markbates/coffeebeans
When CoffeeScript was added to Rails 3.1 they forgot one very important part, the ability to use it when responding...
A nicer way to run RSpec and/or Cucumber
geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...
Soft-scroll to an anchor with jQuery
This snippet makes links that refer to an anchor (like "...
...") scroll softly to it.\ In this example we only do...
IE7 not properly redrawing elements with position: relative
If you manipulate the DOM with JavaScript and your page contains nested elements with position: relative, chances are Internet Explorer...
Cucumber steps to travel through time with Timecop
These steps are now part of Spreewald. Here are some useful examples how to use the attached Cucumber Timecop steps...
Rails 3.1: Release candidate
Asset pipeline, HTTP streaming, jQuery as default framework, auto-reversable migrations, identity map for ActiveRecord. Ruby 1.8.x support will...
Matching line feeds with regular expressions works differently in every language
Although regular expression syntax is 99% interchangeable between languages, keep this in mind: By default, the dot character (".") does not...
Playing audio in a browser
If you want to play music or sounds from a browser, your choice is to use either Flash or the...
Apprise - The attractive alert alternative for jQuery
An alert alternative for jQuery that looks good. Apprise is a very simple, fast, attractive, and unobtrusive way to communicate...
Rails jQuery UJS: Now Interactive
We can now plug into every facet of the Rails jQuery UJS adapter, binding to custom events, and even customizing...
Open the on-screen keyboard on an iPhone or iPad with Javascript
There is no way to do it. This behavior is by design. You lose.
Cancelling event propagation
Within an event handler, there are multiple methods to cancel event propagation, each with different semantics. event.preventDefault() Only prevents the...
Making IE 9 happy
If you're using jQuery, you need to update to 1.5.1 to get Internet Explorer 9 to work.
Liquid Canvas
Liquid Canvas is a JavaScript library which allows you to draw inside an HTML canvas element with an easy yet...
PhantomJS: Headless WebKit with JavaScript API
PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector...
Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara to the latest versions available for Rails 2
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
Onload callback for dynamically loaded images
Sometimes you need to dynamically load an image and do something as soon as its loaded (when for example its...
Skip Selenium scenarios in a Cucumber run
Cucumber scenarios that are tagged with @javascript so they run with Selenium are very slow. You might not want to...
CSS3 Pie: Element not properly redrawn
Pie sometimes does not properly redraw elements upon changes. This often happens when the change comes from somewhere further up...
JavaScript Garden
JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives...
Traversing the DOM tree with jQuery
jQuery offers many different methods to move a selection through the DOM tree. These are the most important: $element.find(selector...
Convert Adobe Flash FLA files into HTML5 with Wallaby
"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA...
Check that an element is hidden via CSS with Spreewald
If you have content inside a page that is hidden by CSS, the following will work with Selenium, but not...
Exchange messages between Javascript and Flash
Flash movies (.swf files) can talk with Javascript code embedded in the same HTML page. There are two ways to...