techblog.livingsocial.com

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

makandra dev
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

If you want to rotate text, you can use CSS transforms in somewhat modern browsers to rotate the container element...

blog.carbonfive.com

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

Here's a pretty useful steps that hasn't made it into Spreewald yet. It is best used with the...

This is useful to kill processes like ruby my-script.rb: pkill -f my-script.rb With great power comes great responsibility.

makandra dev

Check your GPU state on chrome://gpu. If it reads "WebGL: Hardware accelerated" in the first list, you're set...

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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github.com

Opinionated Angular style guide for teams by @john_papa Not everything in this guide works perfectly for us, but is...

github.com

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...

help.github.com

Please don't simply copy line number links from Github. The URL usually contains a branch name like master which...

If you're on Ruby 2.3+ there's a <<~ operator to automatically unindent HEREDOCs: str = <<~MESSAGE Hello Universe!

railscasts.com

See this Railscast. Basically you can simply write views like index.xlsx.erb: ID Name Release Date Price <% @products.each do |product| %> <%= product.id...

Write a // and indent every subsequent line by two spaces. This is great for documenting BEM blocks! // An action button...

When you want to look up a class for a given factory, do it like this: >> FactoryBot.factories.find('admin').build_class...

patrickmarabeas.github.io

Webfonts are not always available when your JavaScript runs on first page load. Since fonts may affect element sizes, you...

makandra dev
stackoverflow.com

When a CSS3 animation makes the animated element flicker, it may well be due to pixel fragments being handled differently...

tech.bellycard.com

The debate between using mixins or extends in Sass has been heating up recently. From the surface it appears they...

If you want to sort values from an enumerable into two arrays based on whether they match a certain criteria...

To achieve this goal you have to setup the session store like the following example: MyApp::Application.config.session_store( :cookie_store...

presslabs.com

Great crash course into basics and common mistakes.