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Rails comes with a Rake task notes that shows code comments that start with "TODO", "FIXME", or "OPTIMIZE".
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Clever hack using data-attributes to assign labels to cells. It's still a massive duplication of code (labels), but...
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Often times you want to give a bunch of elements the same style, except for the last. For example borders...
The debate between using mixins or extends in Sass has been heating up recently. From the surface it appears they...
The CSS property z-index is not as global as you might think. Actually, it is scoped to a so...
Use it like this for inline icons: Germany They also work as block elements:
Here is a Javascript function reloadUsers() that fetches a HTML snippet from the server using AJAX and replaces the current...
This jasmine plugin helps with testing DOM manipulation in two ways: It gives you DOM-related matchers like toBeVisible() or...
jQuery comes with .animate() that lets you transition some CSS selectors: function floatIn($element) { $element.css({ 'opacity': 0, 'margin-top': 200px...
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The benefit of the Rails asset pipeline is that it compiles your stylesheets and javascripts to a single file, respectively...
The Rails asset pipeline improves delivery of application assets (javascripts, stylesheets, images, fonts). Here are some basic facts about its...
Clamps (ie. cuts off) an HTML element's content by adding ellipsis to it if the content inside is too...
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We upgraded a Rails 2 application to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.1, changed the mysql adapter from mysql to mysql2...
PDFKit converts a web page to a PDF document. It uses a Webkit engine under the hood...
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See attached link. The gist is: .element { position: relative; top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%); } Works in all web browsers and...
Be careful to name any file @imported by SASS with a leading underscore. SASS files not beginning with an underscore...
SudoSlider is a simple yet powerful content slider that makes no (or very few) assumptions about your markup and is...
When you cannot make Selenium trigger events you rely on (e.g. a "change" event when filling in a form field...