Kill All Spring Processes
If you’re an active Rails user in multiple projects like me, you’ll probably would’ve noticed that at some point, you forgot to turn off spring in those proj...
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Testing jQuery animations in Jasmine
The simplest, and fastest way is to simply ignore the animations with setting jQuery.fx.off = true and checking for whatever the final result is:
Throttle Down Rails Processes
TL;DR: You can use renice. For each process named process{n}, you can write something like
Use HTML/CSS/JS plugins for VueJS files
Often vim plugins and configs activate for a certain filetype, so set your filetype in the current buffer. For example, I want currently want to use html hig...
Migrating Your Capybara Driver from PhantomJS to Headless ChromeDriver
Newsflash: Vitaly Slobodin, the PhantomJS maintainer, is stepping down, since Google Chrome version 59 will ship with its own headless option. This means you...
Testing Subdomains in Cabybara
TL;DR: Change Capybara.app_host in a setup and teardown mechanism in your favorite testing framework. You can also create a method that temporarily changes t...
Change your default terminal editor
TL;DR: set BUNDLER_EDITOR, GEM_EDITOR, EDITOR, VISUAL to your favorite text editor, i.e.:
Download files from flaky websites using wget
I hate slow donwloads. Moreso if I’m download big files (e.g. copying over a huge database from AWS S3. It hasn’t occurred to me until recently that I can us...
Profiling Vim
I’ve been using a pretty popular dotfile repo, YADR, for quite some time now. I’ve used it for so long that I’ve even made contributions to the project here ...
How to Say “No” When It Matters
Yesterday, a cousin of mine requested me to be the emcee of the renewal of their vows this coming December. I used to say yes to these type of requests due t...
Pomo.sh - Stupidly Simple Pomodoro on macOS
One day, I was busy at work and found myself working on a macOS workstation that doesn’t have any pomodoro app. While looking for apps online, an interesting...
A Sane way of Slowly Adopting Code Conventions
Legacy ruby projects are often littered with code that just doesn’t follow any kind of code convention. Each developer that had a hand in a certain codebase ...
Create your own rake console
I’ve been working on small ruby gems lately of the same theme: ruby wrappers to different kinds of interfaces, be it a RESTful API, SOAP API, or even shell c...
Fix Slow Terminal Loading Time
Occasionally, my terminal becomes slow because I’m running out of memory. What I usually do close the most memory consuming tasks from the Mac OS X’s Activit...
Faster Rails Boot Times (and Tests)
I’ve been in a number of rails projects, but the one I’m currently handling right now has about 200+ models — the biggest rails project I’ve seen so far.
How NOT to Validate Classes in Ruby Web Apps
If you’re a rails developer, you’ve probably seen code that looks like this:
Reverting Bad Pull Requests in GitHub
Recently, I’ve accidentally merged a bad pull request in GitHub. What I had to do was git revert that merge commit and then work on a new branch that starts ...
Web Apps vs. Websites
Oftentimes, people ask me what I do for a living. And when they do, I always try to convey it in the simplest, least alienating way possible. So far, my stan...
Remote Pair Programming
Last Thursday night, I had my first attempt at remote pair programming with Ramon (@rtayag), a colleague of mine. I didn’t have a particular project to work ...
First Post!
Hello! If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that I don’t have to introduce myself, but I’m going to do that anyway just to get done with the formalities....