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

Safari on iOS accepts an apple-touch-icon favicon that is used for stuff like desktop bookmarks. Always define a...

skype.com

Skype has been updated to 4.3 on Linux. This fixes group chat issues with non-linux clients.

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linux.die.net

When connecting to multiple (i.e. > 4) servers to dive into logfiles or do security updates, terminator is what you want...

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

In whenever you can schedule Ruby code directly like so: every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do runner "MyModel.task_to...

If you have some file or directory that should trigger a Spring reboot, tell Spring e.g. in config/spring.rb: Spring.watch 'file.rb...

The most obvious way to use spring is to call it explicitly: spring rails console spring rake db:migrate...

See screenshot here. This is great news because network throttling is very painful in Linux. The features are already in...

Aruba is an extension to Cucumber that helps integration-testing command line tools. When your tests involve a Rails test...

blog.salsify.com

An all-in-approach to fix the problem of pending AJAX requests dying in the browser when the server ends...

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You need this awkward command: page.driver.browser.action.move_to(page.find(selector).native).perform Note that there are better ways for newer Capybaras...

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

When you tell rbenv to install a Ruby it does not know about, you will get an error message.

SimpleForm is a great approach to simplifying your forms, and it comes with lots of well-defined input types. However...

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mupdf.com

MuPDF is a PDF reader that renders very quickly, yet still correctly. It supports PDF 1.7 and all the fancy...

toptal.com

This is a great tutorials for beginners and intermediate AngularJS developers. It covers a lot of ground, including routing and...

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tldp.org

There are 3 built-in file descriptors: stdin, stdout and stderr (std=standard). (You can define your own, see the...

stackoverflow.com

Create, or edit your ~/.irbrc file to include: require 'irb/ext/eval_history' # was 'irb/ext/save-history' for versions prior to Ruby 3.3 IRB.conf[:SAVE...

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Spring is a Rails application preloader. When debugging e.g. the rails gem, you'll be wondering why your raise, puts...

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menuetos.net

MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language. Menuet64 is released...

Programatically invoke Rails generators Require the generator, instantiate it and invoke it (because generators are Thor::Groups, you need...

docopt.org

docopt helps you define interface for your command-line app, and automatically generate parser for it. docopt is based on...

So you have a restangular collection and you want to remove an element from it, after you've successfully deleted...