %>

You can remove leading Zeros this way as well

By just adding a - symbol.

%-I %-d

This method does not work.

It’s an old problem, reported back in 2010, just reopened issue:

http://github.com/rails/rails/issues/6620

Accepted parameters for validate

Validate method also accepts :on and :if parameters. The default value for :on is :save, the other accepted values are :create and :update

class Comment
  include ActiveModel::Validations

  validate :must_be_friends, :on => :create, :if => Proc.new {|comment| some_condition}

  def must_be_friends
    errors.add(:base, "Must be friends to leave a comment") unless commenter.friend_of?(commentee)
  end
end

rindex with identically array elements

Code Example

a = [1,1,1]
a.rindex( a.min ) #=> 2

similar to clone

See the clone documentation. I see that ActiveRecord is moving from “clone” (3.0.9) to “dup” (?).

Beware nested with_options clobbers!

Careful:

with_options :foo => :bar do |something|
  something.with_options :foo => :baz do |inner|
    what_is(:foo)
  end
end

:foo will be :baz. It will not be [:bar, :baz], for example.

This bit me when trying to do nested with_options for validation where both had :if => something.

If you try to use :id as a non-primary-key field

If you’re using this so that you can repurpose :id for another use, it gets hairy: your ActiveRecord::Base subclass will still use :id to refer to your primary key, whatever it be named.

So when you call [my obj].id = 33, 33 is set as the value of your primary key, not your :id attribute!

Starts with capital letter alternative

Just adding an anchor to the regular expression seems simpler (and was faster in my benchmarks, not that that matters much):

'Abracadabra' =~ /^[A-Z]/

railz

heyyyy

STI - Making callbacks trigger in inherited classes

Assuming we have

class ParentClass < ActiveRecord::Base
   attr_accessible :type
end

class ChildClass < ParentClass
   after_save :perform_something
end

Executing

ParentClass.create({:type => "ChildClass"})

will not trigger ChildClass callbacks. What is more, it will return instance of ParentClass instead of ChildClass.

To resolve this issue, you need to define following module

module ActiveRecord
  module CallbacksAwareSti
    extend ActiveSupport::Concern
    module ClassMethods
      def new(*args, &block)
        return super(*args, &block) unless args.first.respond_to?(:with_indifferent_access)
        type = args.first.with_indifferent_access[:type]
        if type.blank? or (type = type.constantize) == self
          super(*args, &block)
        else
          super(*args, &block).becomes(type)
        end
      end
    end
  end
end

and include it in parent class

class ParentClass < ActiveRecord::Base
   include ActiveRecord::CallbacksAwareSti
   attr_accessible :type
end

Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4518935/activerecord-problems-using-callbacks-and-sti

Undefined Method `mktmpdir' for Dir:Class

Be sure to

require 'tmpdir'

before using it. Read more at http://mikbe.tk/2011/03/07/temporary-directory.

block only and except

Code

class Journal < ActionController::Base
  # Require authentication for edit and delete.
  before_filter :authorize, :only => [:edit, :delete]

  # Passing options to a filter with a block.
  around_filter(:except => :index) do |controller, action_block|
    results = Profiler.run(&action_block)
    controller.response.sub! "</body>", "#{results}</body>"
  end

  private
    def authorize
      # Redirect to login unless authenticated.
    end
end

Hidden Field Example

Here’s a pseudo code example of a hidden field within an ERB template. A post has many comments and this comment form is in a post’s show view. This would set a comment’s post_id attribute.

<%= form_for(@comment) do |f| %>

<%= f.hidden_field :post_id, :value => @post.id %>

<% end %>

Starts with a Capital Letter

(or any regular expression you’d like)

'Abracadabra'[0..0] =~ /[A-Z]/       # => true

method to use instead

This may be obvious, but the replacement for this method is csrf_meta_tags.

Example from Code School

module Tweets

 class ShowPresenter
   extend ActiveSupport::Memoizable

   def initialize(tweet)
     @tweet = tweet
   end

   def username
     @tweet.user.username
   end

   def status
     @tweet.status
   end

   def favorites_count
     @tweet.favorites.count
   end

   memoize :username, :status, :favorites_count

 end
end

From http://railsbest.com/

Dir

The documentation is using File.directory?(“/path/to/directory”), but the method being referred to is Dir.exists?().

Dir.exists?(".")
 => true

The source code is the same as File.directory?().

MUCH easier way to pluralize without the number...

Just use Ruby!

"string".pluralize(count)

HTML5 data- attributes using RESTful approach

HTML5 specifies extensible attributes like data-foo=“bar” (or as in Twitter Bootstrap data-toggle=“modal”), which poses two problems for Rails.

First, if you’re using symbol notation in link_to to specify attributes, this fails (dash is not a valid symbol character), so

Invalid!

link_to "Edit", @user, :class => "btn", :data-toggle => "modal"

There are two solutions:

1. put the symbols in quotes,

2. use the special :data hash

Solution 1: Quote Symbols

link_to "Edit", @user, :class => "btn", "data-toggle" => "modal"

Solution 2: Use the :data hash

link_to "Edit", @user, :class => "btn", :data => {:toggle => "modal"}

Resulting HTML

<a href="/users/1" class="btn", data-toggle="modal">Edit</a>

The second is minimally documented, but as a hash, can accept multiple values and is perhaps a little cleaner

BasicObject.new

Instantiates a new blank object (devoid of methods). The only class method of class BasicObject. see “ri BasicObject”

eg,

> o=BasicObject.new (Object doesn’t support #inspect)

>

> o.methods NoMethodError: undefined method `methods’ for #<BasicObject:0x0000000267a0a0>

> def o.to_s > self > end

> nil

> o

> #<BasicObject:0x0000000267a0a0>

I got it

Perfect match to work with attr_accessible

Locale

To change default locale by the parameter you can set :locale option, like below:

select_date 'user', 'birth', :locale => 'de'

Missed close tag

At the page http://apidock.com/rails/ActionView/Helpers/TagHelper/tag

<tt>.data()</tt> should be instead of <tt>.data()<tt>

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Looks like this method has trouble with attributes:

ex:

require 'rubygems'
require 'bundler'
require 'active_support/core_ext'
require 'pp'

xml  = 
  '<test id="appears">
    <comment id="doesnt appear">
      it worked
    </comment>
    <comment>
     see!
    </comment>
    <comment />
  </test>'

hash = Hash.from_xml(xml)

pp hash

#=>{"test"=>{"id"=>"appears", "comment"=>["it worked", "see!", nil]}}

# Notice how the id attribute on the first comment element doesn't appear.