Tutorial by Examples: le

Replacing strings in a file in-place

sed -i s/"what to replace"/"with what to replace"/g $file We use -i to select in-place editing on the $file file. In some systems it is required to add suffix after -i flag which will be used to create backup of original file. You can add empty string like -i '' to omit the b...

sed • In-Place Editing

Destructuring remaining elements into a sequence

Let's say you have a vector like so: (def my-vec [1 2 3 4 5 6]) And you want to extract the first 3 elements and get the remaining elements as a sequence. This can be done as follows: (let [[x y z & remaining] my-vec] (println "first:" x ", second:" y "third:&quot...

clojure • Clojure destructuring

Iterating over a directory and filter by file extension

public void iterateAndFilter() throws IOException { Path dir = Paths.get("C:/foo/bar"); PathMatcher imageFileMatcher = FileSystems.getDefault().getPathMatcher( "regex:.*(?i:jpg|jpeg|png|gif|bmp|jpe|jfif)"); try (Direc...

Java Language • File I/O

Basic example of using requests and lxml to scrape some data

# For Python 2 compatibility. from __future__ import print_function import lxml.html import requests def main(): r = requests.get("https://httpbin.org") html_source = r.text root_element = lxml.html.fromstring(html_source) # Note root_element.xpath() gives a *...

Python Language • Web scraping with Python

Converting a number to a boolean

Boolean(0) === false Boolean(0) will convert the number 0 into a boolean false. A shorter, but less clear, form: !!0 === false

JavaScript • Variable coercion/conversion

Converting a string to a boolean

To convert a string to boolean use Boolean(myString) or the shorter but less clear form !!myString All strings except the empty string (of length zero) are evaluated to true as booleans. Boolean('') === false // is true Boolean("") === false // is true Boolean('0') === fals...

JavaScript • Variable coercion/conversion

Changing Tables

If you have created a table with some wrong schema, then the easiest way to change the columns and their properties is change_table. Review the following example: change_table :orders do |t| t.remove :ordered_at # removes column ordered_at t.string :skew_number # adds a new column t.index...

Ruby on Rails • ActiveRecord Migrations

Iterating over Collections

Iterating over List List<String> names = new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("Clementine", "Duran", "Mike")); Java SE 8 names.forEach(System.out::println); If we need parallelism use names.parallelStream().forEach(System.out::println); Java SE 5 fo...

Java Language • Collections

Controllers (Basic)

class UsersController < ApplicationController def index respond_to do |format| format.html { render html: "Hello World" } end end end This is a basic controller, with the addition of the following route (in routes.rb): resources :users, only: [:index] Will...

Ruby on Rails • ActionController

Filenames and autoloading

Rails files - and Ruby files in general - should be named with lower_snake_case filenames. E.g. app/controllers/application_controller.rb is the file that contains the ApplicationController class definition. Note that while PascalCase is used for class and module names, the files in which they r...

Ruby on Rails • Naming Conventions

Multiple type parameters

Generics types can have more than one type parameters, eg. Result is defined like this: pub enum Result<T, E> { Ok(T), Err(E), }

Rust • Generics

Identify Binary Files

Git is pretty good at identifying binary files, but you can explicitly specify which files are binary. Create a .gitattributes file in the project root containing: *.png binary binary is a built-in macro attribute equivalent to -diff -merge -text.

Git • Using a .gitattributes file

File Scope

#include <stdio.h> /* The identifier, foo, is declared outside all blocks. It can be used anywhere after the declaration until the end of the translation unit. */ static int foo; void test_function(void) { foo += 2; } int main(void) { foo = 1; test_functi...

C Language • Identifier Scope

Initial Usage Example

jquery-ui-rotatable is a plugin for jQuery UI that works in a similar way to Draggable and Resizable, without being as full-featured. By default, it puts a small rotation icon in the bottom left of whatever element you want to make rotatable. <html> <head> <title>My Ro...

jQuery UI Library • jQuery UI Rotatable Plug-in

Complex Example - jQuery UI Dynamicly Create Dialog

Generally, dialog relies on a div within the HTML. Sometimes you may want to create a dialog from scratch, programmatically. Here is an example of a complex modal dialog created dynamically with interactive functions. HTML <div id="users-contain" class="ui-widget"> &lt...

jQuery UI Library • Dialog

Use requestAnimationFrame to fade in element

View jsFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/HimmatChahal/jb5trg67/ Copy + Pasteable code below: <html> <body> <h1>This will fade in at 60 frames per second (or as close to possible as your hardware allows)</h1> <script> // Fad...

JavaScript • requestAnimationFrame

Devise Controller Filters & Helpers

To set up a controller with user authentication using devise, add this before_action: (assuming your devise model is 'User'): before_action :authenticate_user! To verify if a user is signed in, use the following helper: user_signed_in? For the current signed-in user, use this helper: current_us...

Ruby on Rails • User Authentication in Rails

Listening to Changes of contenteditable

Events that work with most form elements (e.g., change, keydown, keyup, keypress) do not work with contenteditable. Instead, you can listen to changes of contenteditable contents with the input event. Assuming contenteditableHtmlElement is a JS DOM object that is contenteditable: contenteditableH...

JavaScript • execCommand and contenteditable

Simple lambda expressions

// A simple adder function defined as a lambda expression. // Unlike with regular functions, parameter types often may be omitted because the // compiler can infer their types let adder = |a, b| a + b; // Lambdas can span across multiple lines, like normal functions. let multiplier = |a: i32, ...

Rust • Closures and lambda expressions

Simple closures

Unlike regular functions, lambda expressions can capture their environments. Such lambdas are called closures. // variable definition outside the lambda expression... let lucky_number: usize = 663; // but the our function can access it anyway, thanks to the closures let print_lucky_number = ...

Rust • Closures and lambda expressions