Below is a list of some VIM settings I find useful. You can add them to your .vimrc.

source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim                 " adds Ctrl-X, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V; block visual mode is now Ctrl-Q
behave mswin

set autowriteall            ...

Use the htmlentities gem.

Encoding works like this:

require 'htmlentities'
coder = HTMLEntities.new
string = "<élan>"
coder.encode(string)               # => "&lt;élan&gt;"
coder.encode(s...

When you have a string containing umlauts which don't behave as expected (are not matched with a regexp, can't be found with an SQL query, do not print correctly on LaTeX documents, etc), you may be encountering umlauts which are not actually umla...

Using ActiveSupport

ActiveSupport comes with a #transliterate method which replaces characters with their low-ASCII equivalent (to strip accents etc.:):

ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate('aäoöuü') # => "aaoouu"

...

The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column:

User.find_by_anything('carla')
User.find_by_anything('email@domain.de')
User.find_by_anything(10023)

There's also a bang variant that raises `ActiveRecord...

• You might have notices this behavior when you cut a selection or use the rubber tool.
• The behavior depends on whether your images has an alpha channel.
• You can add an alpha channel by choosing Layer → Transparency → Add alpha channel

This collection contains some useful design resources for developers. Many of them were mentioned in the Refactoring UI tutorials.

Tutorials

• Refactoring UI Videos
• [Refactori...