Note: This technique is confusing and slows down your test suite. Copy the attached code to features/support. This gets you...
Usually, the logrotate service takes care of renaming log files each night or so to avoid logs becoming huge. That...
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Smashing Magazine lists some handy tricks for print style sheets, all with CSS: Expand External Links For Print
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Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...
Safari & Chrome Use $x() in your console: $x('//span') # selects all span elements Firefox There's an add-on.
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This works well in the simplified case, when your link disappears after it was clicked. Let link_to_remote behave...
You probably know that you can use CSS selectors to match against elements and their attributes, such as:
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Since I'm a software architect and a web developer, I get often approached by people with their new ideas...
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As attachments to this card you will find a Cucumber feature and supplementing step definition that you can use to...
The bash offers control over the behavior of autocompletion. The most primitive example is this (just run it in your...
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Static error pages To add a few basic styles to the default error pages in Rails, just edit the default...
If - for whatever reason - you have to render stylesheets dynamically, the following snippet might be of help. It emulates what...