browserhacks.com

The linked site lists a wealth of CSS hacks that let you apply styles to just that one browser. You...

Consider this class: class Foo private def test puts "Hello" end end While you can say create a block to...

Do not pass times to date attributes. Always convert times to dates when your application uses time zones. Background

Ruby 1.8 (supplied by Rails' ActiveSupport) >> BigDecimal.new("0.1").floor.class => BigDecimal Ruby 1.9 (supplied by Ruby 1.9 itself) >> BigDecimal.new("0.1").floor.class...

ariejan.net

Rails understands a :limit options when you create columns in a migration. Its meaning depends on the column type, and...

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Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

Google Chrome saves your profile data in ~/.config/google-chrome. To transfer the profile to for example a system you have setup...

makandra dev

Sometimes it seems a favicon does not work because your browser displays an old version or (in case of local...

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TL;DR: You should generally use #size to count associated records. size Counts already loaded elements If the association is...

Here is a hacky way to load dumps directly from the source server, without fully copying them over and extracting...

mysqlperformanceblog.com

When MySQL refuses to use your index, there's a number of things that you may be doing wrong. One...

Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...

calc() lets you mix CSS units. Ever wanted to give an element "the container's width minus 20px on each...

tl;dr: Do not use merge! for session hashes. Use update instead. Outline Let's assume you're modifying the...

Safari & Chrome Use $x() in your console: $x('//span') # selects all span elements Firefox There's an add-on.

JavaScript has no built-in functions to compare two objects or arrays for equality of their contained values.

Watch out when saying something like 1.year in Rails. The result is not a Fixnum and can cause unexpected errors...

So you want to know if you are on natty, precise, quantal, or something else? Check /etc/lsb-release. $ cat /etc/lsb-release

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Mozilla has announced that, starting with Firefox 22, the popular open source web browser will begin blocking third-party cookies...

In Ruby 1.9, instance_eval calls the block the with receiver as the first argument: In Ruby 1.8, receiver.instance_eval...

github.com

MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...

apidock.com

Ruby 1.9 changed the default behavior of Module.const_defined? from what it was in Ruby 1.8 -- this can be especially...

makandracards.com

See attached link for a way to extract the conditions of a named scope in Rails 2.3.

gist.github.com

Rails 2.3.16+ on Ruby 1.9 causes warnings like this: .../gems/activesupport-2.3.17/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb:22: warning: regexp match /.../n against to UTF-8 string...