turn.js - The page flip effect for HTML5
turn.js is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine for HTML5.
I tested it successfully on Chrome, Firefox and IE9.
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Good real world example for form models / presenters in Rails
We have often felt the pain where our models need to serve too many masters. E.g. we are adding a lot of logic and callbacks for a particular form screen, but then the model becomes a pain in tests, where all those callbacks just get in the way. O...
Remove resource fork files from a FAT volume on MacOS
Be careful!
The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're doing, you can run into big trouble with your computer.
I play mp3 files on my car stereo that are stored on a SD-C...
How to: Upgrade CarrierWave to 3.x
While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic changes you need to perform and some behavior you may eventually run into when upgrading your application. This aims to save you some...
How to not die with ActionView::MissingTemplate when clients request weird formats
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Accept: application/json
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How to build the perfect number of blank records for a nested form
When you render a nested form for a Movie
which has_many :actors
, you want to render the right number of blank Actor
forms. The right number means:
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Actors
to an existingMovie
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Security issues with hash conditions in Rails 2 and Rails 3
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Devise: How to allow only HTTP Basic Auth and disable the HTML sign-in form
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RSpec: how to prevent the Rails debug page if you want to actually test for 404s
Within development and test environments, Rails is usually configured to show a detailed debug page instead of 404s. However, there might be some cases where you expect a 404 and want to test for it.
An example would be request-specs that ch...
Always show the page if there is an error in Cucumber
Are you adding a "Then show me the page
" and re-run Cucumber whenever there is a failing scenario? Don't be that guy!
Save time with the shiny new version of our cucumber_spinner gem. It comes wit...
Some tips for upgrading Bootstrap from 3 to 4
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