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Advice for address forms that work with address structures from multiple countries.
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It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside...
If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...
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Since we are migrating from our homegrown mixins.sass and helpers.sass to Compass, here is a list of all the mixins...
The asset pipeline (which is actually backed by sprockets) has a nice feature where templates ending in .jst are compiled...
When two elements with display: inline-block are sitting next to each other, whitespace between becomes a space character.
A list of FontAwesome icons in the form of copyable Unicode characters or HTML entities. You might prefer to use...
In order to keep the controllers directory tidy, we recently started to namespace controllers. With the :controller option you can...
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CSS3 comes with new unit rem. It works like em but it is always relative to the element instead of...
I had some problems with Git and the file spec/fixtures/ČeskýÁČĎÉĚÍŇÓŘŠŤÚŮÝŽáčďéěíňóřšťúůýž. After pulling the latest commits, it would show that...