Access the Method object Dead simple: Get the method object and ask for its owner: "foo".method(:upcase) # => #

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Consider this class: class Foo private def test puts "Hello" end end While you can say create a block to...

Do not pass times to date attributes. Always convert times to dates when your application uses time zones. Background

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Here is a hacky way to load dumps directly from the source server, without fully copying them over and extracting...

When MySQL refuses to use your index, there's a number of things that you may be doing wrong. One...

Good collection of crash-course articles about founding a start up, getting funded, validating ideas, etc.

tl;dr: Do not use merge! for session hashes. Use update instead. Outline Let's assume you're modifying the...

JavaScript has no built-in functions to compare two objects or arrays for equality of their contained values.

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If you open a pop-up window [1] in your Selenium tests and you want to close it, you can...

So you have a method returning a regular expression but one case that should not yield a matching Regexp object...

If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low...

So you're using multiple remotes that offer the same branch? $ git branch -a | grep my-branch remotes/something/my-branch remotes/origin/my-branch

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Counters are an awesome CSS feature you didn't know about. It is supported in all browsers and IE8+.