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In RSpec you can tag examples or example groups with any tags you like simply by saying describe ReportCreator, slow...

If you want to grow a Ruby Array, you might find out about #fill but it is not really what...

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Code folding is a very useful feature to me. It gives me a quick overview over a file and keeps...

# Given the following models class Image < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :album_images has_many :albums, through: :album_images

To use a form model with devise, you can simply override #resource_class in a controller. A typical use case...

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List of cloud services and SaaS with a free tier for developers or that are generally free for open source...

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yoyo.io

Fontawesome 4 ships with many useful CSS helper classes. Enlarge Icon Add fa-lg (133%), fa-2x, fa-3x, fa...

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Fontawesome 4 has introduced new naming conventions that make it easy to retrieve variants of a given icon.

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Starting from Rails 4.0, you can use a special form options helper called #collection_check_boxes. It behaves similar to...

When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data...

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This cheat sheet...

...aims at providing a quick reference to the most commonly used features in AngularJS.

When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.

There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.

Instead of this: Image.order('images.created_at DESC') You can write this: Image.order(created_at: :desc) Not only do you not...

It's generally not trivial to change a datetime's seconds, minutes, etc in SQL. Here is how it works...

Today I learned that Ruby on Rails has shipped with a built-in slug generator since Rails 2.2:

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github.com

Nested exceptions for Ruby: When you rescue an error and then re-raise your own, you don't have to...

Web applications can be used by multiple users at the same time. A typical application server like Passenger has multiple...

techblog.livingsocial.com

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

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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'

docs.angularjs.org

If you are using Coffeescript, it is likely to be the culprit. Since Coffeescript always returns the value of...

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...