bower-rails is a great solution for managing vendored assets in your Rails app. It feels especially much more convenient...

JavaScript structures that include circular references can't be serialized with a"plain" JSON.stringify. Example: a = { name: 'Groucho' };

A nice bookmarklet to analyze how many watchers have been registered on the current page. Good for keeping an eye...

Creating records in specs can be so fast that two records created instantly after one another might have the same...

Returning an empty scope can come in handy, e.g. as a default object. In Rails 4 you can achieve this...

We upgraded a Rails 2 application to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.1, changed the mysql adapter from mysql to mysql2...

This may be hard to find in the docs, but if you want CoffeeScript classes that instantiate their properties from...

This is what worked for me in a Rails 4: # JSON data as first argument, then parameters patch :update, { some...

Modern browsers natively suppport file pickers that allow the user to choose multiple files at once. To activate this feature...

A collection of useful filters for AngularJS, e.g. for fuzzy string searching, displaying numbers as percentages an more.

tl;dr: Use with_index ActiveRecord's find_each with index If you do not provide a block to find...

A different take on what we're doing with ActiveType. Since it lives under the rails organization it might be...

Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.

In Thunderbird, you can set custom font faces and sizes for reading plain-text e-mails. However, Thunderbird sometimes "randomly...

If you're using the :header_html option in PDFKit (or the corresponding --header-html option in wkhtmltopdf), and the...

To avoid n+1 queries, you want to eager-load associated records if you know you need to access them...

Cookies without an expiration timestamp are called "session cookies". [1] They should only be kept until the end of the...

So you want to organize your I18n using multiple .yml files but your Rails 4.1 application simply won't use...

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

Capybara will fail to find tags that are missing an href attribute. This will probably happen to you every now...

When your system is not running on English, you may sometimes want to run some applications and not use your...

Use reorder to replace an existing order clause with a new expression.

The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use...