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Bundler 1.4.0 (still beta) can install gems in parallel, making a run of bundle install much faster.

When two elements with display: inline-block are sitting next to each other, whitespace between becomes a space character.

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A list of FontAwesome icons in the form of copyable Unicode characters or HTML entities. You might prefer to use...

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CSS3 comes with new unit rem. It works like em but it is always relative to the element instead of...

hagenburger.net

An opinion how to implement BEM. I don't agree with all of Nico's choices, but I applaud his...

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I had some problems with Git and the file spec/fixtures/ČeskýÁČĎÉĚÍŇÓŘŠŤÚŮÝŽáčďéěíňóřšťúůýž. After pulling the latest commits, it would show that...

When two classes implement the same behavior (methods, callbacks, etc.), you should extract that behavior into a trait or module...

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RubyLTS is a long term supported fork of Ruby 1.8 that will continue to receive security updates for the forseeable...

developers.google.com

The Google Chrome DevTools allow you to inspect, debug, and analyze the on-device experience with the full suite of...

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Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets. There is also invoke...

When you have files in your .gitignore they won't be considered for changes, but still you might want to...

Simply give the select helper an option :disabled, passing either a single value or an array. You need to specify...

makandracards.com

So you're hunting down a regression (or just a bug) and want to use git bisect to find out...

Exception notifications contain a lot of information: Backtraces, HTTP headers, etc. exception_notification tries its best to format this wall...

smartinez87.github.io

The new exception_notification has awesome options like :ignore_crawlers => true and :ignore_if => lambda {...

...}. These options should be helpful...

We tend to use database transactions as a magic bullet to get rid of all our concurrency problems. When things...

mock.isssues.com

Sometimes in the course of development you may need to mock HTTP responses. This is a simple service to return...

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muledesign.com

Most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening.

Consul 0.9 comes with many new features to optimize powers that only check access to a given record. e.g. Power.current.post...

For websites that don't do JavaScript rendering on the client, it's best practice to put script tags at...

paulgraham.com

One reason programmers dislike meetings so much is that they're on a different type of schedule from other people...

jimneath.org

The linked page lists and explains global Ruby "dollar" variables, such as: $: (load path) $* (ARGV) $? (Last exit status) $$ (PID)

The cookies object in your controllers and views is a ActionController::CookieJar and even though that class inherits from Hash...

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$RANDOM on bash returns a random integer between 0 and 32767. echo $RANDOM 9816 echo $RANDOM 30922