cheatsheets/rails-tricks.md

title	category	layout	tags	archived
Rails tricks	Rails	2017/sheet	Archived	This sheet may describe practices that might be outdated.

Sass source maps

in config/environments/development.rb:

# Source maps for Sass
config.sass.debug_info = true
config.sass.line_comments = false

# Don't break apart
config.assets.debug = false

Partial locals

<%= render 'article', full: true %>
<%= render 'article' %>

<% if local_assigns[:full] %>
  ...
<% end %>

HTML in i18n

en:
  read_more_html: "read <b>more</b>..."

Exception handling

# config/application.rb
config.exceptions_app = self.routes

get '/404', to: 'errors#not_found'
get '/500', to: 'errors#server_error'

class ErrorsController
  def not_found
    render status: :not_found
  end
 end

Rails updating

rake rails:update

Distinct pluck

Article.distinct.pluck('author')

Relation#merge

scope :with_drafts, -> {
  uniq.joins(:articles).merge(Article.draft)
}

Order

scope :recent, -> { order created_at: :desc }

Group by month

.group("to_char(created_at, 'YYYY-MM')")
.group("to_char(created_at, 'YYYY-MM')").count