Rails default config uses the ActiveSupport::Cache::NullStore and disables controller caching for all environments except production: config.action_controller.perform_caching = false...

This is useful if, for example, you want to use a background-image that has to scale with the width...

By default Middleman generates files with a .html extension. Because of this all your URLs end in /foo.html instead of...

Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.

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RubyMine provides a visual tool for resolving merge conflicts locally. Follow Git > Resolve Conflicts in the context menu to open...

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The parallel-gem is quite easy to use and can speed up rendering time if you want to render the...

Imagine the following HTML structure, where the scrolling container has overflow-y: scroll: +--scrolling container+-+ | | | +-child element+----+ | | | ++iframe++ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------+ | | | | <-- actually cut...

When filling out forms in Selenium tests, Chrome shows the (usual) bubble, asking to store those credentials. While the bubble...

Some pseudo-elements need to be addressed with vendor prefixes. E.g. ::selection is not supported by Firefox, you need to...

Sometimes you want/have to send specific http(s) requests. You can do that easy with curl or just write the...

ImageMagick has a command line tool called identify which can read image metadata: >identify -verbose DSC00136.JPG Image: DSC00136.JPG Format: JPEG...

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You can start vim with a read-only option. This prevents making accidentally changes in files you don't want...

Note: The behaviour of Spreewald's within step is as described below for version < 1.9.0; For Spreewald >= 1.9.0 it is...

This is not an issue in newer versions of HAML (starting with 5.0.0), as the ugly-option was removed...

There are various ways to run external commands from within Ruby, but the most powerful ones are Open3.capture3 and Open3.popen3...

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Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand...

There seems to be a nasty bug in Chrome 56 when testing with Selenium and Capybara: Slashes are not written...

We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you...

If you use Angular 1.4+ together with Angular Animate, all ng-show, ng-hide, ng-class etc. are animated on...

First find the reference for the entry you want through looking at the stash: $ git stash list stash@{0}: WIP...

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A comprehensive introduction to sending HTML emails. Intro: HTML email: Two words that, when combined, brings tears to a developer...

In general, you should not put a block element inside an inline element. So don't do this: text

Building plain text emails with an .erb template doesn't allow you to indent code like you normally do in...

This card tries to summarize by example the different uses of heredoc. In Ruby << vs. <<- vs. <<~ In Rails strip_heredoc...