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).
url = 'http://www.foocorp.com/foo/bar' URI.parse(url).host # => www.foocorp.com Note that this will raise an error if the given argument is...
If you require your Rails models manually, pay attention to the path you use. Unless you have...
Richard Powell presents a collection of CSS styling advice that's mainly taken from SMACSS. Although at makandra we're...
The linked slidedeck holds many tips, of which I list the most interesting to me below DATA and END
Ruby's mathn library changes Fixnum division to work with exact Rationals, so 2 / 3 => 0 2 / 3 * 3 => 0...
If you get this warning on your local machine one of these steps might help: Rebuilt the gem with the...
Example task: Multiply the table holidays between several stages. Open two terminals: shell-for stage_1 shell-for stage_2...
There is no reason to leave trailing whitespace characters in your project's files, so don't add any.
to_file has been removed in Paperclip 3.0.1. Instead of using File to access Paperclip storage objects (like this: File.read...
Today I got a better understanding of how git works, in particular what git checkout and git reset do.
Given you store files on Amazon S3 and you need to stream those files out to people while you don...
Ever wanted autocompletion for paths from paths.rb in Cucumber? This card lets you write your steps like this:
StaticMatic is a nice tool to build simple static websites. In case you want to have some nifty styles on...
Trick: Do not use convert but mogrify: mogrify -resize 50% * This overwrites the original image file. In contrast, convert writes...
Note: Modern Rails has two build pipelines, the asset pipeline (or "Sprockets") and Webpacker. The principles below apply for both...