Recent notes

link broken

http://apidock.com/rails/ActionDispatch/Request/body <- request body link

Text values for enum

There is way to have text values for enum. It is useful to have localized select options and latin values in database. 1) User model: enum kind: { ‘текст’=>‘text’, ‘изображение’=>‘picture’, ‘звук’=>‘audio’, ‘видео’=>‘video’ } 2) Edit view: <%= select_tag ‘user[kind]’, options_for_select(User.kinds, @user.kind) %>

group on hash

‘

def group_by_hash hash, value
  hash.group_by do |k,v| 
    v > value ? "Big" : "Small"
  end
end

marks = {"Chair" => 30, "Table" => 40, "Bed" => 60, "stool" => 20}
group_by_hash(marks, 30)

Generate Token

For generate a token, make this:

def generate_token
  self.token = SecureRandom.uuid
end

SecureRandom return a number random and the uuid make this number be unique. This a good idea for use in shopping cart, for example

Fetch with default value

You can specify default value as a fail-back if a hash doesn’t have a given key.

{a: false}.fetch(:b, true)
=> true
{a: false}.fetch(:a, true)
=> false

It is useful especially in the case where you want to set default value for a method.

def initialize(args)
  @foo = args.fetch(:foo, 1)
  @bar = args.fetch(:bar, 2)

  # This can take over the following way.
  # `@bar = args[:bar] || 2` 
  # => @bar is overwritten if caller specifies nil for :bar!
end

Params of conditions

You can pass an proc for o callback with the conditions

before_action :initial_value, only: [:index, :show], unless: -> { @foo.nil? }

before_action :initial_value, only: [:index, :show], if: -> { @foo }

Params of conditions

You can pass an proc for o callback with the conditions

after_action :initial_value, only: [:index, :show], unless: -> { @foo.nil? }

after_action :initial_value, only: [:index, :show], if: -> { @foo }

the method to make 'day' disappear.

If you wanna show “year” and “month” only, you can use “order” to do it:

select_date(Date.current, order: [:year, :month])

That’s it.

Creates record by given attributes only if table is empty

This method first searches the table for ANY FIRST RECORD, not the one matching given attributes. If no record is found at all, it creates one using the specified attributes. This might be misunderstood in many cases.

Errno::EEXIST

When Errno::EEXIST is raised, it indicates there are permission issues, rather than an existing item.

What about Marshal remote code execution risks?

Good suggestion about using Marshal to avoid cycles, astgtciv, but what about the security risks of doing that?

See http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.2/Marshal.html where it states:

By design, ::load can deserialize almost any class loaded into the Ruby process. In many cases this can lead to remote code
execution if the Marshal data is loaded from an untrusted source.

As a result, ::load is not suitable as a general purpose serialization format and you should never unmarshal user supplied input or other
untrusted data.

If you need to deserialize untrusted data, use JSON or another serialization format that is only able to load simple, ‘primitive’ types such
as String, Array, Hash, etc. Never allow user input to specify arbitrary types to deserialize into.

Also implemented by other classes

It’s worth noting that this method is also implemented by other classes like Proc, Range and even String.

Most of these are missing proper examples, but you can find some useful examples here:

http://www.blackbytes.info/2015/10/ruby-case/

Setting HTTP_REFERER

If your integration test is checking for correct behavior of a redirect to the request referer, you can set the referring path in the headers hash with syntax like:

patch update_user_role_path, { user: {role: "vip"} }, { 'HTTP_REFERER' => user_url } 
assert_redirected_to user_url

Not quite opposite of new_record?

new_record? will not check if the record has been destroyed

Not quite opposite of persisted?

persisted? will also check if the record has not been destroyed

Rails 3.2.19

As Jebin reported, we are not getting the value in array format when we set the hidden_field_tag with an Array variable, instead it is a String that we are getting.

Find and Detech are the same

@rubynooby: #find and #detect are aliases of the same underlying method. You can use them interchangeably to provide additional readability to your code (find an element to use it or detect if an element is present to do something).

http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.3/Enumerable.html#method-i-find

What you really want is

The official Ruby documentation is available for this here http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.3/libdoc/rss/rdoc/RSS.html

But the library that will be most helpful to you is called Feedjira: http://feedjira.com/

instead of memoize

See this for deprecated github.com/rails/rails/commit/36253916b0b788d6ded56669d37c96ed05c92c5c

use

def something
  return @_var if defined? @_var
  # more code
end

Re: close but no bananna

Actually, @tarasevich is right on this. Let’s have a look at your own example:

[["1","2"],["3","4"]].flat_map {|i| i[0] }     # => ["1", "3"]

[["1","2"],["3","4"]].map {|i| i[0] }.flatten  # => ["1", "3"]
[["1","2"],["3","4"]].flatten.map {|i| i[0] }  # => ["1", "2", "3", "4"]

You are right that both #map and #flatten are non-commutative, it does matter which method is called first.

