There seems to be a nasty bug in Chrome 56 when testing with Selenium and Capybara: Slashes are not written...
Web technology is a broad field and you cannot be an expert in all aspects. However, it is useful to...
Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...
Collection of useful tools in the Chrome JavaScript console. Make the whole page editable This is not special to Chrome...
TLDR: A function is hard to use when it sometimes returns a promise and sometimes throws an exception. When writing...
A comprehensive introduction to sending HTML emails. Intro: HTML email: Two words that, when combined, brings tears to a developer...
Chrome gives you the currently selected element in the inspector with $0. If you select a button in the DOM...
Plot graphs in Ruby WebGraphviz renders in your browser via JavaScript (to store the rendered graph, extract the SVG using...
The linked article states that CSS breakpoints should group "similar" screen sizes and thus be at: 600px "narrow"
TL;DR Debugging problems with javascript errors in cucumber tests is sometimes easier in the browser. Run the test, stop...
There is no CSS selector for matching elements that contains a given string ¹. Luckily, Capybara offers the :text option to...
When you're writing specs for ActiveRecord models that use memoization, a simple #reload will not do: it 'updates on...
We used zeroclipboard.js in some of our projects but now we switched to clipboard.js because it does not rely on...
Yesterday I stumbled across a talk in which the guy mentioned module sub-classing. I was curious what you can...
In order to have monitoring for Sidekiq (like queue sizes, last run of Sidekiq) your application should have a monitoring...
This might be relevant for us since we're often managing customer documents in our apps. I played around with...
Same requests are recorded only once in vcr. Replaying a test fails, if you trigger the same request multiple times...
There is no build in functionally in jQuery and Prototype to extract params from a url. You can use this...
ClockPicker is a JavaScript and Bootstrap implementation of an Android-style time picker which looks and feels great. Unfortunately, it...
Sometimes you might need to nest a git-project inside another git-project. The right strategy is to use submodules...
Promises are the new way™ to express "Do this, and once you're done, do that". In contrast to callbacks...
To simulate Rails' to_sentence in your JavaScript application, you can use these few lines of CoffeeScript code: joinSentence = (array...
The linked article shows what current browsers do when you click a link like this: 1-562-867-5309
Resources Rails Guide: Internationalization API Guide to localizing a Rails application Locale-aware helpers in ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper