For clarity and traceability, your commit messages should include the ID and title of the Pivotal Tracker story you're...
The following initializer provides an :alias => "my_route_name" option to restful routes in your route.rb. This simply makes the...
Regular spaces and non-breaking spaces are hard to distinguish for a human. Instead of using the HTML entity...
Use this scope: class Stick named_scope :shuffled, lambda { last_record = last { :conditions => [ 'id >= ?', rand(last_record.id) ] } if last_record }
Thanks to habits engrained by Rails 2’s link_to_remote and remote_form_for, we expect that Rails 3...
This note describes how to setup a box running Ubuntu to share its Internet connection with another PC.
CONCAT('foo', 'bar', NULL) = NULL the NULL always wins in MySQL. If you would rather treat NULL as...
If a controller action responds to other formats than HTML (XML, PDF, Excel, JSON, ...), you can reach that code in...
This returns the name (including path) of your current layout: response.layout => "layouts/admin" # inside views that are using the 'admin' layout...
You will need to upgrade to RSpec >= 2 and rspec-rails >= 2 for Rails 3. Here are some hints to...
In rare cases you might need something like form_for (for using form builder methods on the resulting block element...
When using form_for you can give the form's target URL either as a string or an array:
If you previously used version 2.x of Thunderbird and upgraded to 3.x (for example through an Ubuntu release...
Lately, we’ve been exploring ways to offer web apps that perform like native apps on mobile devices. For this...
Sometimes the order in which strings appear on a page matters to you. Spreewald gives you steps like these:
Note: We are talking about Machinist 1 here, Machinist 2 may have solved this or might require a different approach...
This post will describe how I stumbled upon a code path in the Linux kernel which allows external programs to...
[ ] [ ]= ** ! ~ + - * / % + - >> << & ^ | <= < > >= <=> == === != =~ !~ && || .. ... ? : = %= { /= -= += |= &= >>= <<= *= &&= ||= **= defined? not or and if unless while until begin/end For more information see Table 18.4 in The Pragmatic Programmer's...
If you have several submit elements (inputs or buttons with type="submit") that each cause different things to happen (e.g...
Note that you should disable the Java plug-in in your browsers after installation. Ubuntu >= 12.04 Java 11
Cucumber step argument transforms can be a powerful way to make your steps more flexible. Note however that if your...
RSpec's context (which is basically an alias for describe) takes over your whole application. No object may have its...
In /etc/crontab In /etc/cron.d/* In /etc/cron.hourly/* In /etc/cron.daily/* In /etc/cron.weekly/* In /etc/cron.monthly/* In the personal crontab of any user. This...
You don't need a Rails application to use Sass. Even when you're working on a static site you...