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getfirebug.com

You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.

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The idea is this: you take a job that you'd rather not do manually, and describe it to babushka...

A check if two date or time ranges A and B overlap needs to cover a lot of cases:

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alfajango.com

The difference between .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() is not always apparent. Having a clear understanding of all the differences, though...

Sometimes it is useful to define a named scope by implementing a static method with the scope's name on...

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There are times when you need to send SQL to the database, like this: def self.some_count(field) field = connection.quote...

Then /^I should get a response with status (\d+)$/ do |status| response.status.should include(status) end Capybara Then /^I should...

This card describes a Cucumber step that lets you say: When I perform basic authentication as "username/password" and I visit...

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In case https://www.rubydoc.info/ is to slow or offline, you can also read a gem documentation offline. Start a server...

opensoul.org

I love ETags, but there’s something that annoys me: most implementations revolve around pulling a record out of a...

Are you adding a "Then show me the page" and re-run Cucumber whenever there is a failing scenario? Don...

Find-as-you-type boxes are usually built by observing changes in a text field, and querying the server via...

From time to time we're convinced that an error must be very close to the network card, OS IP...