Hi Stefan, Thank you for the encouragement, guidelines and awesome tips. I will try the suggested tools on the week-end.
Warm Regards, Bernard On Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:08:00 PM UTC+4, Stefan Haslinger wrote: > > Hi Bernard! > > One more tip here is the DRYML extension ( > https://github.com/ddnexus/dryml-firemarker) for the Firefox Firebug > debugger (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/firebug/): > > It helped me here to get in the right track of thinking, because I was not > sure, if I was in the name-one hobo-bootstrap-ui case or the name-one > hobo_jquery-ui as I have enabled both. > A short look in the DRYML markers and I knew the full tag hierarchy that > created my HTML (it was hobo-bootstrap-ui ). > Then I saw, that there was no real code change in the hobo-bootstrap-ui > Gem for months and that put my focus back to the server. Getting data at > all does not mean getting the right data... > > A second step, that helped me was getting out for some hours to reset my > brain. > When I saw the issue in the beginning, it was a big kickback. Working on > an app tor meanwhile 9 months and suddenly one important feature is broken, > that causes frustration. > The name-one autocompletion is really an awesome feature of hobo, I really > missed it yesterday. > > I see you calling yourself a "beginner" again. We are always beginners, I > am using active_model_serializers now for about three weeks. That's how > programming is, if you want to improve your > portfolio and your skill set. But I think that is also the interesting > part, to get new stuff to try out every day. > > Before I annoy you, one last tip. I tend to write debugging info these > days in an extra logfile using a small class I created: > > class JobLogger > > def self.info(message) > @joblogger ||= Logger.new("#{Rails.root}/log/#{Rails.env}_jobs.log") > @joblogger.ap(message, :info) unless message.nil? > end > > > > # similar methods for warn, error, fatal, debug > > end > > > so using statements like > JobLogger.debug("This is my debug message") > writes a nice message with timestamp and process id to the log. > > Now the awesome part: There is this gem awesome-print that can format > objects nicely and color them. Putting it in the gemfile and bundling > provides the ap method I already used above. > e.g. JobLogger.debug(User.first.address.first) gives not only output, it > is nicely formatted and colored! (this is my company's public address, no > worries) > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-ZJlsIgIp20g/U9owv8YaI4I/AAAAAAAAAUk/DTo8OwKnvV8/s1600/address.png> > > I know about awesome_print for three days, so "absolute beginner" here. > > Ciao, > Stefan > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
