Using .downcase or .upcase on strings containing umlauts does not work as expected in Ruby versions before 2.4. It leaves...

blog.bitcrowd.net

To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post...

ghacks.net

Firefox 3.6 users will receive update notifications in April offered through the browser’s internal updating service that will update...

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Though Internet Explorer 9 supports the box-shadow CSS property there is a nasty bug which sometimes prevents it from...

miekd.com

A pull quote is a typographical technique in which an excerpt or quote from an article is duplicated within the...

When you print out a HTML pages, all raster images (like PNGs) will appear aliased. This is because a printer...

When selecting records in a date range, take care not to do it like this: start_date = Date.parse('2007-05...

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ExpandAnimations is a LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Impress extension to expand presentation animations before exporting to PDF. This way the exported PDF will...

If you are using Mobiscroll for date pickers on touch devices, here is how to localize the Mobiscroll UI into...

jQuery UI's date picker and date time picker doesn't work on touch interfaces. Solution 1: Use Mobiscroll

Although it's tempting flirt with detecting mobile/touch devices with CSS media queries or Javascript feature detection alone, this approach...

Basically, you now need to know if your project uses a "real" time zone or :local, and if config.active_record.time_zone...

The tagged_with scope comes with many awesome options to modify your search: User.tagged_with("awesome", "cool") # Users that are...

This might seem obvious, but I'm rejecting stories because of this on a regular basis. Whenever a list (e.g...

In your Cucumber features you can't really click hidden elements when using Selenium (it does work for a plain...

After my update from MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion the search function in Apple Mail stopped working...

Add a separator between left-aligned and right-aligned items. In the separator properties, set the style to "Transparent" and...

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Note: capistrano_colors was merged into Capistrano starting from v2.13.5. However, this requires Ruby 1.9+. If you cannot upgrade Capistrano...

webupd8.org

SkypeTab-NG (NG stands for Next Generation) is a tool that adds tabs to Skype for Linux. Besides providing a...

If you're using Paperclip to store and convert images attached to your models, processing a lot of images will...

If you get this error while deploy and you are sure the Gemfile.lock is in the version control check your...

Code coverage is the ratio of code lines kissed by a test vs. the total number of lines in your...

Association named 'variations' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it? I just was hunting down a strange error with this...

makandra dev

When you're getting this error, one possibility is that you've created a select field for an association instead...