Jasmine specs that work with DOM elements often leave elements in the DOM after they're done. This will leak...

tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Layouts tab you have handy options to debug CSS Flexbox and Grid. Including...

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While in CSS zero is usually referenced without specifying a unit (e.g. padding: 0), you must not use a unitless...

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If you're frequently switching between projects, you might be annoyed by RubyMines behavior of opening the last project on...

This can happen with a very simple model: class Note has_many :attachments end Everything looks normal: Note.all.to_a.size # => 8 Note.all.ids.size...

Large Rails projects tend to define multiple custom ways to format Dates or DateTimes. This often leads to duplicated format...

When writing a Sass function, you may run into an error message that may be confusing: @function rules may not...

tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Sources tab you can activate Event Listener Breakpoints for debugging events. Example

tl;dr In Chrome DevTools in the Elements tab or in Firefox in the Inspector tab you can right click...

If you're experiencing that your bundle install command fails with an error message like this, rubygems.org might...

Unpoly's [up-observe], [up-autosubmit] and [up-validate] as well as their programmatic variants up.observe() and up.autosubmit...

tl;dr Since Rails 7+ you can use ComparisonValidator for validations like greater_than, less_than, etc. on dates, numerics...

Ncdu is a disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface. It is designed to find space hogs on a remote...

You can use ETags to allow clients to use cached responses, if your application would send the same contents as...

Here are a few common patterns that will probably lead to flaky specs. If you notice them in your specs...

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tl;dr git checkout is the swiss army of git commands. If you prefer a semantically more meaningful command for...

New versions of wkhtmltopdf dissallow file:// URLs by default. You can allow them by passing --enable-local-file-access.

You have uncommited changes (you can always check by using git status), which you want to discard.

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The robots.txt file and HTML tag can be used to control the behavior of search engine crawlers. Both have different...

Ruby's standard library includes a class for creating temporary directories. Similar to Tempfile it creates a unique directory name...

If you want to see the git history of a project file, that doesn't exist anymore, the normal git...

To allow HTTP 304 responses, Rails offers the fresh_when method for controllers. The most common way is to pass...

A memory leak is an unintentional, uncontrolled, and unending increase in memory usage. No matter how small, eventually, a leak...

For Rails models where only one of multiple attributes may be filled out at the same time, there is no...