Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...
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:
You can use the content CSS attribute to set an element's content -- which is especially useful for the :before...
Since I'm a software architect and a web developer, I get often approached by people with their new ideas...
January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote...
Defining one callback several times in the same class behaves different in ActiveRecord and ResourceController. While in ActiveRecord the callbacks...
Awesome color schemes for RubyMine, Sublime Text 2 and other editors. To install the themes into your Rubymine, copy intellij...
Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (ab) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the...
If you use Tempfile and pass your own filename containing an extension, it will just be consumed by the Tempfile...
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...
When searching for text in a MySQL table, you have two choices: The LIKE operator FULLTEXT indexes (which currently only...
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...
Git commits should be very deliberate, and only contain changes that you really want to be in there. In order...
Debugging .htaccess is hell, and RewriteRules in particular if they are not working as expected. But fear not! RewriteLog will...
If some AJAX functionality does not work, but you see Firefox making an OPTIONS request, the reasons is most likely...
You know that you can force absolute URLs throughout a response. Now you want to modify URLs similarly, but only...
Capybara uses www.example.com as the default hostname when making requests. If your application does something specific on certain hostnames and...
If you don't want to mess around with arcane incantations inside xorg.conf, you can use the graphical arandr tool...
Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I...
You can use scheme-less URLs (or protocol-relative URLs) to have browsers use the current protocol (HTTP or HTTPS...
Having your site run on SSL is worthless when you include content over an unsafe connection (HTTP).