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When using send_file (for example for attachments of any kind), make sure your application knows the correct mime types...

You can freeze any Ruby object to prevent further modification. If you freeze an ActiveRecord and try to set an...

Rails comes with a Rake task notes that shows code comments that start with "TODO", "FIXME", or "OPTIMIZE".

If you want to grow a Ruby Array, you might find out about #fill but it is not really what...

# Given the following models class Image < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :album_images has_many :albums, through: :album_images

github.com

List of cloud services and SaaS with a free tier for developers or that are generally free for open source...

yoyo.io

Fontawesome 4 has introduced new naming conventions that make it easy to retrieve variants of a given icon.

edgeapi.rubyonrails.org

Starting from Rails 4.0, you can use a special form options helper called #collection_check_boxes. It behaves similar to...

When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data...

When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.

There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.

Instead of this: Image.order('images.created_at DESC') You can write this: Image.order(created_at: :desc) Not only do you not...

It's generally not trivial to change a datetime's seconds, minutes, etc in SQL. Here is how it works...

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github.com

Nested exceptions for Ruby: When you rescue an error and then re-raise your own, you don't have to...

Web applications can be used by multiple users at the same time. A typical application server like Passenger has multiple...

techblog.livingsocial.com

Clever hack using data-attributes to assign labels to cells. It's still a massive duplication of code (labels), but...

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relishapp.com

RSpec 3 has verifying doubles. This breed of mock objects check that any methods being stubbed are present on an...

If you need to log to a file you can use Ruby's Logger class: require 'logger'

Dusen (our search gem) is now capable of excluding words, phrases and qualified fields from search. E.g. search for

docs.angularjs.org

If you are using Coffeescript, it is likely to be the culprit. Since Coffeescript always returns the value of...

blog.carbonfive.com

What if a complicated component comes along that is naturally modeled by multiple directives? This group of directives, as a...

stackoverflow.com

TL;DR You shouldn't call $scope.$apply() or $scope.$digest() inside a function that can be invoked by Angular...

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You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...

w3.org

Often times you want to give a bunch of elements the same style, except for the last. For example borders...