Be careful! The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're...

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In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used...

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Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis (@brianreavis) to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on...

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WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD...

Expiration of Rails sessions By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window. To change this edit...

Embedded Flash movies do not always obey element order and z-index. To fix this, set the wmode attribute to...

When submitting textareas, browsers sometimes include carriage returns (\r) instead of just line feeds (\n) at the end of each...

When a spec only runs when it is called directly, but not as part of the whole test suite, make...

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By default, Cucumber uses mocha. This note shows to use RSpec stubs and mocks instead. Rspec 1 / Rails 2

Since RubyMine 3.1 you can drag tabs across panes/windows and out of the main window to create new windows.

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The following Haml will do: %head{ :profile => 'http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile' } %link{ :href => image_path('favicon.ico'), :rel => 'icon', :type => 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon' }

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If you want to exclude your staging site from Google using robots.txt without running the risk to forget deleting the...

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There are two distinct ways of commenting Haml markup: HTML and Ruby. HTML comments This will create an HTML comment...

This raises "Could not find first Keyword": describe Keyword do it { should validate_uniqueness_of(:text) } end Do this instead...

To return non-HTML responses (like XLS spreadsheets), we usually use the respond_to do |format| format.xls do # send spreadsheet...

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If you added a file by mistake, you can unstage it (but keep local changes) by saying git reset HEAD...

The box shadows created rendered in IE by CSS3PIE look darker and are blurred differently than in browsers that render...

The state_machine gem ships with a scope with_state. This scope has some problems in complex queries or scope...

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Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.

This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\ Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin...

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There are three ways to define your own RSpec matchers, with increasing complexibility and options: 1) Use RSpec::Matchers.define

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

When you create e.g. a sidebar box that contains headlines and paragraphs, the final paragraph's margin in that box...