Add utility functions to iex
How to create short functions that can be called directly in your Elixir iex session
Why code_change wouldn’t work on my GenServer
In Elixir code_change/3 is the callback that allows you to upgrade state in a GenServer process during a hot-code upgrade—but it didn’t work for me. Understanding how the erlang release handler finds processes to update helped me to figure out what was wrong and how to fix it.
Pause tests in Ember
Every now and then you want to pause a test so you can investigate the state of the world around it.
ember,
testing,
tip,
programming,
Repo.count in Ecto
Enable Repo.count(query) in Ecto
elixir,
ecto,
tip,
programming,
Benchmarking in Elixir
How to benchmark a function in Elixir using benchfella
Using Dead Man's Snitch with Whenever
A quick tip to make it easier to use Dead Man's Snitch with the whenever gem
programming,
ruby,
rails,
Cleaning up a Ruby hash
Hash#clean, a monkey patch to provide easy, Array#map like access to hash values to update them inline.
Skipping blank lines in ruby CSV parsing
How to ignore blank lines when parsing a csv file with ruby's CSV parser.
Append items to a sorted collection in Backbone.js
When an item is added to a collection in Backbone.js it should automatically be added to the corresponding list. When using a sorted collection it would be nice to have it appear in place, especially when not refreshing the entire list. That's what I'll explore in this post.
Looping with Fibers
I needed to loop over a fairly large data set and group it by year and month. In this post I walk through using two Ruby Fibers which communicate between each other in order to do in-loop grouping
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