I'm looking to remove redundant directories from my output URLs. This seems like it would be straightforward, but I can't seem to figure it out. Specifically:
This: .com/tmj/recipes/cocktails/rye/toronto.html
Should be more like this: .com/cocktails/rye/toronto.html
I've got a bit of a funny set up using a git submodule that requires the actual src documents to be organized a special way. Anyone know how I can get around this?
I was able to get the URLs I wanted by reworking the src config. This was a bit counter-intuitive to me, but now that I see it working it makes sense. Essentially I told DocPad to ignore the extra directories, and generate the site with out them. Here is the code I used, to be placed in the docpad config (docpad.coffee.)
documentsPaths: [ # default
'documents/the-mason-jar/recipes', 'pages'
]
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I often put the following lines at the beginning of my Maxima files
load("operatingsystem")$
chdir("/Users/tilda/Documents/progs/maxima/spm/")$
to make sure that output created by other programs from within Maxima is written into the current working directory as indicated above.
It does its job, yet this method is rather inflexible as the user's home directory, i.e.
/Users/tilda
is hardcoded into the program. So, when I exchange these files, users have to manually edit and adjust the code to their $HOME. To fix this I changed the code to various forms of
load("operatingsystem")$
chdir("$HOME/Documents/progs/maxima/spm/")$
just to get (Lisp) error messages. After consulting the manual and some trial and error I came up with this:
(%i1) load("operatingsystem")$
getenv("HOME")$
chdir(%)$
chdir("Documents/progs/maxima/spm/")$
getcurrentdirectory();
which works fine. For other users, i.e. matthias, the current directory now indeed is in their path.
(%o5) /Users/matthias/Documents/progs/maxima/spm/
However, I wonder if there is a more elegant and shorter way to achieve this.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Cheers
Tilda
I am developing a Clojure/ClojureScript SPA based on http-kit, compojure and tiny bits of hiccup on backend and mainly reagent on frontend. Project is done with leiningen, based on hand-wrecked chestnut template.
When I tried to make more complex URLs than just "/" the following setup created a mess for me:
When producing the initial hiccup to serve HTML and adding includes for CSS and JS files I followed the examples and added them as relative urls like
(include-css "css/style.css")
;and
(include-js "js/compiled/out/goog/base.js")
(include-js "js/compiled/myproject.js")
(note absence of slash in the beginning)
In the chestnut template I got default :asset-path option for cljsbuild set to "js/compiled/out"
Of course, when I tried to add a route to the same page with the http://my-domain/something URL in addition to root http://my-domain/ and load it, the thing failed to get any of my assets (trying to fetch them under e.g. /something/js/compiled/myproject.js).
I was able to fix this issue for explicitly included assets by making those urls relative to root (prepending a slash to each of them). It left me with the same problem with the script tag with src="js/compiled/out/cljs_deps.js" injected by cljsbuild, but this one I fixed by making :asset-path relative to root as well.
It all seems to work properly now, but the fact that I had to make some head-scratching and a surprisingly large amount of googling to finally resolve this makes me feel this is not the default approach. Hence the questions:
Did I do the right thing by converting all asset urls to relative-to-root ones? (Keeping in mind that I'm working on an SPA)
If yes, why isn't this a default approach and why I keep seeing relative-to-current location URLs everywhere (including all the examples on the web as well as lein templates)?
Update:
The relevant part of my app's compojure routes looks like this:
(defroutes home-routes
(resources "/")
(GET "/" _
(friend/authenticated
(html-response
(app-page))))
(GET "/something*" _
(friend/authenticated
(html-response
(app-page)))))
I think (correct me if I am wrong) that it is better to put a / at the end of most of url. Like this: http://www.myweb/file/
And not put / at the end of filenames: http://www.myweb/name.html
I have to correct that in a website with a lot of links. Is there a way I can do that in a fast way. For instance in some programs like Dreamweaver I can use find and replace.
The second case is quite easy with Dreamweaver:
- Find: .html/"
- Replace: .html"
But how can I say something like:
- Find: all the links that end with a directory. Like http://www.myweb/file
- Replace: the same link but with a / at the end. Like http://www.myweb/file/
Your approach may work but it is based on the assumption that all files have a file extension.
