Sometimes huge refactorings or refactoring of core concepts of your application are necessary for being able to meet new requirements...

A comprehensive introduction to sending HTML emails. Intro: HTML email: Two words that, when combined, brings tears to a developer...

In general, you should not put a block element inside an inline element. So don't do this: text

So you're getting an error like this: undefined method `activate_bin_path' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)

So you're getting this failure when running bundle install on an older project: Your Gemfile.lock is corrupt. The following...

Building plain text emails with an .erb template doesn't allow you to indent code like you normally do in...

This card tries to summarize by example the different uses of heredoc. In Ruby << vs. <<- vs. <<~ In Rails strip_heredoc...

This method will remove automatically installed packages that no other packages depend on any more. This, of course...

There is no CSS selector for matching elements that contains a given string ¹. Luckily, Capybara offers the :text option to...

We used zeroclipboard.js in some of our projects but now we switched to clipboard.js because it does not rely on...

Closure_tree lets your ActiveRecord models act as nodes in a tree data structure. This promises a few improvements over...

When a directory has more than a few thousand entries, ls will start taking really long to list its content...

This might be relevant for us since we're often managing customer documents in our apps. I played around with...

If you want to find the commits that touched a specific text in a file, use git log -G 'text...

Using the -U parameter you can change how many lines are shown above and below a changed section.

These are Chrome plugins that proved useful at makandra. Each is the best-in-class. Dimensions Auto-measure distances by...

You know those helper methods that just render some HTML but look weird because of content_tags all over the...

We have a new gem Minidusen which extracts Dusen's query parsing and LIKE query functionality. Minidusen can no longer...

If you were using Dusen for its query parsing and LIKE queries, we recommend to migrate to Minidusen, which extracts...

A new open source WYSIWYG editor that promises superior fidelity and customizability. This might be a future alternative to Redaktor...

Angular directives with isolate scopes have three different variable binding strategies, of which one is =. Example: # HTML # Coffeescript @app.directive 'panel...

This pretty-prints a JSON object, with two spaces of indentation: JSON.stringify(object, null, 2)

When you're nesting setTimeout(f, 0) calls, your browser will silently increase the delay to 5 milliseconds after the...