The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

The way Rational#to_s works on Ruby has changed from Ruby 1.9 on. Here is how to get the old behavior back.

You may want this for things where Rationals are being used, like when subtracting Date objects from one another.

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Scroll and touch event listeners tend to be computationally expensive as they are triggered very often. Every time the event is fired, the browser needs to wait for the event to be processed before continuing - the event could prevent the default ...

While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals, it actually involves a lot of rules and caveats. It is very easy to create invoices where numbers don't add up and a few cents are missing....

tig path_to_file_or_files_or_path_with_wildcard

When you have a localized website, you may want to redirect users to their preferred language when they visit the root path.
Here is how to do it without a server-side component (like a Rails application).

• Use JavaScript's navigator.language ...

ActiveRecord comes with a method touch which sets the updated_at timestamp to the current time. Unfortunately it also runs callbacks (and hence validations) on the receiving record, so i...

Expiration of Rails sessions

By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window.

To change this edit your config/initializers/session_store.rb like this:

ActionController::Base.session = ...