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To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post...

ghacks.net

Firefox 3.6 users will receive update notifications in April offered through the browser’s internal updating service that will update...

miekd.com

A pull quote is a typographical technique in which an excerpt or quote from an article is duplicated within the...

When you print out a HTML pages, all raster images (like PNGs) will appear aliased. This is because a printer...

When selecting records in a date range, take care not to do it like this: start_date = Date.parse('2007-05...

jQuery UI's date picker and date time picker doesn't work on touch interfaces. Solution 1: Use Mobiscroll

Basically, you now need to know if your project uses a "real" time zone or :local, and if config.active_record.time_zone...

The tagged_with scope comes with many awesome options to modify your search: User.tagged_with("awesome", "cool") # Users that are...

This might seem obvious, but I'm rejecting stories because of this on a regular basis. Whenever a list (e.g...

After my update from MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion the search function in Apple Mail stopped working...

If you're using Paperclip to store and convert images attached to your models, processing a lot of images will...

Code coverage is the ratio of code lines kissed by a test vs. the total number of lines in your...

Association named 'variations' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it? I just was hunting down a strange error with this...

makandra dev

When you're getting this error, one possibility is that you've created a select field for an association instead...

One of the most common production errors are ActionController::MethodNotAllowed errors. They usually happen when someone reloads a form by...

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peter.sh

A list of CSS vendor-prefixes.

github.com

When internationalizing your Rails app, you'll be replacing strings like 'Please enter your name' with t('.name_prompt'). You...

Submit buttons in Rails come with a useful option :disable_with which will disable the button when clicked and change...

developer.mozilla.org

List of non-standard CSS attributes that change how the browser resamples scaled images. Only use them if you know...

For university I have to stay up-to-date with lecture documents. Since my university doesn't offer RSS feeds...

github.com

Framework to write command-line apps in Ruby. Comes with a nice way of processing parameter options, some utility classes...

When you have a complex recipe setup with multistage deployment you may run into this error: `role_list_from': unknown...

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Scenario outlines allow us to more concisely express repetitive examples through the use of a template with placeholders.

makandra dev

When you use one line Ruby comments in ERB templates you should never do this (notice the whitespace in front...