Most forms have a single submit button that will save the record when pressed. Sometimes a form needs additional submit...
Google Chrome has a subtle rendering bug that hits me once in a while. It usually occurs in sliders with...
As a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one...
Rails defines a #truncate helper as well as a method String#truncate. = truncate("my string", length: 5) = "my string".truncate...
The 90s are calling: they want their tables back. Unfortunately, you need them all for laying out your HTML emails...
TL;DR Append your locale keys with _html to have them marked as html_safe and translate them with = t...
When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a...
You know that you can use jQuery's text() to get an element's contents without any tags.
For outputting a given String in HTML, you mostly want to replace line breaks with or tags.
Lets say we have a user with a contract whereas contract is a mounted carrierwave file. Now we want to...
Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...
When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use...
When making requests using curl, no cookies are sent or stored by default. However, you can tell curl to re...
When you print (or print preview) and elements are cut off (e.g. after 1st page, or "randomly") you should check...
By default, browsers will not wrap text at syllable boundaries. Text is wrapped at word boundaries only. This card explains...
An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium...
When your public-facing application has a longer downtime for server maintenance or long migrations, it's nice to setup...
Slides for Henning's talk on Sep 21st 2017. Understanding sync vs. async control flow Talking to synchronous (or "blocking...
If you are using PDFKit / wkhtmltopdf, you might as well want to use custom fonts in your stylesheets. Usually this...
Download the dictionary from http://www.winedt.org/dict.html, e.g. http://www.winedt.org/dict/de_neu.zip unzip de_neu.zip mkdir ~/Documents/dic iconv -f UTF-16 -t...
The linked article shows how to exploit websites that include unsanitized user input in their CSS. Although the article often...
This is useful if, for example, you want to use a background-image that has to scale with the width...
By default Middleman generates files with a .html extension. Because of this all your URLs end in /foo.html instead of...
Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.