tl;dr: Use with_index ActiveRecord's find_each with index If you do not provide a block to find...

engineyard.com

Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.

In Thunderbird, you can set custom font faces and sizes for reading plain-text e-mails. However, Thunderbird sometimes "randomly...

api.rubyonrails.org

To avoid n+1 queries, you want to eager-load associated records if you know you need to access them...

Cookies without an expiration timestamp are called "session cookies". [1] They should only be kept until the end of the...

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

Capybara and most assistive technology will fail to find tags that are missing an href attribute. This will probably happen...

When your system is not running on English, you may sometimes want to run some applications and not use your...

ruby.about.com

The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use...

makandra dev

We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

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developers.facebook.com

For server-to-server requests to the Facebook Graph API you can skip requesting an Oauth token, an...

Getting rid of your old LibreOffice Remove your old LibreOffice: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* You probably also want to...

doubleyourfreelancing.com

How you can unknowingly screw your client's business when all you think about is closing the next user story...

Let's say you have two screens: Show a given project Show a report for all projects Ideally you want...

Sometimes you need complex expectations on method arguments like this SomeApi.should_receive(:find).with(:query => '*foo*', :sort => 'timestamp ASC', :limit...

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github.com

PDFKit converts a web page to a PDF document. It uses a Webkit engine under the hood...

alexsquest.com

Talks about some basics of software complexity. Very nice illustrations.

stackoverflow.com

If you want to move an element inside an array, neither JavaScript/ES6+ nor libraries like LoDash offet that natively.

When using jQueryUI's Sortable plugin (either directly or via Angular's ui.sortable), you might struggle testing your nice drag...

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blog.mailgun.com

Styling HTML email is painful. Tables, inline CSS, unsupported CSS, desktop clients, web clients, mobile clients, various devices, various providers...

Yesterday, Rails fixed a security issue (CVE-2014-3514) in Rails 4+. It was possible to use .where...

Nearly all jQuery traversal functions ignore elements that are not HTML tags. To work with other type of nodes (like...

These two addons will change your life: Search as list This will always open search results in the list views...