Ruby 1.9.2 is very slow when loading files, especially starting Rails servers or running specs takes forever.
Take care when using rescue_from to rescue multiple errors. The following will not work, because later rescue_from statements...
In a nutshell: Capybara's find will not work properly on nodes from a list. Don't find on elements...
CSS is a lot easier to write and read than clumsy XPath expressions. So when you need to use XPath...
LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...
Note that this seems to affect only recent Rails 2 versions. You will not encounter this until you are writing...
The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, laws, design patterns, and other principles, practices, and...
Upgade to LibreOffice 3.5.3+ or disable hardware accelleration in Tools → Options → LibreOffice → View → Graphic output.
Always use simply require 'spec_helper' If you mix it up like require 'spec_helper' require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
Recent rails security updates have shown that people make incorrect assumptions about the possible contents of the params hash.
This sounds promising: The best part from the Rails side, is that you don’t have to change anything at...
To have your text input field pre-filled in with some text that disappears as soon as the user selects...
New way to install an actual puppet version on ubuntu
ActiveSupport >= 3 has Date.parse('2011-02-10').beginning_of_quarter #=> 2011-01-01 Date.parse('2011-02-10').end_of_quarter...
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Generated animations are free to use without backlink obligations... ... WITH THE EXCEPTION of any other animated images generator applications
If you're suffering from a huge de.yml or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your...
If you upgrade to the mysql2 gem, you will run into the problem that the server's database.yml (which is...
Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...
Why string sorting sucks in vanilla Ruby Ruby's sort method doesn't work as expected with special characters (like...
Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...
Introspect the Ruby Heap by indexing, counting, locating references to and detaching (in order to release) objects.
In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per...
The amount helper now retrieves the decimal separator from your I18n dictionary (number.format.separator) instead of hardcoding it to a comma...