But #flat_map is equivalent to mapping first and then concatenating (flatten) the results, even if the name might suggest the opposite.

To correctly interpret the method name, you should think of it mathematically as a function composition.

close but no bananna

@tarasevich noted that

a.flat_map(&b) works exactly like a.map(&b).flatten!(1)

This is backwards because map and flatten are not always interchangeable in order. Mapping over the example array only gives you 2 items. This can result in significant differences depending on what you’re doing in the map. This is easier to demonstrate if we change the example to strings.

[["1","2"],["3","4"]].map {|i| i[0] } # => ["1", "3"]
[["1","2"],["3","4"]].map {|i| i[0] }.flatten  # => ["1", "3"]

BUT if you swap the order

[["1","2"],["3","4"]].flatten.map {|i| i[0] } # => ["1", "2", "3", "4"]

in order to remember what it is equivalent to just note that the method name is already in the correct order. flat_map -> flatten + map

Possible bug

Works as expected for non bang methods

>  a={x:1, y:2, z:3}                                                                      
=> {:x=>1, :y=>2, :z=>3}

> a.slice(:y)                                                                             
=> {:y=>2}

> a.except(:y)                                                                            
=> {:x=>1, :z=>3}

Bug on slice! it behaves like except!

> a.clone.slice!(:y)                                                                                                                                                                                
=> {:x=>1, :z=>3}

> a.clone.except!(:y)                                                                                                                                                                               
=> {:x=>1, :z=>3}

slice! should return {:y=>2} and modify a to no longer have it

Multiple files

To use multiple file upload need to use variable_name[].

like this:

file_field_tag 'files[]', :multiple => true  

and in controller:

if !params[ :files ].nil?
  params[ :files ].each{ |file|
     # do your staff
  }
end

"Class methods on your model are automatically available on scopes."

The final example above – “Class methods on your model are automatically available on scopes.” – contains a subtle but vital change from earlier versions of the doc – namely, “pluck” (current example) vs “map” (old example). The former works, the latter does not. See http://github.com/rails/rails/issues/21943 for confirmation that the old documentation is incorrect, and for a workaround.

(Spoiler alert: Use

all.map(&:title)

instead of just

map(&:title)

in order to achieve the same effect.)

"Class methods on your model are automatically available on scopes."

The final example above – “Class methods on your model are automatically available on scopes.” – does not work as written. See http://github.com/rails/rails/issues/21943 for confirmation that the old documentation is incorrect, and for a workaround.

(Spoiler alert: Use

all.map(&:title)

instead of just

map(&:title)

in order to achieve the same effect.)

arel_table order by

More objected way how to achieve ORDOR BY .… DESC is like this :

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :status_changes

  def latest_status_change
    status_changes
     .order(StatusChange.arel_table['created_at'].desc)
     .first
  end
end

class StatusChange < ActiverRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
end

resulting in:

SELECT "status_changes".* FROM "status_changes" WHERE "status_changes"."user_id" = 1 ORDER BY "status_changes"."created_at" DESC

Benefits:

• you are strictly bound to Modelclass name => renaming table in model will not break the sql code (of if it will, it will explicitly break the syntax on Ruby level, not DB level)

• you still have the benefit of explicitly saying what table.column the order should be

• easier to re-factor parts to Query Objects

Getting the return value from the underlying method of an Enumerator

This is documented in the example code, but easy to miss.

When you get an Enumerator using #to_enum(:method_name, …), you can get all of the yielded values using #next, but not the value that is finally returned.

That value can be retrieved via the #result attribute of the StopIteration exception object that is raised when calling #next after the underlying method has returned.

Warning: prevents persistence but doesn't prevent setting

For example:

class Widget < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_readonly :key
end
w = Widget.create! key: 'foo'
w.update! key: 'bar'
w.key #=> 'bar'
w.reload.key #=> 'foo'

Favicon generator

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Text and Image together in #link_to

Code Example

link_to “Hello World #{ image_tag(‘web/worl.png’) }”.html_safe, some_path