Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...

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blog.idrsolutions.com

If you have issues with PDFs, fix them like this: pdftk .pdf output .pdf Background I had an issue where...

The asset pipeline changes the paths of CSS files during precompilation. This opens a world of pain when CSS files...

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bower-rails is a great solution for managing vendored assets in your Rails app. It feels especially much more convenient...

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JavaScript structures that include circular references can't be serialized with a"plain" JSON.stringify. Example: a = { name: 'Groucho' };

So you want to organize your I18n using multiple .yml files but your Rails 4.1 application simply won't use...

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

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developers.facebook.com

For server-to-server requests to the Facebook Graph API you can skip requesting an Oauth token, an...

Let's say you have two screens: Show a given project Show a report for all projects Ideally you want...

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PDFKit converts a web page to a PDF document. It uses a Webkit engine under the hood...

When using jQueryUI's Sortable plugin (either directly or via Angular's ui.sortable), you might struggle testing your nice drag...

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blog.mailgun.com

Styling HTML email is painful. Tables, inline CSS, unsupported CSS, desktop clients, web clients, mobile clients, various devices, various providers...

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Restmod creates objects that you can use from within Angular to interact with your RESTful API.

When you have an Angular directive that transcludes content, you might want to do something in case there is no...

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feedjira.com

Great gem to consume RSS feeds. I was missing some features on Ruby's RSS::Parser that I found in...

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github.com

Parses URLs of social networks to extract IDs or screen names. It does not get confused by child routes: you...

While RSpec 1 and 2 decided that specs inside spec/model are model specs, and those inside spec/features are feature specs...

When you don't only have a favicon.ico in your project but also PNGs of different sizes and backgrounds, you...

When making cross-domain AJAX requests with jQuery (using CORS or xdomain or similar), you will run into issues with...

teohm.com

The attached post shows some alternative ways to define Strings in Ruby using the percent notation. This can be useful...

If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with...