When you use heredoc, string interpolation is enabled by default: x = "Universe" <<-MESSAGE Hello #{x} MESSAGE # => "Hello Universe"
Sometimes it seems a favicon does not work because your browser displays an old version or (in case of local...
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Here is a hacky way to load dumps directly from the source server, without fully copying them over and extracting...
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...
Good collection of crash-course articles about founding a start up, getting funded, validating ideas, etc.
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...
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
You might get the following error: Unable to initialize. Make sure the daemon is running. Error: Process /usr/lib/sflphone/sflphoned exited with...
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...
MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...
Ruby 1.9 changed the default behavior of Module.const_defined? from what it was in Ruby 1.8 -- this can be especially...
If you open a pop-up window [1] in your Selenium tests and you want to close it, you can...
See attached link for a way to extract the conditions of a named scope in Rails 2.3.
This error can happen in Ruby 1.9. To fix it, add the following line to the top of your .js.erb...
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...
JavaScripts and CSS should be minified for production use. In Rails 3.1+ the asset pipeline will take care of this...
So you have a method returning a regular expression but one case that should not yield a matching Regexp object...
If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...