Getting started with Git Log

A very handy alias for viewing git logs on the command line.

You can do this fairly easily without git rebase or git merge --squash. In this example, we'll squash the last 3 commits.

If you want to write the new commit message from scratch, this suffices:

git reset --soft HEAD~3 && git commit

If ...

When refactoring it is sometimes useful to see when a method or constant was introduced or removed.

git log -G'method_name'
git log -G'ConstantName'

If you see that a method is no longer used then you are safe to remove it. You can also ...

If you get errors in CI like Poltergeist detected another element with CSS selector but you're not getting them in development/testing then it could be to do with the fact that you have a responsive layout and when the screen is collapsed the el...

• Separate subject from body with a blank line
• Limit the subject line to 50 characters
• Capitalize the subject line
• Do not end the subject line with a period
• Use the imperative mood in the subject line
• Wrap the body at 72 characters
• Use...

FactoryGirl.attributes_for doesn't honour associations defined in the factory so if you're submitting a user and you're sending along associated ids to create the associations it doesn't create the _id attribute.

Here's a simple solution that c...

A good article which explains how to add sprockets to Rails 2.3 to provide asset pipeline functionality.

I couldn't get the helper overrides to work as specified so simply directly referenced the absolute path to the assets, e.g. `/assets/applica...

A guide for setting up SNI so that a single IP address can be used to have multiple SSL certificates serving the same or multiple sites.