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Small web application where you can upload an image (PNG, JPEG, GIF) and generate a base64-encoded version of it...

Rails comes with grouped_collection_select that appears to be useful, but isn't. As an alternative, consider the flat...

If you're supporting IE9+, you can listen to input to see if a text field changes. Other than change...

github.com

When working with ActiveType you will often find it useful to cast an ActiveRecord instance to its extended ActiveType::Record...

gist.github.com

The differences are subtle. You probably want to use Time, except when you want to use DateTime. See the attached...

Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.

To disable the mostly useless automatic suggestion popups in RubyMine, go to File / Settings, then to Editor / General / Code Completion...

guides.rubyonrails.org

Starting from 4.1, Rails automatically detects the inverse of an association, based on heuristics. Unfortunately, it does not seem to...

postgresql.org

There is no such thing as a "default order" of rows in database tables. For instance, when you paginate a...

chimera.labs.oreilly.com

HTTP/2 will make our applications faster, simpler, and more robust—a rare combination—by allowing us to undo many of...

google.com

Surprisingly exhaustive new icon set by Google. Available as PNG, SVG and as a icon font. Comment from Henning

Since version 2.6 exception notifier distinguishes between foreground and background sections. The reason is that with background jobs (e.g. methods...

makandra dev
api.rubyonrails.org

ActiveModel supplies an errors object that behaves similar to a Hash. It can be used to add errors to a...

Note: Making a reverse proxy with nginx is much more straightforward. A reverse proxy is a "man in the middle...

When you register a delegated event using on (or the deprecated delegate / live), it is somewhat hard to manually trigger...

caniuse.com

All major browsers (IE8+, FF3.5+, Safari 4+, any Chrome) support sessionStorage, a JavaScript storage object that survives page reloads and...

sslscan is a nice tool to show details about TLS/SSL connections: ~> sslscan some-host-at.makandra.de Testing SSL server some-host-at.makandra.de on port 443...

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semaphoreci.com

Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...

github.com

If you have FactoryGirl traits like this: factory :movie do title 'Sunshine' year 2007 trait :vintage do year 1951

Please don't use the horrible datetime_select helper. It has a terrible UI. Always prefer to use a visual...

Starting with has_defaults 0.4.2, default values that are lambdas are no longer called with the current object as argument...

FactoryBot.define do factory :parent do transient do child_name nil child_allowed_to_drive false end child do association(:child...

When using Savon to connect a SOAP API, you may want to use Savon::SpecHelper to mock requests in your...

askubuntu.com

I was annoyed that RubyMine's autocompletion did not work via Ctrl+Space for me. In fact, it did not...