Ricky Chilcott rickychilcott

This is a Stimulus controller which will allow a Shoelace Form component to be processed and submitted by Turbo.

Just wrap your <sl-form> control with a form tag:

<%= form_with url: "/test-submit" do %>
  <sl-form data-controller="shoelace-form">
    controls go here
  </sl-form>
&lt;% end %&gt;

Rails 5.2 with webpacker, bootstrap, stimulus starter

This gist will collects all issues we solved with Rails 5.2 and Webpacker

Create Project

# Last few parameters(--skip-* part) is only my habbit not actully required
$ rails new <project_name> --webpack=stimulus --database=postgresql --skip-coffee --skip-test

Building an 'Automatic Gain Control' with SoX

SoX is a great tool for converting and processing audio. As an engineer working at a radio station I find it especially useful for processing audio files so the volume is even and smooth throughout. A recent use case was preparing news bulletins recorded by a non-technical journalist so they sounded clear and loud for an Amazon Alexa skill.

What is an AGC?

Automatic Gain Control (AGC) is an audio processing technique that is designed to smooth out volume differences between different parts of an audio programme. The majority of radio stations will have a device at their transmitter (for example, an Optimod) that does just that. Parts of the broadcast that are two quiet are boosted and parts that are too loud are atenuated.

For those familiar with audio [compressors

Rails has a handy truncate helper (which is actually mostly a method added to String ), but it warns you it's not safe to use on html source, it'll cut off end tags and such.

What if you want an HTML safe one? There are a variety of suggested solutions you can google, none of which were quite robust/powerful enough for me.

So I started with my favorite, by Andrea Singh, using nokogiri.

But:

I modified it to not monkey-patch Nokogiri, but be a static method instead (sadly making already confusing code yet more confusing, but I didn't want to monkey patch nokogiri)

	# app/models/board.rb
	class Board < ApplicationRecord
	has_many :embeds
	end

	trix-toolbar .button_group button::before {
	background-image: none !important;
	font-family: 'FontAwesome';
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height: 28px;
	}

	trix-toolbar .button_group button.bold:before {
	content: '\f032';
	}

	# Don't allow observe/control
	/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -users mdiaguest -access -on -privs -ControlObserve -ShowObserve -OpenQuitApps -RestartShutDown -SendFiles
	/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent

	# Require permission to observe/control
	/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -configure -allowAccessFor -specifiedUsers
	/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users sccadmin -privs -all

	# Allow everything
	/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -users sccadmin -access -on -privs -ALL

	#!/bin/bash

	# List of users to keep
	KEEP=$( cat <<EOL
	/Users/admin
	/Users/administrator
	/Users/sccadmin
	/Users/scclab
	/Users/Shared
	/Users/Search

	#!/bin/sh

	# Create a package for SPSS's silent installer using FPM. We do this because the "silent"
	# installer requires a user to be logged in so that the Java installer will run. It
	# has only been tested with version 21. FPM is just a convenience here - substituting
	# pkgbuild will work if you create a pkg root structure yourself.
	#
	# It requires one argument, the path to the .bin silent installer.
	#
	# Configure VERSION, ID_PREFIX, INSTALL_DIR to your liking. We set INSTALL_DIR to its