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Enums in ActiveRecord 4.1 and options_for_select
Update: This StackOverflow answer provides a better way to use a drop-down with enums. I could’ve sworn I tried that, but maybe not. I discovered something interesting about the way ActiveRecord 4.1 enums work. If you’re trying to use them with options_for_select, you may need to do some little acrobatics with your enums. Assume your…
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Nesting resource routes with alternate scopes and keys + strong parameters.
DISCLAIMER: This is a contrived example translated from a case where it actually made way more sense to break the familiar nested resource pattern. Also, I haven’t double-checked how Rails’ pluralization rules would affect the naming of any given Species. Say you have a pair of models: class Species # id # latin_name_with_underscores end class…
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Git wrapper for vim: fugitive.vim
Today’s browsing through “plugins that I haven’t made good enough use of” brings me to vim-fugitive: :Gstatus pulls git status output into a vim split window. Pressing – on the line that a file is listed on either adds or removes a file from staging, and :Gcommit commits it. :Gdiff opens a vertical split next…