Ruby 1.9.2 is very slow when loading files, especially starting Rails servers or running specs takes forever.
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LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...
Note that this seems to affect only recent Rails 2 versions. You will not encounter this until you are writing...
If you're suffering from a huge de.yml or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your...
If you upgrade to the mysql2 gem, you will run into the problem that the server's database.yml (which is...
Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...
Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...
xip.io is a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address. Say your LAN IP address is...
TagCanvas is a Javascript class which will draw and animate a HTML5 canvas based tag cloud.
If you are using VNC to run Selenium tests, it may be hard to see what's going on since...
Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. The linked page...
I had trouble serving an MP4 video to my iPad. Although the video complied with all the specs (H.264 codec...
Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications...
You will find this useful when creating responsive designs that work well on small screens. The attached Javascript gives a...
Note: You might also want to check out BoxCryptor which does pretty much the same, and is supported across many...
MySQL version 5.1 comes with an alternative, faster InnoDB implementation (called "InnoDB Plugin"). Switching is easy: Stop your mysqld with...
When requests arrive at the application servers simultaneously, weird things can happen. Sometimes, this can also happen if a user...
Say you want to vertically align a div box inside a div container. This is how you do it:
Today, this line made me trouble. Can you spot the mistake? match 'sitemap.xml' => 'feeds#sitemap', :constraints => { :format => 'xml' }, :as => 'sitemap...
Removing duplication from the code is a seemingly easy task. In many cases it is pretty straight-forward – you look...
i686 means 32-bit.
It's not logical, so don't be too hard on yourself. You need to give it a height and...
When you want to test how an web-application reacts in a specific resolution, you can set up a specific...