You should prefer native promises to jQuery's Deferreds. Native promises are much faster than their jQuery equivalent. Native promises...
Native promises have no methods to inspect their state. You can use the promiseState function below to check whether a...
You can use local copies of gems in your Gemfile like this: gem 'spreewald', path: '~/gems/spreewald' As soon as you...
rack-cargo gives your API a new /batch route that lets clients perform multiple API calls with a single request...
Sometimes you add Paperclip image styles, sometimes you remove some. In order to only keep the files you actually need...
ImageMagick can automatically crop surrounding transparent pixels from an image: convert input.png -trim +repage output.png
I often see the use of || to set a default value for a variable that might be nil, null or...
Capybara clears cookies before each scenario, but not other client-side data stores. If your app is using localStorage or...
Rails 5 (don't know about the others) comes with an initializer wrap_parameters.rb. Here you can tell rails to wrap...
Put the line below in the respective env.rb file to make your action controllers raise an ActionController::UnpermittedParameters error when...
When using geordi for integration tests you might get the following error when trying to run geordi cucumber:
First, go to the webinterface of your phone. Choose Software Update in the navigation on the left. Next, you have...
If your Snom 300 always keeps the same volume for headset and ringtone (as soon as you change one you...
select2 is a great jQuery library to make (large) fields more usable. For Bootstrap 3 there is select2-bootstrap-theme...
Capistrano has the concept of a "rollback" that comes in really handy in case of errors. When you notice that...
Webpack is the future. We're using it in our latest Rails applications. For tests, we want to compile assets...
I needed to make sure that an element is visible and not overshadowed by an element that has a higher...
If you use the Better Errors gem, you will sometimes notice that it can be very slow. This is because...
Shoulda Matchers don't provide canditional validations (validations with if: option). Here is how to write tests for the condition...
RawGit serves raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers, for CDN-like purposes. Note that they don...
When using GROUP BY, MySQL now complains if the SELECT includes columns which are not part of the GROUP BY...
Nowadays it is fairly easy to intercept and modify mails globally before they are sent. All you have to do...
ChromeDriver clicking works by simulating a mouse click in the middle of the element's first client rect (or bounding...
Since Rails 5, domain models inherit from ApplicationRecord by default. This is the place to put code that should be...