The basic idea is pretty simple: an element's height is accessible via the offsetHeight property, its drawn height via...
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...
Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.
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...
I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take...
The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release is not backwards compatible to 1...
The classical scenario: There's a parent div element and you want to center some arbitrary child element vertically inside...
When you have two models in a has_many, has_one or belongs_to association, the :inverse_of option in...
JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8 (Chrome, Node) are specifically designed for the fast execution of large JavaScript applications...
Icon fonts like Font Awesome are infinitely scalable, look great on high-DPI displays and will give your app a...
Having your site run on SSL is worthless when you include content over an unsafe connection (HTTP).
ActiveModel::Errors is used to handle validation errors on Rails objects. If you inspect an instance, it feels like a...
If you require your Rails models manually, pay attention to the path you use. Unless you have...
Show failing specs instantly. Show passing spec as green dots as usual. Configuration: # spec/spec.opts (.rspec for rspec 2) --require rspec/instafail...
In a Rails application, *_spec.rb files get special treatment depending on the file's directory. E.g. when you put a...
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
Geordi now supports our solution for running Selenium tests without having Firefox or Chrome windows popping up all over your...
Chances are, something in your project uses the mathn library, which is known to cause infinite loops when rendering the...
This didn't work for me. Seems display is already taken in Machinist. # in spec/support/blueprints.rb Partner.blueprint do company_name
Never ever declare your associations with a string, especially when doing metaprogramming. A common mistake is something like # WRONG
TL;DR Avoid before(:context) (formerly before(:all)), use before(:example) (formerly before(:each)) instead. If you do use before...