PIE may fail to redraw nested elements when a parent class changes, leaving updated styles stale; changing the target element’s own CSS or markup works around it.

JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.

JavaScript Garden does not aim to teach you JavaScript. Former knowledge of the language is strongly recommended in order to understand the topics covered in this guide

Custom RSpec matcher verifies whether an ActiveRecord record still exists in the database after destruction or cleanup.

Install and harden an SSH daemon on Ubuntu by adjusting sshd_config to block root logins, restrict users, and disable password authentication.

Core vim actions for editing text efficiently: window, buffer, navigation, search, clipboard and undo shortcuts plus syntax highlighting.

Test::Unit lacks built-in mocks and stubs; Mocha adds them and maps common RSpec double, stub, and expectation patterns to mock, stubs, and expects.

Use a Range in ActiveRecord conditions to query between two values, not just match lists; scopes built on condition hashes work with ranges too.

Rails 2.3.10 deprecation warning for url_for :overwrite_params when generating links with replaced query values. params.merge supplies the full parameter set and avoids the warning.

RSpec’s nested documentation format prints example descriptions while specs run, making warnings and failures visible immediately and giving a quick view of core behavior.

Large Sass files delay the first request after edits because CSS is compiled on demand; watching files and compiling ahead of time removes the startup lag.

Clear MySQL data without dropping tables, useful after bad migrations or frozen tests. DatabaseCleaner truncation keeps the schema intact and can be wrapped in a Rake task.

Selenium actions can return before a page finishes loading, so Ruby updates may race with browser-side changes. A Capybara resynchronization step prevents flaky Cucumber features.

Around the time in my life when I stopped ordering drinks made with more than one ingredient, I was woken up for the last time by a hypochondriac Nagios monitoring installation. If you are on-call long enough, you cultivate a violent reaction to the sound of your cell phone's text message alert. If your monitoring is overconfigured, that reaction boils over hastily, as it will interrupt you during meals, sex, sleep — all of the basics — with the excruciating operational details of your web site.

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Adds a slide out panel to your Rails application that directs clients to test stories that have been marked as 'delivered' in Pivotal Tracker.

Changing an association and its foreign key on the same ActiveRecord object can lose the later assignment; the association value wins on save.

Quoted Sass mixin arguments can produce invalid CSS for multi-part values like box-shadow. unquote removes the quotes so generated properties stay valid.

Range#include? becomes slow for non-numeric ranges in Ruby 1.9, while Range#cover? is unavailable in 1.8.7. A compatibility method keeps one check working across both versions.

RubyGems 1.6 can break Capistrano by activating incompatible net-ssh versions; isolating Capistrano in a dedicated Bundler Gemfile restores deployment commands.

Pivotal Tracker supports keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation, search, help, story creation, and toggling backlog, charts, current, done, history, icebox, my work, and labels.

RubyGems 1.6.0 can break Rails 2.x with ActiveSupport::Dependencies::Mutex NameError during startup; loading thread before boot.rb prevents the failure.

Wallaby converts artwork and animation from Adobe Flash Professional FLA files into HTML for wider reach on devices without Flash runtime support.

Distinguish between a simple attribute and an associated object in Person; reflect_on_association lets code branch when a getter refers to a relation.