- You MUST NOT try and generate a Rails app from scratch on your own by generating each file. For a NEW app you MUST use
rails new
first to generate all of the boilerplate files necessary. - Create an app in the current directory with
rails new .
- Use Tailwind CSS for styling. Use
--css tailwind
as an option on therails new
call to do this automatically. - Use Ruby 3.2+ and Rails 8.0+ practices.
- Use the default Minitest approach for testing, do not use RSpec.
- Default to using SQLite in development.
rails new
will do this automatically but take care if you write any custom SQL that it is SQLite compatible. - An app can be built with a devcontainer such as
rails new myapp --devcontainer
but only do this if requested directly. - Rails apps have a lot of directories to consider, such as app, config, db, etc.
- Adhere to MVC conventions: singular model names (e.g., Product) map to plural tables (products); controllers are plural.
- Guard against incapable browsers accessing controllers with `allo
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// 3D Dom viewer, copy-paste this into your console to visualise the DOM as a stack of solid blocks. | |
// You can also minify and save it as a bookmarklet (https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-are-bookmarklets/) | |
(() => { | |
const SHOW_SIDES = false; // color sides of DOM nodes? | |
const COLOR_SURFACE = true; // color tops of DOM nodes? | |
const COLOR_RANDOM = false; // randomise color? | |
const COLOR_HUE = 190; // hue in HSL (https://hslpicker.com) | |
const MAX_ROTATION = 180; // set to 360 to rotate all the way round | |
const THICKNESS = 20; // thickness of layers | |
const DISTANCE = 10000; // ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ |
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# Function to create a new Heroku app instance using the ruby Heroku Platform API | |
# | |
# Documentation: | |
# https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/setting-up-apps-using-the-heroku-platform-api | |
# https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference#app-setup | |
# https://github.com/heroku/platform-api | |
# https://heroku.github.io/platform-api | |
# | |
# Add the gem 'platform-api' | |
require "platform-api" |
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# Not Great PNG class. This is a very simple example of writing a PNG. It | |
# only supports colors from the color palette stored in `@palette`. This is | |
# meant to be example code, but I am using it in a program for visualizing | |
# heap dumps from Ruby. | |
# | |
# This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. | |
# | |
# Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or | |
# distribute this software, either in source code form or as a compiled | |
# binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any |
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<div id="container" style="height:100%;"></div> |
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log/ |
This is helpful if you've previously installed git from source on OSX, and other compilers can't find the correct path. You need to remove the current version of git, then re-install with brew.
- Check which git you're running:
which git