When you create e.g. a sidebar box that contains headlines and paragraphs, the final paragraph's margin in that box...

When you need to add a event listener to hundreds of elements, this might slow down the browser. An alternative...

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You may omit the /path/to/link_name to have a link with the same filename appear in the current directory

When deploying Rails applications you might have noticed that JS and CSS are not cached by all browsers.

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With this plugin, you can create a scalable tooltip by just using a single background image for the tooltip body...

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Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework. Please note: "Permission to...

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The point is, evented I/O is not magic scalability pixie dust, and like anything, there is a tradeoff.

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A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use...

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Boolean attributes can now be set by appending "which", "that" or "who" at the end: Given there is a movie...

When you roll custom URLs with hacks like routing-filter, you can put a spec like this into spec/routing/routing_spec.rb:

When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...

Spreewald has steps that let you test that e-mails have been sent, using arbitrary conditions in any combination.

Don't use should validate_format_of(...) because that matcher works in weird ways. Use the allow_value matcher instead...

Use this if you want to show or hide part of a form if certain options are selected or boxes...

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rjb is a bridge software. It connects Ruby and Java.

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Keyboard layout reverting to US on (every) reboot Cause: I found the same problem, but only on my wife...

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the best damn presentation software a developer could ever love

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You can write regular expressions some different ways, e.g. /regex/ and %r{regex}. For examples, look here. Remember that it...

popthis is awesome when used with inaction_mailer. Setup inaction_mailer Install the gem: sudo gem install popthis

The Git stash does not work like a one-slot clipboard and you might shoot yourself in the foot if...

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To pause and send a task to the background ctrl+z to reactivate the task fg to run task in...

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The following example is from the Cucumber wiki: Given a blog post named "Random" with Markdown body """ Some Title, Eh...

Use the attached initializer to do stuff like this str = "abc" str.imbue(:foo => 'foo value', :bar => 'bar value')

So you screwed up and copied Paperclip secrets from one project to another. Here is a semi-automatic, painful way...