In a Rails application, *_spec.rb files get special treatment depending on the file's directory. E.g. when you put a...
Makes a robust determination of a user's timezone through Javascript.
Richard Powell presents a collection of CSS styling advice that's mainly taken from SMACSS. Although at makandra we're...
Takes a screenshot when you call it, or when a test fails.
This is for you if you get the following strange error from the state_machine gem: undefined method `-' for #
Turbolinks makes following links in your web application faster. Instead of letting the browser recompile the JavaScript and CSS between...
The __END__ keyword tells Ruby where a file ends – but you don't have to stop there. Any text you...
Randy Hoyt is presenting a way to display something (e.g. products) in a grid. It's responsive, too!
Geordi now supports our solution for running Selenium tests without having Firefox or Chrome windows popping up all over your...
Chances are, something in your project uses the mathn library, which is known to cause infinite loops when rendering the...
Ruby's mathn library changes Fixnum division to work with exact Rationals, so 2 / 3 => 0 2 / 3 * 3 => 0...
Holly Schinsky from Adobe shows some of Bootstrap's capabilities. The combination of explanation, screenshots and source code makes it...
Many jQuery plugins suffer from a good plugin architecture. When you write jQuery plugins you should use the plugin pattern...
If you get this warning on your local machine one of these steps might help: Rebuilt the gem with the...
Example task: Multiply the table holidays between several stages. Open two terminals: shell-for stage_1 shell-for stage_2...
If some of your JavaScripts fail on Internet Explorer, but only in staging or production environments, chances are that JavaScript...
Give your iframe a name attribute (i.e. ) and then simply use When I press "Foo" in the iframe "myframe"
This didn't work for me. Seems display is already taken in Machinist. # in spec/support/blueprints.rb Partner.blueprint do company_name
Never ever declare your associations with a string, especially when doing metaprogramming. A common mistake is something like # WRONG
If this happens to you: user.avatar = Avatar.new user.avatar # => nil (where avatar is a belongs_to), you probably declared your association...
You're using exception_notification and want to send exception mails within a model. Here's how. The ExceptionNotifier class...
This describes how to migrate an existing cucumber test suite to Spreewald. Add the gem Include spreewald into your cucumber...
Cucumber_rails' old-school web-steps have been deprecated for a while, urging developers to write high-level step definitions...
TL;DR Avoid before(:context) (formerly before(:all)), use before(:example) (formerly before(:each)) instead. If you do use before...