tl;dr: Use event.currentTarget unless you are absolutely certain that you need event.target. Since it hasn't been written down...
Your after_commit callbacks will not know about changes, as Rails discards them when committing. The linked article shows a...
This blew my mind today: 12 Little-Known CSS Facts 12 Little-Known CSS Facts (The Sequel) Please make sure...
Sometimes you need to run background jobs that you can't make important guarantees about - they may run out of...
Large projects usually have large test suites that can run for a long time. This can be annoying as running...
In most of our applications, users have their first and last name stored in separate columns. However, specifying them separately...
Disabling auto-complete in login forms is probably a bad idea, since it encourages weak passwords. If you are still...
In my RubyMine I have recorded two macros for debugging and linked them to some keyboard shortcuts. Since I believe...
When working with ActiveType you will often find it useful to cast an ActiveRecord instance to its extended ActiveType::Record...
Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.
There is no such thing as a "default order" of rows in database tables. For instance, when you paginate a...
HTTP/2 will make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust—a rare combination—by allowing us to undo many of...
ActiveModel supplies an errors object that behaves similar to a Hash. It can be used to add errors to a...
All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and...
sslscan is a nice tool to show details about TLS/SSL connections: ~> sslscan some-host-at.makandra.de Testing SSL server some-host-at.makandra.de on port 443...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
FactoryBot.define do factory :parent do transient do child_name nil child_allowed_to_drive false end child do association(:child...
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your...
Datetime picker that offers: simple UI without a specific framework several of customization options allows custom date/time validations Localization happens...
Jasmine has a jasmine.clock() helper that you can use to travel through time and trigger setTimeout and setInterval callbacks:
Re-creating a complex ActiveRecord scenario quickly without setting up a full-blown Rails app can come in handy e.g...
When you want to UPDATE a table with information from an associated table, you can JOIN the associated table into...
Several Rails migration methods accept index: true as an option to create an index. In some cases (like #add_column...
TL;DR Under certain circumstances, dynamically defined symbols may break keyword arguments in Ruby 2.2. This was fixed in Ruby...