Shortener is a Rails Engine Gem that makes it easy to create and interpret shortened URLs on your own domain...
If bower complains about a missing node binary, do not install Ubuntu's node package. Instead, you need to create...
Hash#fetch is a great way to ensure that a hash key is present. The error message when a key...
Rails migrations allow you to use a change method whose calls are automatically inverted for the down path. However, if...
Upgrading from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.1.2 took me an hour for a medium-sized application. It involved hardly any changes...
For our production servers we use Passenger as a Ruby application server. While it is possible to use Passenger for...
Cucumber allows for prose in features and scenarios. Example: Feature: Cancel account There are several ways to cancel a user...
On your credit card summary, you will find order numbers of rides with Deutsche Bahn ("DB BAHN A-NR XYZ123...
If you make a gem with Bundler, you will get a rake release task that will instantly publish your gem...
This is a problem when using Selenium with Firefox. We recommend using ChromeDriver for your Selenium tests. Firefox will not...
MetricsGraphics.js is a library built on top of D3 that is optimized for visualizing and laying out time-series data...
Using this gem I could get JSON generation from a large, nested Ruby hash down from 200ms to 2ms.
Confusingly, RVM installs the bundler gem into the @global gemset, which is available to all gemsets and Rubies.
By default, Twitter Bootstrap's print styles include printing links. /* Bootstrap's way of printing URLs */ @media print {
Restangular can make use of $http's built-in response cache. # Cache response for single request Restangular.one('accounts', 123).withHttpConfig...
To bind an HTML value to ng-bind-html, you need to mark it as "trusted" first. Among other ways...
When you need to check a value for presence, don't rely on JavaScript since it considers 0 or "0...
Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...
tlmgr is the TeX Live Manager and responsible for the TeX installation on your (Linux) machine. If you're getting...
If you have issues with PDFs, fix them like this: pdftk .pdf output .pdf Background I had an issue where...
Just install the texlive-xetex package: sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex Running integration tests without texlive-xetex will produce...
In a JavaScript console, type this: > 9112347935156469760 9112347935156470000 Ooops. And that's not a float! This occurs because JavaScript uses...
Browsers make this very hard. Even when you explicitely set the selection inside the textarea (e. g. using jquery-fieldselection...
The asset pipeline changes the paths of CSS files during precompilation. This opens a world of pain when CSS files...