JavaScripts and CSS should be minified for production use.

In Rails 3.1+ the asset pipeline will take care of this. Thus you're best off using an uncompressed version of your Javascript in development. Also load the non-minified versions of libraries. This way debugging will be easier and you will still get all the minification love once deployed.

In Rails 2.3 and 3.0 you should at least embed external JavaScript libraries in minified form, using something like JavaScript compressor.

Nowadays it is fairly easy to intercept and modify mails globally before they are sent. All you have to do is register an interceptor class which responds to .delivering_email(message). This card will show you two common use cases.

Subject prefix:

Usually you want to prefix the subject line of emails with the current environment (except production) so you can differentiate between production mails and mails from other environments. Of course a prefix can be set directly in the mailer, however, it is safer and cleaner to d…

This is a bookmarklet you can add to Chrome or Firefox which will allow you to create a story in Pivotal Tracker from a Zammad ticket. This might come in handy when creating stories for SWAT Teams.

But first you will have to set two variables in the script below:

• pt_project_id: the ID of the Pivotal Tracker Project you want to add stories to. This can be found as part of the URL of the project (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/n/projects/<pt_project_id>)
• pt_token: the Pivotal Tracker token used for authentication. Can be found in y…

When text renders differently in Firefox and Chrome, it may be caused by a font alias that both browsers handle differently.

Situation

A machine running Linux, and a website with the Bootstrap 3 default font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif.

Issue

Anti-aliasing and kerning of text looks bad in Firefox. Worse, it is rendered 1px lower than in Chrome (shifted down).

Reason

Firefox resolves "Helvetica" to an installed ["TeX Gyre Heros", which is its Ghostscript clone](https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/…

Query is still a useful and pragmatic library, but chances are increasingly that you’re not dependent on using it in your projects to accomplish basic tasks like selecting elements, styling them, animating them, and fetching data—things that jQuery was great at. With broad browser support of ES6 (over 96% at the time of writing), now is probably a good time to move away from jQuery.

[Practical and clear reference with the most common jQuery patterns and their equivalent translations in vanilla JS](https://tobiasahlin.com/blog/move-from-jq…

The Ruby standard lib ships with a YAML Parser called Psych. But serializing and deserializing data seems not as obvious as if you are using JSON.

To safely write and read YAML files you should use Psych#dump (String#to_yaml) and Psych.safe_load (YAML.safe_load):

data = {'key' => 'value'}.to_yaml
=> "---\nkey: value\n"
YAML.safe_load(data)
=> {"key"=>"value"}

Unfortunately you might encounter a few pitfalls which are not obvious in the first place. All of them are a side effect that you can not configure Psych#dump to w…

A common pattern in Ruby is to to require all files in a specific diretory, using something like

Dir.glob(Rails.root.join('lib/ext/**/*.rb')).each do |filename|
  require filename
end

However, this causes files to be required in an order determined by the file system. Since load order can be important, this may lead to different behavior on different machines which are hard to debug.

Simply add a .sort:

Dir.glob(Rails.root.join('lib/ext/**/*.rb')).sort.each do |filename|
  require filename
end

Merge requests are regularly rejected for the same few reasons.

We don't want that any more. Please attach the following list (colloquially known as "the TPS report") to future merge requests and check all (relevant) boxes:

```plain
I confirm that the code in this merge request… ————————————————
[ ] has green tests
[ ] has been manually tested in the browser
[ ] has no missing translations in the UI
[ ] has no ugly UI changes (long content breaking out of boxes, elements without margins, etc.)
[ ] works wi…

Capybara provides execute_script and evaluate_script to execute JavaScript code in a Selenium-controlled browser. This however is not a good solution for asynchronous JavaScript.

Enter evaluate_async_script, which allows you to execute some asynchronous code and wait until it finishes. There is a timeout of a couple of seconds, so it will not wait forever.

Use it like this:

```ruby
page.evaluate_async_script(«~JS)
let [done] = arguments
doSomethingAsynchronous().then(() => {
done() // call this to indicate we're done
})
J…

• Added #73: New command geordi chromedriver-update allows you to update your chromedriver to the newest matching version. This will replace our previously used shell script. It works if no chromedriver is installed at all.

There is a practical short list for valid/invalid example email addresses - Thanks to Florian L.! The definition for valid emails (RFC 5322) can be unhandy for some reasons, though.

Since Ruby 2.3, Ruby's URI lib has a built in email regex. Probably that's the best solution to work with:

```
URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP

Chrome gives you the currently selected element in the inspector with $0. If you select a button in the DOM you can set and inspect the event handler with the following two code lines:

$($0).on('click', function() { console.log('Hello') })

jQuery._data($0, "events").click[0].handler
// => "function () { console.log('Hello') }"

This is useful for debugging.