Nice brief git log format

I'm really happy with this. There's two new features compared to what I've been using up until recently.

Firstly, I just learned about the core.pager option which solves the problems I was solving previously with this ugliness:
ll = "!git --no-pager log --pretty=nice -n30; echo"

Secondly, the %+d. I generally don't use the --graph log formats, (such as these), that show you the branch paths, but seeing where the refs are is super useful. The + makes it appear on the next line without adding a line break when there are no refs.

Here's a screenshot of how it looks (with details obscured to protect the innocent).

Update: I dropped the line break before the refs list, which is fine if you have a nice wide terminal, and tweaked some colours. Now it's:

  nice = format:%Cblue%h %C(cyan)%cr %Cgreen%an%Creset %s%C(yellow)%d %Creset

Some "progress" on my Tau in Ruby patch

Its category was changed from "core" to "joke" :(... How does the quote go? "First they ignore your patch, then they classify it as a joke, then... " I forget the rest ;)

"Once τ is widely accepted in these communities, we might add it..."

But also:

"...if it were just up to me, I'd add it just to show support. It's a rather tiny and harmless addition."

See the ticket here.

Haskell?

It compiles so I guess that means I wrote some Haskell! :)

(See my Pandoc pull request and commit).

Make it easier to use partials with blocks in rails

The shorter version of render :partial is widely known and used. These are equivalent, but the second version is so much more succinct and readable. To use a partial with a yield in it, (what I call a "block partial"), you can use render :layout which a. doesn't read very well, (it's a partial, not a layout clearly), and b. can't be shortened nicely the way that render :partial can. So here is block_render: It lets you have nice neat render calls like this: This is a real-life example of a block partial I like to use. Those classes are bootstrap classes for making a nice drop down menu.

How to make pinned tabs in Firefox a bit wider

I'm using Stylish to apply this, but I guess you could do it with a userChrome.css. The main reason I want this is so the hit target is larger. I want to be able to click my pinned app tabs (currently a TiddlyWiki and my Zimbra corporate calendar) without aiming too hard.

Make ActiveRecord::Base#create respect the :type attribute

I think I've needed and implemented this twice now, so let's make a post about it.

The problem occurs when you are using f.fields_for and nested forms, as per these railscasts, and the nested objects are using STI.

(Will leave a more detailed explanation for future posts).

Update 1: Even though this works as described, I don't think it solves my problem. Will post again if I figure it out...

Update 2: Found this which is I think what I was using last time I had this problem... :S