Code snippets

You will find here 6 code snippets I find useful so I don't have to Google ™ or Stackoverflow ™ them when I need. There are also code snippets I always forget! 😁 Sometimes, related links to the code will be available. The main difference with other random snippets you will find on the web is that in most cases (for the Symfony related ones) you will be able to run them directly from this website to check the output so you can verify it works as expected ™.

This snippet shows how to get the absolute physical path of the current Makefile. The documentation is available by clicking the "...

Makefile

Published on 2024-06-08 • Modified on 2024-06-08

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This snippet shows how to update Castor when is it already installed on a Mac with a "M" processor (arm64). ...

castor

Published on 2024-04-20 • Modified on 2024-04-20

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This snippet shows how to execute a given Make target inside a target. When you want to run a target before another, you can put a...

make

Published on 2023-03-15 • Modified on 2023-03-15

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In this snippet, we will see how to test if a Docker container is healthy in a Makefile. The goal is to use this check before runn...

Docker

Published on 2021-02-27 • Modified on 2021-02-27

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In this snippet, we will see how to pass parameters to a Makefile rule. You can do so by adding parameter=value to the make call, ...

Makefile

Published on 2020-12-09 • Modified on 2020-12-09

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I have always used shell (.sh) scripts to streamline all my dev tasks on Symfony projects. But I discovered (here and here) that w...

Symfony

Published on 2018-11-30 • Modified on 2021-10-10

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