If you are fine with the default console diff most of the time but only sometimes want to use an...

SVG is an acronym for "scalable vector graphics". SVGs should be used whenever an image can be described with vector...

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AWstats is build to regularly run on webservers. If you want it to build a report once, here is the...

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We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and...

Same requests are recorded only once in vcr. Replaying a test fails, if you trigger the same request multiple times...

You know those helper methods that just render some HTML but look weird because of content_tags all over the...

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We have a new gem Minidusen which extracts Dusen's query parsing and LIKE query functionality. Minidusen can no longer...

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ohshitgit.com

Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation...

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github.com

Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...

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Promises are the new way™ to express "Do this, and once you're done, do that". In contrast to callbacks...

Angular directives with isolate scopes have three different variable binding strategies, of which one is =. Example: # HTML # Coffeescript @app.directive 'panel...

Isolate scopes offer three kinds of variable binding. One of them is &, allowing to bind a property of the isolate...

When you're nesting setTimeout(f, 0) calls, your browser will silently increase the delay to 5 milliseconds after the...

We're using Middleman for some static sites like our blog. Despite being very similar to Rails, Middleman does not...

Resources Rails Guide: Internationalization API Guide to localizing a Rails application Locale-aware helpers in ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper

Here is a symbol of an eight note: ♪ Its two-byte hex representation is 0x266A. This card describes how to...

When building a web application, one is tempted to claim it "done" too early. Make sure you check this list...

So you downloaded a theme for Chrome a while ago and don't remember which one it is?

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...The and tags both come with some non-default behavior that you know from other tags.

The default Google Analytics might not work as expected with your Unpoly app. This is because your app only has...

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css-tricks.com

All new browsers support the new object-fit CSS property. It allows to specify how an element behaves within its...

As you may know, HAML expands data attributes that are given as a hash: %div{ data: { count: 3 } }

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IE has a "Compatibility Mode" for old browsers. You can keep IE from offering it (and fix some other things...

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Have you ever mistaken one Rails environment for another? The attached helper will help you to never do it again...