Views are normally (for good reason) not rendered in controller specs. If you need it to happen, use:
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A short tutorial for XPath. It's the first XPath introduction that ever stuck with me. Also see XPath in...
Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\
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I have no idea how it's supposed to work (or why the don't have a print CSS), but...
This note summarizes the ruby exception hierarchy. Exception NoMemoryError ScriptError LoadError NotImplementedError SyntaxError SignalException Interrupt Timeout::Error # < ruby 1.9.2 StandardError...
Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer will repeat elements with position: fixed on every printed page (see attached example).
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To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post...
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A pull quote is a typographical technique in which an excerpt or quote from an article is duplicated within the...
When you print out a HTML pages, all raster images (like PNGs) will appear aliased. This is because a printer...
When selecting records in a date range, take care not to do it like this: start_date = Date.parse('2007-05...
ExpandAnimations is a LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Impress extension to expand presentation animations before exporting to PDF. This way the exported PDF will...
If you are using Mobiscroll for date pickers on touch devices, here is how to localize the Mobiscroll UI into...
jQuery UI's date picker and date time picker doesn't work on touch interfaces. Solution 1: Use Mobiscroll