If you are writing any amount of Javascript, you are probably using closures to hide local state, e.g. to have...
The Bullet gem is designed to help you increase your application's performance by reducing the number of queries it...
The migration DSL now supports adding and removing foreign keys. They are dumped to schema.rb as well. At this time...
tl;dr: Use event.currentTarget unless you are absolutely certain that you need event.target. Since it hasn't been written down...
Your after_commit callbacks will not know about changes, as Rails discards them when committing. The linked article shows a...
Very detailed guide to caching Ruby on Rails. Goes well with the official Rails guide on caching.
If you see a stacktrace beginning with lines like this: E, [2015-07-16T09:23:10.896146 #23308] ERROR -- : app...
CSS (+ some Javascript) framework, implementing Google's material design for static web pages. Can be used for plain websites without...
Disabling auto-complete in login forms is probably a bad idea, since it encourages weak passwords. If you are still...
Today I ran into this: Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/specifications/ZenTest-4.9.3.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["< 2.1, >= 1.8"]. You need a newer Rubygems version. Try...
CSS support in major e-mail clients is horrible. This will give you an overview what you will not be...
Small web application where you can upload an image (PNG, JPEG, GIF) and generate a base64-encoded version of it...
Rails comes with grouped_collection_select that appears to be useful, but isn't. As an alternative, consider the flat...
Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.
Starting from 4.1, Rails automatically detects the inverse of an association, based on heuristics. Unfortunately, it does not seem to...
HTTP/2 will make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust—a rare combination—by allowing us to undo many of...
ActiveModel supplies an errors object that behaves similar to a Hash. It can be used to add errors to a...
Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...
When you register a delegated event using on (or the deprecated delegate / live), it is somewhat hard to manually trigger...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
Please don't use the horrible datetime_select helper. It has a terrible UI. Always prefer to use a visual...
When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your...
When you have an element you want to hide, you can add a ng-show='isOpen' attribute to that element...
If you're a frequent user of LibreOffice, I strongly recommend to checkout out the VLOOKUP function (SVERWEIS in German...