The linked article shows how to exploit websites that include unsanitized user input in their CSS. Although the article often...

Let's say you have a form that you render a few times but you would like to customize your...

When localizing model attributes via I18n you may run into errors like this: I18n::InvalidPluralizationData: translation data {...

...} can not be...

Rails 5 (don't know about the others) comes with an initializer wrap_parameters.rb. Here you can tell rails to wrap...

When using geordi for integration tests you might get the following error when trying to run geordi cucumber:

Webpack is the future. We're using it in our latest Rails applications. For tests, we want to compile assets...

When storing a file with Carrierwave, it is always cached prior to actually storing it (to support form roundtrips).

Rails default config uses the ActiveSupport::Cache::NullStore and disables controller caching for all environments except production: config.action_controller.perform_caching = false...

These tools help you in checking websites globally: DNS Checker This tool allows for global DNS propagation checking. GeoScreenshot

This is useful if, for example, you want to use a background-image that has to scale with the width...

Typhoeus has a different way of representing array params in a get request than RestClient. Typhoeus: http://example.com/?foo[0]=1&foo[1]=2&foo[2]=3

By default Middleman generates files with a .html extension. Because of this all your URLs end in /foo.html instead of...

Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.

In modern default RSpec configurations, your tests are usually run in random order. This helps to detect "flickering" tests that...

RubyMine provides a visual tool for resolving merge conflicts locally. Follow Git > Resolve Conflicts in the context menu to open...

The parallel-gem is quite easy to use and can speed up rendering time if you want to render the...

Imagine the following HTML structure, where the scrolling container has overflow-y: scroll: +--scrolling container+-+ | | | +-child element+----+ | | | ++iframe++ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------------+ | | | | <-- actually cut...

Some pseudo-elements need to be addressed with vendor prefixes. E.g. ::selection is not supported by Firefox, you need to...

Sometimes you want/have to send specific http(s) requests. You can do that easy with curl or just write the...

ImageMagick has a command line tool called identify which can read image metadata: >identify -verbose DSC00136.JPG Image: DSC00136.JPG Format: JPEG...

You can start vim with a read-only option. This prevents making accidentally changes in files you don't want...