Ruby 1.9.2 is very slow when loading files, especially starting Rails servers or running specs takes forever.
In a nutshell: Capybara's find will not work properly on nodes from a list. Don't find on elements...
CSS is a lot easier to write and read than clumsy XPath expressions. So when you need to use XPath...
LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...
Note that this seems to affect only recent Rails 2 versions. You will not encounter this until you are writing...
The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, laws, design patterns, and other principles, practices, and...
Recent rails security updates have shown that people make incorrect assumptions about the possible contents of the params hash.
Media Queries have reached W3C Recommendation on June 19th 2012. If you were interested in other (future) web standards you...
This sounds promising: The best part from the Rails side, is that you don’t have to change anything at...
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If you're suffering from a huge de.yml or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your...
Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...
Why string sorting sucks in vanilla Ruby Ruby's sort method doesn't work as expected with special characters (like...
Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...
In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per...
If you have a file that looks like a precompilation fingerprint, the Rails asset pipeline will not see it. So...
The amount helper now retrieves the decimal separator from your I18n dictionary (number.format.separator) instead of hardcoding it to a comma...
A collection of inspirational websites using media queries and responsive web design. Curated by Eivind Uggedal (@uggedal).
The linked article describes how to use a Firefox addon "Flash-Aid" to install a better build of Flash and...
This script loads a dump into your development database. You can provide the full path to you database dump like...
Read the linked article together with this reply to get an appreciation for why it's a bad idea to...
When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app: app/assets/fonts app/assets/images...
xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is...
Some advice for bulk loading many records into InnoDB and finishing before the sun burns out. Use with care.