Flexbox is awesome. Most of it even works in IE11, but flex: 1 won't work reliably in Internet Explorer...
Most forms have a single submit button that will save the record when pressed. Sometimes a form needs additional submit...
In general, the tracker should always be the definitive source of truth of what needs to be done as part...
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads...
Google Chrome has a subtle rendering bug that hits me once in a while. It usually occurs in sliders with...
Having a unique selector for an element is useful to later select it from JavaScript or to update a fragment...
Haml lets you prefix a group of attributes by wrapping them in a hash. This is only possible with the...
As a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one...
Rails defines a #truncate helper as well as a method String#truncate. = truncate("my string", length: 5) = "my string".truncate...
The 90s are calling: they want their tables back. Unfortunately, you need them all for laying out your HTML emails...
Ruby has this handy block shortcut map(&:to_i) for map { |x| x.to_i }. However, it is limited to argument...
Authentication is a special part of web applications. On the one hand, it usually is a crucial security mechanism restrict...
Browsers' printing methods usually don't print background colors. In most cases this is the desired behavior, because you don...
TL;DR Append your locale keys with _html to have them marked as html_safe and translate them with = t...
When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a...
When your JavaScript bundle is so massive that you cannot load it all up front, I would recommend to load...
You know that you can use jQuery's text() to get an element's contents without any tags.
For outputting a given String in HTML, you mostly want to replace line breaks with or tags.
Lets say we have a user with a contract whereas contract is a mounted carrierwave file. Now we want to...
This might be a known issue with Rubygems 2.5.1. This will help: gem update --system
When you need test images, instead of using services like lorempixel or placehold.it you may generate test images yourself.
Boot partitions from installations prior to the 16.04 era are terribly small. When you install updates and encounter errors due...
geordi delete_dumps [directory] Recursively search for files ending in *.dump and offer to delete those. When no...
Rails offers a way to prepend (or append) view paths for the current request. This way, you can make the...