With "attaching an event handler once" you possibly mean one of these two things: Register a function for an event...

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github.com

Note This card does not reflect the current state of lazy loading technologies. The native lazy attribute could be used...

github.com

Ag (aka "the silver searcher") is a very fast replacement for grep. It will parse your .gitignore for additional speedup...

Lead by a discussion of this issue, I built in a middleware which answers those requests with [400] bad request...

Sometimes you just want to have a small web server that serves files to test something. Serve the current directory...

When you're developing a gem, never list the same dependency as both runtime and development dependency in your .gemspec...

While you can use Apache as a reverse proxy, it tries to be too smart. Try nginx instead, it's...

stackoverflow.com

There are many solutions, but a very concise one is this: hash.merge!(hash) do |key, old_value, new_value|

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git rebase -i -> mark your commit with edit git reset HEAD~ (remove the marked commit, but keep its...

While you usually do not need a Content-Type on GET request (which have a blank body), an external API...

Nobody needs HTML e-mails. However, you occasionally might have to write an HTML message for some weird reason. Here...

By pressing Ctrl + Shift + V you can select a recently copied string for pasting.

bugs.ruby-lang.org

This is basically Ruby-native syntax for andand.

When you make a simple TCP connection to a remote server (like telnet), your client won't normally notice when...

If you get an error like: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 78 when installing/removing/updating a package...

You want to test your 1GE or 10GE internet uplink? We needed to ensure we have full 10GE to the...

When dealing with AR scopes, you can remove conditions, order, etc by using the unscope method. It is available on...

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Redactor is yet another WYSIWYG editor. It definitely has its weak points, but I want to point out that it...

postgresql.org

PostgreSQL's array data type is pretty useful, but manipulating values of arrays can be awkward because of its syntax...

Rails 4 introduced raising an error on pending migrations. This is most annoying when you are crafting a migration but...

Ruby allows multiple assignment: a, b, c = o In order to prove multiple values from a single object, Ruby calls...

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Web fonts are great. They are also be really bad for front-end performance because they block rendering. You may...

Our applications not only need to be functional, they need to be fast. But, to quote Donald Knuth, premature optimization...

github.com

When a method has keyword arguments, Ruby offers implicit conversion of a Hash argument into keyword arguments. This conversion is...