browserhacks.com

The linked site lists a wealth of CSS hacks that let you apply styles to just that one browser. You...

robots.thoughtbot.com

Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

makandra dev

Sometimes it seems a favicon does not work because your browser displays an old version or (in case of local...

Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...

So you want to know if you are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release. $ cat /etc/lsb-release

github.com

MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...

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JavaScripts and CSS should be minified for production use. In Rails 3.1+ the asset pipeline will take care of this...

If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...

So you're using multiple remotes that offer the same branch? $ git branch -a | grep my-branch remotes/something/my-branch remotes/origin/my-branch

You either have an old version of Mocha and an edge version of Rails 3.2, or you have a new...

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github.com

Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...

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github.com

UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.

RVM needs to be updated regularly to know of Ruby versions released since installation (or last update).

In our continued quest to extract proven code snippets from makandropedia into tested and upgradable gems, we have released Edge...

TLDR: Ruby class variables (@@foo) are dangerous in many ways. You should avoid them at all cost. See bottom of...

Microsoft provides virtual machines for different Internet Explorer versions. The images are available for various virtualization solutions, including VirtualBox...

If git gives you an error message such as "fatal: bad config file line 123 in .git/config" after you tried...

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aws.amazon.com

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is video transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use...

We recently had a problem on a Memcache cluster, where one of the servers showed a significantly worse cache hit...

Calling bundle update GEMNAME will update a lot more gems than you think. E.g. when you do this...

Calling bundle update (without arguments) updates all your gems at once. Given that many gems don't care about stable...

github.com

Awesome color schemes for RubyMine, Sublime Text 2 and other editors. To install the themes into your Rubymine, copy intellij...

kernel.org

If you say git stash, your stashed changes will be identified with an automatically generated message: $ git stash