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

Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...

Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages...

You want Spring for super-fast binstubs like bin/rails or bin/rspec which avoid Rails boot time. You want parallel_tests...

Sometimes you might need to nest a git-project inside another git-project. The right strategy is to use submodules...

Promises are the new way™ to express "Do this, and once you're done, do that". In contrast to callbacks...

On OSX (real or inside Browserstack), you need different keystrokes for your favorite special characters than you'd use on...

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

Piwik is the leading open-source analytics platform. As such, it is an alternative to Google Analytics. Since it is...

When your controller action raises an unhandled exception, Rails will look at the exception's class and choose an appropriate...

By convention, common protocols use a defined port, like 80 for HTTP or 443 for HTTPS. You can use nmap...

When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list...

All new browsers support the new object-fit CSS property. It allows to specify how an element behaves within its...

Macs render fonts bolder than they are, especially on dark background. This can be fixed by configuring the font smoothing...

Reading user input in console applications is usually done using Kernel#gets. Stubbing that can be a bit hairy.

When testing Ruby code that prints something to the terminal, you can test that output. Since RSpec 3.0 there is...

It claims to be even faster and brings a new plugin that polyfills object-fit and object-position. This allows...

Spreewald gives you the within meta step that will constrain page inspection to a given scope. Unfortunately, this does not...

When you find yourself in the situation that you would like to define a custom matcher in your specs, but...

To delay your entire Jasmine test suite until the DOM is ready, add the following: beforeAll(function(done) { $(done); });

fake_stripe spins up a local server that acts like Stripe’s and also serves a fake version of Stripe.js...

When dealing with time zones in Rails, there is one key fact to keep in mind: Rails has configurable time...

Expecting a primitive value as an argument to a method invocation is easy: expect(object).to receive(:foo).with('arg1...

OAuth requires a set of params to be carried along requests, among which a nonce. Some libraries pass these along...