developer.rackspace.com

Establishing a new SSH connection usually takes only a few seconds, but if you’re connecting to a server multiple...

If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...

You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...

Copy the attached file to features/support. This gets you a convenience method: Capybara.javascript_test? Is true for Selenium, capybara-webkit...

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github.com

Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside...

stackoverflow.com

If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...

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shouldiusesoa.com

A practical guide.

When writing Rails migrations to convert a string column to an integer you'd usually say: change_column :table_name...

askubuntu.com

If your XFCE renders text with overly hard, thin lines instead of smooth anti-aliased lines, you might need to...

Working with lists in Javascript is painful because the native Array class is so poorly designed. One way to reduce...

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docs.google.com

Presentation about awesome changes we can look forward to.

So you're switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL? Here is some help... General hints on PostgreSQL \? opens the command overview...

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The mysql2 gem in version 0.3.13 might break while compiling on older patch releases of Ruby 1.9.3 within rvm:

Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...

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compass-style.org

Since we are migrating from our homegrown mixins.sass and helpers.sass to Compass, here is a list of all the mixins...

kumailht.com

Responsive elements makes it possible for any element to adapt and respond to the area they occupy. This is different...

dusen 0.4.8 and edge_rider 0.2.3 no longer depend on Rails (they still depend on ActiveRecord). That means you can...

tjvantoll.com

Did you know you can color your line-throughs or underline, or make them wavy like spell-checkers do?

speakerdeck.com

Awesome slide deck about taking liberties with design requirements in order to keep the CSS simple.

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skillsmatter.com

With Rails 4, Concerns have become the “official” solution to the big-models problem. However, there’s a fair amount...

slant.co

Long list of fonts suitable for coding. With screenshots.

angular-tips.com

Angular comes with different types of services. Each one with its own use cases. All of these services are singletons...