Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this...

Ruby gem that provides an AR-style interface for the Pivotal Tracker API.

You don't need a Rails application to use Sass. Even when you're working on a static site you...

Because they are vector, it would make sense if we could do things that other vector programs (e.g. Adobe Illustrator...

When Paperclip attachments should only be downloadable for selected users, there are three ways to go. The same applies to...

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

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

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

When you create e.g. a sidebar box that contains headlines and paragraphs, the final paragraph's margin in that box...

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

The following Sass will do it: hr color: #ddd background-color: #ddd border: none height: 1px

When a paperclip attachment gains a new style and you have many attachments, reprocessing can take ages. This is because...

To parse XML-documents, I recommend the gem nokogiri. A few hints: xml = Nokogiri::XML(" foo bar ") parses an xml...

tmp/* storage/* db/*.sqlite3 db/schema.rb db/structure.sql public/system .project .idea/ public/javascripts/all* public/stylesheets/all* public/stylesheets/*.css config/database.yml *~ *#* .#* .DS_Store webrat-*.html

Web performance expert Nicole Sullivan discusses a set of best practices in the creation of supremely fast, visually impactful web...

Maybe I haven’t been paying close enough attention, but over the past few years an interesting variation of CSS...

I am a huge fan of SASS (Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets) for styling Rails applications. I have been using it on...

JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary whitespace from JavaScript files. It typically reduces filesize by half, resulting...

PNG transparency for IE 6.