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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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...

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

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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.

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

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The asset pipeline (which is actually backed by sprockets) has a nice feature where templates ending in .jst are compiled...

gaslight.co

We’ve been working on one of our first Angular projects with a Rails backend. It’s been a great...

Do not use .rvmrc files to specify Ruby version and gemset configuration any longer, it's deprecated and not considered...

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For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...

After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.

We sometimes send calender data or tasks using iCalendar (ICS) via eMail as specified in RFC 5545. Recently, a customer...

In contrast to RSpec's included allow_value matcher, the attached matcher will also work on associations, which makes it...

The translation method translate and its alias t have bang brothers: translate! and t!. They will raise I18n::MissingTranslationData on...

Consul 0.10.0 now allows multiple power mappings for nested resources. When using nested resources you probably want two power

When two elements with display: inline-block are sitting next to each other, whitespace between becomes a space character.

In order to keep the controllers directory tidy, we recently started to namespace controllers. With the :controller option you can...

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When you're writing migrations that do more than changing tables (like, modify many records) you may want some output...

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An opinion how to implement BEM. I don't agree with all of Nico's choices, but I applaud his...

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I had some problems with Git and the file spec/fixtures/ČeskýÁČĎÉĚÍŇÓŘŠŤÚŮÝŽáčďéěíňóřšťúůýž. After pulling the latest commits, it would show that...

Ruby's private keyword might do a lot less than you think. "private" does not apply to class methods defined...