A print stylesheet is easy to create. Choose a font suited for paper, hide some elements, done. Unfortunately print stylesheets...

Tempfiles get deleted automatically With the the ruby Tempfile class you can create temporary files. Those files only stick around...

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This article describes how to reset MySQL's or MariaDB's root password on your workstation. It's meant for...

There are many fun Unicode characters like ▲ or ☯. You might be tempted to use them for graphical elements in lieu...

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Nice list of icon sets that come in the form of fonts. I recommend Font Awesome.

sudo apt-get install gnome-session-fallback or (alias) sudo apt-get install gnome-panel from a terminal.

This works in modern RSpecs (RSpec >= 2.x) and Cucumbers: rspec spec/models/node_spec.rb:294:322 cucumber features/nodes.feature:543:563:579

RubyMine: Set specific Ruby version per project

Assuming the following sunspot setup of the post class: class Post < ActiveRecord::Base searchable do text :title string :state

Note: Instead of using the method in this card, you probably want to use ActiveType's nested attributes which is...

Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...

When committing, you should always check the diff of your changes so you don't include any leftovers or irrelevant/bad...

Sometimes you need to look at the filter chain in specs. You can do it like that on Rails 2...

I was experiencing the following problem: It seems your ruby installation is missing psych (for YAML output). To eliminate this...

If you encounter a Firefox that does not care about your font settings but always uses specific fonts, you can...

Never name your shared example group *_spec.rb. Otherwise rspec will try to load your example group as a spec and...

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Internet Explorer until version 9 has some limitations when parsing CSS files Summarized, these are: Up to 31 CSS files...

So your Cucumber feature sometimes dies with this exception: Modal Dialog Present (Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnhandledAlertError) As a seasoned Selenium...

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How delayed jobs can make your after_save callbacks execute before the record is saved.

For string columns, MySQL indexes the left side of a string. That means an index can speed a like query...

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You can quickly access views that belong to a controller by using the tiny "page with arrow" icon in the...

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In Selenium features the server and client are running in separate processes. Therefore, when mocking time with a tool like...

Be careful when stubbing out attributes on records that are defined by associations. Nothing is as it seems to be...

It might be one of the following: You are looking at a manifest file (like application.css) which is always empty...