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To display address profile fields as markers on a google map, the address field objects need to be passed as json objects to javascript. Regular database attributes When calling to_json on an ApplicationRecord object, the database attributes are automatically exposed. Given a ProfileFields::Addre...

If you need to search an ActiveRecord model for similar values, you might be tempted to use LIKE or ILIKE but this isn't portable between database engines. Similarly, resorting to always downcasing or upcasing can create performance issues. You can use ActiveRecord's underlying Arel matches method...

NotificationCompat.Builder mBuilder = (NotificationCompat.Builder) new NotificationCompat.Builder(context) .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.some_small_icon) .setContentTitle("Title") .setContentText("This is a test notification with MAX priority")...

A has_many :through association is often used to set up a many-to-many connection with another model. This association indicates that the declaring model can be matched with zero or more instances of another model by proceeding through a third model. For example, consider a medical practice where p...

A has_one :through association sets up a one-to-one connection with another model. This association indicates that the declaring model can be matched with one instance of another model by proceeding through a third model. For example, if each supplier has one account, and each account is associated...

Sometimes it can be useful to set your application locale based upon the request IP. You can easily achieve this using Geocoder. Among the many things Geocoder does, it can also tell the location of a request. First, add Geocoder to your Gemfile # Gemfile gem 'geocoder' Geocoder adds location...

We can check the status of migrations by running 3.05.0 rake db:migrate:status 5.0 rails db:migrate:status The output will look like this: Status Migration ID Migration Name -------------------------------------------------- up 20140711185212 Create documentation pages up ...

Rails have very easy way to get first and last record from database. To get the first record from users table we need to type following command: User.first It will generate following sql query: SELECT `users`.* FROM `users` ORDER BY `users`.`id` ASC LIMIT 1 And will return following recor...

In order to compile and run SystemVerilog code a tool called a simulator is needed. Most commonly, commercial tools from one of the Big Three EDA companies is used: Cadence Incisive Mentor Graphics QuestaSim Synopsys VCS Other EDA vendors also provide simulators: Aldec Riviera-PRO Xilinx...

An easy way to clone an object is by implementing a copy constructor. public class Sheep { private String name; private int weight; public Sheep(String name, int weight) { this.name = name; this.weight = weight; } // copy constructor // copies...

Cloning an object by implementing the Cloneable interface. public class Sheep implements Cloneable { private String name; private int weight; public Sheep(String name, int weight) { this.name = name; this.weight = weight; } @Override public Ob...

Start using File Uploads in Rails is quite simple, first thing you have to do is to choice plugin for managing uploads. The most common onces are Carrierwave and Paperclip. Both are similar in functionality and rich in documentation on Let's have an look on example with simple avatar upload image w...

Rails.cache, provided by ActiveSupport, can be used to cache any serializable Ruby object across requests. To fetch a value from the cache for a given key, use cache.read: Rails.cache.read('city') # => nil Use cache.write to write a value to the cache: Rails.cache.write('city', 'Duckburgh'...

Imagine the following situation: foo :: Show a => (a -> String) -> String -> Int -> IO () foo show' string int = do putStrLn (show' string) putStrLn (show' int) Here, we want to pass in a function that converts a value into a String, apply that function to both a string p...

To generate a new mailer, enter the following command rails generate mailer PostMailer This will generate a blank template file in app/mailers/post_mailer.rb named PostMailer class PostMailer < ApplicationMailer end Two layout files will also be generated for the email view, one for the...

added in GHC 7.8. OverloadedLists, similar to OverloadedStrings, allows list literals to be desugared as follows: [] -- fromListN 0 [] [x] -- fromListN 1 (x : []) [x .. ] -- fromList (enumFrom x) This comes handy when dealing with types such as Set, Vector and Maps. ['0'...

“Fat Model, Skinny Controller” refers to how the M and C parts of MVC ideally work together. Namely, any non-response-related logic should go in the model, ideally in a nice, testable method. Meanwhile, the “skinny” controller is simply a nice interface between the view and model. In practice, this...

GCD will guarantee that your singleton only gets instantiated once, even if called from multiple threads. Insert this into any class for a singleton instance called shared. + (instancetype)shared { // Variable that will point to the singleton instance. The `static` // modifier makes it ...

To differentiate between plural and singular strings, you can define a plural in your strings.xml file and list the different quantities, as shown in the example below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <resources> <plurals name="hello_people&quo...

Given a file file.txt with the following content: line 1 line 2 line 3 You can add a new line after first matching line with the a command. For portable use the a command must be followed immediately by an escaped newline, with the text-to-append on its own line or lines. sed ' /line 2/a\ ...