Large projects usually have large test suites that can run for a long time. This can be annoying as running...
How can a client blame you for a cab driver’s mistake? How can a conference organizer hold you accountable...
CSS (+ some Javascript) framework, implementing Google's material design for static web pages. Can be used for plain websites without...
When using ORDER BY "column" in PostgreSQL, NULL values will come last. When using ORDER BY "column" DESC, NULLs will...
Disabling auto-complete in login forms is probably a bad idea, since it encourages weak passwords. If you are still...
If you need to follow links, click buttons, etc. using Capybara inside an , you can do it like this:
In my RubyMine I have recorded two macros for debugging and linked them to some keyboard shortcuts. Since I believe...
CSS support in major e-mail clients is horrible. This will give you an overview what you will not be...
Rails comes with grouped_collection_select that appears to be useful, but isn't. As an alternative, consider the flat...
If you're supporting IE9+, you can listen to input to see if a text field changes. Other than change...
When working with ActiveType you will often find it useful to cast an ActiveRecord instance to its extended ActiveType::Record...
The differences are subtle. You probably want to use Time, except when you want to use DateTime. See the attached...
Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.
To disable the mostly useless automatic suggestion popups in RubyMine, go to File / Settings, then to Editor / General / Code Completion...
Starting from 4.1, Rails automatically detects the inverse of an association, based on heuristics. Unfortunately, it does not seem to...
There is no such thing as a "default order" of rows in database tables. For instance, when you paginate a...
Since version 2.6 exception notifier distinguishes between foreground and background sections. The reason is that with background jobs (e.g. methods...
ActiveModel supplies an errors object that behaves similar to a Hash. It can be used to add errors to a...
Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...
When you register a delegated event using on (or the deprecated delegate / live), it is somewhat hard to manually trigger...
All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and...
sslscan is a nice tool to show details about TLS/SSL connections: ~> sslscan some-host-at.makandra.de Testing SSL server some-host-at.makandra.de on port 443...
Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...
Please don't use the horrible datetime_select helper. It has a terrible UI. Always prefer to use a visual...