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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...

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I recently worked on a project with 60+ old feature branches. Most of them had been merged into master and...

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This Firebug feature is called simply Log Events and allows developers to log DOM events into the Console panel.

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No one wants to cry over regression issues in views; does testing HTML and CSS have to be such a...

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ReText is a cross-platform WYSIWYG-ish Markdown editor. Toggle editor and preview layout with Ctrl+E.\

So you got this error, even though your Gemfile bundles mysql2: !!! Missing the mysql2 gem. Add it to your Gemfile...

The behaviour of browsers is very inconsistent when an Ajax request is answered with a redirect. Highlights are:

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A number of issues concerning Sass/SCSS autocompletion and syntax highlighting were submitted as a feedback for RubyMine 4.5. Web development...

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The next version of MySQL will include a built-in memcached daemon. This daemon can quickly get and set key/value...

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For custom Rake tasks, you shouldn't need to modify them after the original definition. However, if you want to...

assignable_values now lets you define a secondary default that is only used if the primary default value is not...

You can use String#demodulize from ActiveSupport: "ActiveRecord::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections" "Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections"

When you develop a gem and you have a Gemfile in your project directory, you might be surprised that your...

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Consul 0.4.0 comes with some new features. Dependencies Consul no longer requires assignable_values, it's optional for when you...

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The usage shares of your site highly depends on your target audience. E.g. no Internet Explorer has ever seen hollyapp.com...

Don't say is_a?(ActiveRecord::NamedScope::Scope) because that is no longer true in Rails 3 and also doesn...

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paper_trail is an excellent gem to track record versions and changes. You almost never want to reimplement something like...