Notes posted by syborg

:defaults no longer work

I’m afraid that :defaults option doesn’t work anymore.

<%= javascript_include_tag :defaults %>

it loads “defaults.js”

Instead, to load all .js files now use

<%= javascript_include_tag "application" %>

Alternative way to show relative paths from absolute globbing

An alternative to show relative paths is using the well known String#sub! method

base_dir = File.expand_path("my_dir") << "/" # don't miss adding "/"
files = Dir[File.join(base_dir, '**', '*.html.gz')]
p files.map {|f| f.sub!(base_dir,"")}

Generalized Zip

My 5 cents.

I find trully useful this. Is a kind of generalized zip. You can combine 2 or more enumerables (arrays or others) of any size into a hash, array of arrays, .… The size of the result is the size of the bigest of the enumerables. For the shortests enumerables nil elements are used at the end.

# method compose
def compose(*enumerables)
  res=[]
  enumerables.map(&:size).max.times do
    tupla=[]
    for enumerable in enumerables
      tupla << enumerable.shift
    end
    res << (block_given? ? yield(tupla) : tupla)
  end
  res
end

some examples:

en1= [1, 2, 3, 4]
en2= ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']
en3= {:elem1 => "1", :elem2 => "2", :elem3 => "3"}

p compose en1.dup, en2.dup, en3.dup
p a1=compose(en2.dup, en1.dup) {|a,b| {a.to_sym => b}}

p a1.inject({}) {|ac,item| ac.merge item}
p a1.flatten

p a2=compose(en2.dup, en1.dup).flatten
p Hash[*a2]

p a3=compose(en2.dup, en3.dup).flatten

Their outputs are:

#[[1, "a", [:elem1, "1"]], [2, "b", [:elem2, "2"]], [3, "c", [:elem3, "3"]], [4, "d", nil], [nil, "e", nil]]
#[{:a=>1}, {:b=>2}, {:c=>3}, {:d=>4}, {:e=>nil}]
#{:b=>2, :d=>4, :e=>nil, :c=>3, :a=>1}
#[{:a=>1}, {:b=>2}, {:c=>3}, {:d=>4}, {:e=>nil}]
#["a", 1, "b", 2, "c", 3, "d", 4, "e", nil]
#{"a"=>1, "b"=>2, "c"=>3, "d"=>4, "e"=>nil}
#["a", :elem1, "1", "b", :elem2, "2", "c", :elem3, "3", "d", nil, "e", nil]