Rails Webapp Engineering

The day after I came back from Australia, I started my new job at Coupa Software. I'm absolutely loving it at the moment because of the awesome people and the amount of software I'm learning. Here's just a few that I've picked up in my first week that I'd like to jot down.

Here's one article about it. It really really helps out with testing.

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• cmd-k clears terminal window

• rake stats

• script/spec for an individual test

• send_data, send_file

• render_to_string - returns string, use with send_data

• Enumerable:inject

  • same as Scheme accumulator I used in 61A

• PDF::SimpleTable

  • really really easy to use reporter generator.

• request.xhr? - if request is ajax-y

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(RAILS_ENV.to_sym)
connection = ActiveRecord::Base.connection

options[:tables] ||= connection.tables.reject { |t| %w(schema_info
sessions).include?(t) }