When you print (or print preview) and elements are cut off (e.g. after 1st page, or "randomly") you should check...

Situation: You want to write a spec for a function inside an Angular service. This function at some point makes...

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If you try to listen to events on elements that are nested inside a , Firefox will stop event propagation once...

By default, browsers will not wrap text at syllable boundaries. Text is wrapped at word boundaries only. This card explains...

httpie.org

HTTPie consists of a single http command designed for painless debugging and interaction with HTTP servers, RESTful APIs, and web...

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When writing XLSX files, there are gems like rubyXL or axlsx. While they do offer features like formatting or graphs...

postgresql.org

PostgreSQL's Common Table Expressions (CTEs) can be used to extract sub-queries from bulky SQL statements into a temporary...

PostgreSQL supports the SQL OVERLAPS operator. You can use it to test if two date ranges overlap: => SELECT ('2001-02...

Summary: Don't add chromedriver-helper to the Gemfile the executables might break your tests in projects where chromedriver-helper...

makandra dev

If your Angular app has some decent complexity, it will not be easy to use UI Router straight away. Here...

makandra dev

Git has two kind of tags: annotated lightweight Annotated tags are stored as full objects in the Git database. They...

relishapp.com

In most projects I know, Cucumber test suite speed is not an issue. Of course, running 350 features takes its...

Sometimes when working with VCR you still want to use webmock. Since VCR hooks into webmock and fails when an...

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When you're using Sidekiq::Web to monitor the Sidekiq status AND have your session cookie configured to a wildcard...

georgemauer.net

If your application exports CSV, be advised that Excel and other spreadsheet applications treat certain cells (those starting with =, +, - or...

requestb.in

Requestb.in is a webservice that gives you a temporary URL you can use to test request. The page will automatically...

When attempting to update RubyGems, depending on updates your previously performed, you might run into an error ERROR: While executing...

We're usually running Ubuntu LTS versions. Sometimes newer hardware requires packages from more recent Ubuntu releases that only come...

A common pattern in Ruby is to to require all files in a specific diretory, using something like Dir.glob(Rails.root.join...

Checking if a JavaScript value is of a given type can be very confusing: There are two operators typeof and...

RSpec allows you to mark a single Example/ExampleGroup so that only this will be run. This is very useful when...

If you already selected an element and want to get its parent, you can call find(:xpath, '..') on it.

If you use awesome and make a Slack call, you'll constantly have an overlay window pop up taking over...

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When an Rspec example fails, I usually investigate by running that example again using rspec . However, this does not work...