robots.thoughtbot.com

Redis comes with a really easy to use Pub/Sub mechanism.

github.com

An official Github repo by Google containing the binary font files served through Google Fonts, so you can easily download...

SELECT table_name, table_rows FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'your_database' order by table_rows;

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jbt.github.io

An online markdown live previewer with GitHub Flavoured Markdown support. Another online markdown live previewer with GitHub Flavoured Markdown support...

robots.thoughtbot.com

Good article about window functions. Also note how they use a postgres feature called common table expressions.

presslabs.com

Great crash course into basics and common mistakes.

jQuery doesn't store information about event listeners and data values with the element itself. This information is instead stored...

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Obviously, you only can do this for your own sites. You need to authenticate a domain you want to remove...

When uploading images, adding more than one process to a version can cause MiniMagick to run multiple commands. In order...

xaprb.com

The linked article explains how to get a database-wide lock without creating table rows: This article explains how I...

nandovieira.com

Postgres 9.4 introduces a new column type: jsonb. json and jsonb columns store data differently, so just compare the two...

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github.com

Gem to show failing specs instantly. Unlike the --fail-fast option it doesn't abort abort on the first failure...

guides.rubyonrails.org

When running migrations with rake db:migrate, there's the STEP and VERSION parameters that you can pass to nearly...

The easiest way to detect touch-capable browsers is to check for the presence of touch events. It is no...

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TL;DR Block formatting contexts establish an isolating container. float and clear only apply to elements within such a container...

The CSS property z-index is not as global as you might think. Actually, it is scoped to a so...

Right-click on the table Select Table... Select Text flow Uncheck Allow row to break across pages and columns

To find a hash key by it's value, i.e. reverse lookup, one can use Hash#key. It's available...

If your angular app is not served on /, but on a different url (say /admin), links generated with ui-router...

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github.com

Flickraw is a library to access flickr api in a simple way. It maps exactly the methods described in the...

With ActiveSupport you can say: class Robot def self.likes_humans? 'Nope.' end delegate :likes_humans?, to: :class end Robot.likes_humans...

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Preview what your markdown would look like on Github. Helpful e.g. when writing or extending a Readme for your gem...

If you want to load an SQL dump from an ActiveRecord migration, you might find this to be harder than...