There is a distinct difference between the urls http://www.myweb/file and http://www.myweb/file/ because the latter could resolve to http://www.myweb/file/index.php, or any other in the default set configured in your web server. That URL could also reference a perfectly valid file which doesn't contain a file extension, such as if it were a REST endpoint.
So you are correct insofar as you should explicitly add a "/" if you are referring to a directory, for example if you are expecting the web server to look up the correct index page to respond, or doing a directory listing.
To replace the incorrect URLS, regular expressions are your friend.
To find all files which have an erroneous "/" you could use /\.(html|php|jpg|png)\//, adding as many different file extensions into that pipe-separated list as you like. You can then replace that with .$1 or .\1 depending on your tool.
An example of doing this with Perl would be:
perl -pi -e 's/\.(html|php|jpg|png)\//.\1/g' theFileYouWantToCheck.html
Of (if you're using a Linux-based system) you can automate that nicely with find:
find path/to/html/root -type f -name "*.html* | xargs perl -pi -e 's/\.(html|php|jpg|png)\//.\1/g'
which will find all html files in the directory and do an inline find and replace. Assuming you're using version control, it's then easy to see the changes it's applied :)
Update
Solving the problem for adding a slash to directories isn't trivial. The approach I'd take:
Write a script to recurse through your website structure locally, making a list of all files
Parse the HTML files to extract all href=".*" and replace them with href=".*/" only if the end of the URL isn't present in the list extracted by the first script.
Any text-based find and replace is not going to be aware of whether the link is actually to a file or not.
I'm using:
Rails 3.2x
Spree 1.2
Ruby 1.9.3x
I'm trying to edit the title of one of my pages, and I cannot find where it is getting defined. It is showing up in my base ERB file as 'title', but that name is sufficiently generic to make it next to impossible to find where it is defined.
I have prodded everywhere I can think, I've tried searching for "title =", but nothing is working. I tried calling source_location on it, but that appears to only work on methods.
Any tricks for finding where a variable is defined?
I can't think of an elegant way. A dumb-but-probably-effective way would be to dump stack trace in your erb, then see what those locations are doing and if title is defined there. It has to enter somewhere between the start of program and invoking your erb.
When I can't find something, I use grep -ri some_string . at the command-line to recursively search all the content of the directory.
It's also a good tactic to let your editor search all the source code, since the ones worth using have the ability to search through all files in a directory.
it is created from a mixture of product names, a site config, and something else
An alternate trick is to add a HTML-comment section in your ERB file, and put the pertinent information for the components used to create the title into that section. Then, let the pages be generated and look inside the page's content to determine what table and row ID it is, the site_config filename, etc.
You really should be able to figure it out based on the parts that are concatenated to build the title and then search your database or files. That information isn't magically created out of thin air by Rails; Someone had to tell Rails how to define the title. But, people move on, or they don't document correctly, so try the embedded information trick.
I've been learning Ruby/Rails with vim. Tim Pope's rails.vim seems like a really good tool to traverse files with, but I keep getting these pesky "E345 can't find file in path" errors. I'm not vim expert yet, so the solution isn't obvious. Additionally, I've tried this and it doesn't apply to my problem.
As an example of the problem. I have a method format_name defined in app/helpers/application_helper.rb and it is used in app/helpers/messages_helper.rb. Within the latter file I put my cursor over the usage of format_name and then hit gf and I get that error. Similar disfunction with commands like ]f and [f
However, it works sometimes. I was able to gf from user to the app/models/user.rb
Ideas?
I think that is a limitation of rails.vim. It does not support “finding” bare methods. Supporting something like that would require one of the following:
an exhaustive search of all the source files for each “find” request
(which could be expensive with large projects),
“dumb” indexing of method names
(e.g. Exuberant Ctags and gControl-]; see :help g_CTRL-]), or
smart enough parsing of the code to make a good guess where the method might be defined
(which is hard to do properly).
If you know where the method is, you can extend many of the navigation commands with a method name:
:Rhelper application#format_name
But, you do not have to type all of that in. Assuming the cursor is on format_name you can probably just type:RhTabspaceappTab#Control-R Control-W (see :help c_CTRL-R_CTRL-W).