engineyard.com

Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.

In Thunderbird, you can set custom font faces and sizes for reading plain-text e-mails. However, Thunderbird sometimes "randomly...

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

Let's say you have two screens: Show a given project Show a report for all projects Ideally you want...

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PDFKit converts a web page to a PDF document. It uses a Webkit engine under the hood...

When using jQueryUI's Sortable plugin (either directly or via Angular's ui.sortable), you might struggle testing your nice drag...

Microsoft Exchange service administrators can enable Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is a rather accessible XML API for interacting with...

In Cucumber, scenario outlines help avoiding tests that are basically the same, except for a few variables (such as different...

When you don't only have a favicon.ico in your project but also PNGs of different sizes and backgrounds, you...

Safari on iOS accepts an apple-touch-icon favicon that is used for stuff like desktop bookmarks. Always define a...

makandra dev
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The debugger gem does not seem to be properly working on Ruby 2. Use byebug instead! Byebug is a simple...

If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with...

In whenever you can schedule Ruby code directly like so: every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do runner "MyModel.task_to...

Aruba is an extension to Cucumber that helps integration-testing command line tools. When your tests involve a Rails test...

blog.salsify.com

An all-in-approach to fix the problem of pending AJAX requests dying in the browser when the server ends...

github.com

Using this gem, whenever a Capybara test in Cucumber, Rspec or Minitest fails, the HTML for the failed page and...

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

RSpec 3.0 deprecates the :should way of writing specs for expecting things to happen. However, if you have tests you...

Sometimes you're getting an ActiveSupport deprecation warning that you cannot or don't want to fix. In these cases...

Warnings like those below may originate from rspec or shoulda-matchers or other gems that have not updated yet to...

guides.rubyonrails.org

config.action_controller.action_on_unpermitted_parameters enables logging or raising an exception if parameters that are not explicitly permitted are...

makandra dev

Spring is a Rails application preloader. When debugging e.g. the rails gem, you'll be wondering why your raise, puts...

Programatically invoke Rails generators Require the generator, instantiate it and invoke it (because generators are Thor::Groups, you need...

Use the following command to test if a server (in this example: makandra.com on port 443) uses Perfect Forward Secrecy...