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You may omit the /path/to/link_name to have a link with the same filename appear in the current directory

When deploying Rails applications you might have noticed that JS and CSS are not cached by all browsers.

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With this plugin, you can create a scalable tooltip by just using a single background image for the tooltip body...

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Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework. Please note: "Permission to...

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The point is, evented I/O is not magic scalability pixie dust, and like anything, there is a tradeoff.

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A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use...

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Boolean attributes can now be set by appending "which", "that" or "who" at the end: Given there is a movie...

When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...

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This will eventually be integrated into jQuery UI with the multiple: true option, but right now this is the way...

Spreewald has steps that let you test that e-mails have been sent, using arbitrary conditions in any combination.

Don't use should validate_format_of(...) because that matcher works in weird ways. Use the allow_value matcher instead...

Use this if you want to show or hide part of a form if certain options are selected or boxes...

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Keyboard layout reverting to US on (every) reboot Cause: I found the same problem, but only on my wife...

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the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love

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You can write regular expressions some different ways, e.g. /regex/ and %r{regex}. For examples, look here. Remember that it...

popthis is awesome when used with inaction_mailer. Setup inaction_mailer Install the gem: sudo gem install popthis

The Git stash does not work like a one-slot clipboard and you might shoot yourself in the foot if...

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To pause and send a task to the background ctrl+z to reactivate the task fg to run task in...

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The following example is from the Cucumber wiki: Given a blog post named "Random" with Markdown body """ Some Title, Eh...

Use the attached initializer to do stuff like this str = "abc" str.imbue(:foo => 'foo value', :bar => 'bar value')

So you screwed up and copied Paperclip secrets from one project to another. Here is a semi-automatic, painful way...

Capybara does not play nice with sites that have some actions protected by SSL, some not. A popular way to...

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Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...

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The following counts all the lines in all *.rb files in the app directory. Run several of these commands to...