If you're still working on ruby 1.8, you should know that using SimpleDelegator is often prohibitively slow. I have...
# Attach a file # # Example: # # Company.new.logo = File.new… # # Given the file "…" was attached as logo to the company above # # # Example: # # class Gallery...
This error occurs when you already have a database.yml which defines the database for the cucumber environment instead of test...
Say you have a User with a Carrierwave attribute #avatar: class User < ActiveRecord::Base mount_uploader :avatar, AvatarUploader end
Rubymine supports keybinding to switch panes by hotkey like awesome window manager users are used to. Type "splitter" in the...
When you want to find out the data type of an attribute, you can just use ActiveRecord's columns_hash...
I've written about the problem with user stories before. At the time, I found it better to just have...
Note - This is not a tutorial on setup or configuration of Secure Shell, but is an overview of technology which...
Rack::Attack is a rack middleware to protect your web app from bad clients. It allows whitelisting, blacklisting, throttling, and...
FastClick is a simple, easy-to-use library for eliminating the 300ms delay between a physical tap and the firing...
If you get a Quota error with OpenStack, it doesn't have to be what it tell. For example, I...
Syn is a synthetic event library that pretty much handles typing, clicking, moving, and dragging exactly how a real user...
A clever way to have inline labels ("placeholders") that don't disappear when the user enters text.
Sometimes you need to monitor a connection from your machine to a specific, single host or network in order to...
Use protocol independent URLs whenever possible so that the browser will choose the protocol related to the protocol which the...
A better way to search Font Awesome & Glyphicons.
When I upgraded from 0.5.4 PDFKit deadlocked or crashed when an ApplicationController::RouteError occured. If this error happens only because...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...
Font Combiner offers a way to tweak and adjust any TTF or OTF font (license permitting), by bringing in font...
I am using git at several places: at work, at university, and at home. I want an own git user/email...
A DSL for handling method_missing hooks.
Usually our mysql queries are not case sensitive. In order to query case sensitive, you can use the mysql COLLATE...
After reading, you will know why and how runners.each(&:run) works. Here some tidbits: & can be quite confusing because it...
Awesome Sass plugin to experiment with Subtle Patterns based textures. It automatically removes the base color from the pattern, leaving...