There are several ways to merge two (or more) PDF files to a single file using the Linux command line...

Edge (and some versions of Internet Explorer, like IE11) use to render a × clear input button on text fields. While...

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Within a Flexbox layout, there are multiple CSS attributes that may affect a child's basis (the initial width before...

Rails is split into a large number of (sub-) frameworks. The most important and central of those are activesupport (extends...

When upgrading Clearance, pay attention whether the password hashing strategy might have changed. Old clearance versions (< 1.0) used SHA1-encrypted...

MariaDB (and MySQL) is released in different versions with different behaviors. For backwards compatibility this can be managed with the...

When a user shares your content, a snippet with title, image, link and description appears in her timeline. By default...

You can share a state in Ruby with global variables. Even if you should avoid them whenever possible, for debugging...

Capistrano automatically logs each (successful) deployment into a file on your application servers. It is located at the root of...

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General hints on the DOM the root of the DOM is document custom elements inherit from HTMLElement. They need a...

When an AJAX request raises an exception on the server, Rails will show a minimal error page with only basic...

Sometimes, due to git or other "accidents", important files get deleted or overwritten. At a state when even Ctrl+Z...

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Two weeks ago, Cloudflare was struck by a global outage that lasted ~30 minutes. The incident was rooted on a...

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webpack is a very powerful asset bundler written in node.js to bundle (ES6) JavaScript modules, stylesheets, images, and other assets...

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From Ubuntu 17, rbenv fails to install Ruby below 2.4 because of a mismatching OpenSSL dependency: it needs libssl1.0-dev for...

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Inspecting the source of an email does not always reveal the plain HTML source, but some encoded byte mess. In...

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git apply allows you to apply a diff onto your HEAD. Most often you can achieve the same result with...

RubyMine comes with a nice way to grep through your project's files: The finder (ctrl + shift + f). Don't...

Element finding is a central feature of Capybara. Since #find is normally used to get elements from the current page...

Jasmine has long standing support for writing asynchronous specs. In days gone by we used the done callback to achieve...

The goal is to get Jasmine specs running in a Rails project using Webpacker, with the browser based test runner...

If your Ruby project includes a gem like Spreewald that comes with some external step definition, RubyMine does not know...

If rspec hangs with no output and you dont get a backtrace neither with --backtrace nor by just killing it...

With ActiveType 1.2 you can modify associations (has_many etc.) after they have been defined. One common use case for...