alfajango.com

The CSS Emoticons plugin is a simple jQuery plugin (and stylesheet) that allows you to turn any text emoticons on...

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robots.thoughtbot.com

Getting started with Ruby extensions in C.

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If you want to rename a key of a Ruby hash, this could help you out. Just put it into...

images.google.com

In july Google announced a new version of their image serach tool Google Images. But you won't find it...

github.com

delocalize provides localized date/time and number parsing functionality for Rails.

Attached are two (32 and 64 bit) .deb packages from 2011-08-12, kindly built by Kim...

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You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...

Be careful! The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're...

When you load a record with find options that have SQL fragments in :select or :joins, ActiveRecord will make that...

paulirish.com

Cached fonts WILL caused an unstyled flash of text.

emphaticsolutions.com

In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used...

github.com

This gem is designed to provide CSS views to Rails, and a process to concatenate and minify these files to...

thirdroute.com

Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis (@brianreavis) to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on...

yehudakatz.com

This post explains, in some detail, how we will implement a nice performance boost for Rails developers. Understanding the details...

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keith-wood.name

A jQuery plugin that sets a div or span to show a countdown to a given time

wmd-editor.com

WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD...

Expiration of Rails sessions By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window. To change this edit...

Embedded Flash movies do not always obey element order and z-index. To fix this, set the wmode attribute to...

When submitting textareas, browsers sometimes include carriage returns (\r) instead of just line feeds (\n) at the end of each...

If you iterate over a collection of arrays, you can destructure the arrays within the block parameters: movies_and_directors...

When a spec only runs when it is called directly, but not as part of the whole test suite, make...

Since RubyMine 3.1 you can drag tabs across panes/windows and out of the main window to create new windows.