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If you already selected an element and want to get its parent, you can call find(:xpath, '..') on it.
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Browsers support different types of redirects. Be very careful with these status codes: 301 Moved Permanently 308 Permanent Redirect
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The linked article shows how to exploit websites that include unsanitized user input in their CSS. Although the article often...
Hack to implement an inverted "night mode" theme with a few lines of CSS. Colors in images are preserved.
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When you want to group rails models of a logical context, namespaces are your friend. However, if you have a...
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After loading a staging dump into development, you might get an ActiveRecord::EnvironmentMismatchError when trying to replace the database (like...
On my Ubuntu MATE machine, switching applications with ALT + TAB was impossible, because it took nearly 2 seconds. The culprit...