ToS;DR aims at creating a transparent and peer-reviewed process to rate and analyse Terms of Service and Privacy Policies in order to create a rating from Class A to Class E.

Its really surprising how many terms of service agreements give you “no right to leave the service”.

We’ve been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta but have been unable to come up with solution that was acceptable to them.

I’m guessing that was a short mostly one-sided conversation.

quiet assets is a gem that cuts down on asset pipeline log spam. I used to do this with an initializer but this is much easier.

With quiet assets:

gem 'quiet_assets', :group => :development

Then:

bundle

Quiet assets also lets you turn asset pipeline log suppression off with config.quiet_assets

The old way:

if Rails.env.development?
  Rails.application.assets.logger = Logger.new('/dev/null')
  Rails::Rack::Logger.class_eval do
    def call_with_quiet_assets(env)
      previous_level = Rails.logger.level
      Rails.logger.level = Logger::ERROR if env['PATH_INFO'] =~ %r{^/assets/}
      call_without_quiet_assets(env)
    ensure
      Rails.logger.level = previous_level
    end
    alias_method_chain :call, :quiet_assets
  end
end

Normalize.css is a customisable [sic] CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. We researched the differences between default browser styles in order to precisely target only the styles that need normalizing.

Since it is used in Twitter Bootstrap, I’ve been using normalize inadvertently for months. But recently, I have started to use normalize in projects where I’m not using Bootstrap instead of a plain old CSS reset. I think it saves time and lets you take advantage of some useful defaults. You can check out the code on github or look at the demo.

Compare it to a typical CSS reset and its clear how much easier it could be to start with normalize.

Mike Ehrmantraut
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