...ago and don't remember which one it is? You can go to chrome://settings/appearance (on Chrome 61+) to see the theme's name, and click a link to open...

...it in the Chrome Web Store. If you are on an older version, or if the above no longer works, you have to check Chrome's Preferences file. Linux /home/YOUR_USER_NAME/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences...

...need to use XPath, you can have Nokogiri help you out on creating it. Simply use Nokogiri's xpath_for: Nokogiri::CSS.xpath_for('#foo') # => ["//*[@id = 'foo']"] Nokogiri::CSS.xpath_for('#foo...

...bar:nth-of-type(2)') # => ["//*[@id = 'foo']//*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' bar ') and position() = 2]"] Since XPath is more powerful you may still need to do some hardcore XPath hacking eventually...

...with modern CSS features In the past, you might have resorted to bulky JavaScript solutions or CSS hacks like transitioning between max-height: 0 and max-height: 9999px. All of...

...them were awkward and/or have several edge cases. With modern CSS, there is actually a way to do it properly: Just use a display: grid container which transitions its grid...

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If you have ... an object that defines to_hash (may well be a simple Hash instance) and pass it to a method with optional arguments and keyword arguments

...it is not set as the first optional argument. Instead, Ruby calls to_hash on the object and tries to match the result to keyword arguments. If the hash contains...

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Just found out about a great feature in Rails that seems to be around since Rails 2. Start a console with the --sandbox (or -s) parameter: rails console --sandbox

...database will be rolled back on exit. Warning Changes beyond the database (deleting files, sending emails, etc) cannot be rolled back...

Angular directives with isolate scopes have three different variable binding strategies, of which one is =. Example: # HTML # Coffeescript @app.directive 'panel', -> scope: evaluated: '=value' bound: '=twoway' link: -> scope.evaluated # = false scope.bound = 'foo...

...bound with = (value, twoway) have their value evaluated as Angular expression in the parent scope's context and have the result assigned to the corresponding scope variable (evaluated, bound). It...

...to mix different database dumps. It also requires that the mixed tables do not share relations to other database objects. Scenario You've got two database dumps: dump_a.pgdump dump_b.pgdump

...that the selected table(s) might depend upon. Therefore, there is no guarantee that a specific-table restore into a clean database will succeed. Valid restore To archive a complete...

...take the content-box for the element's shape, i.e. without margin, padding and border. shape-outside: content-box Set the margin where you want it, e.g. 10px left and...

Set the shape-margin to the same size as the margin. Note that the shape-margin can never exceed the (rectangular) margin-box of an element! --margin: 10px;

If you want to see how long your database queries actually take, you need to disable MySQL's query cache. This can be done globally by logging into a database...

SET GLOBAL query_cache_type=OFF; and restart your rails server. You can also disable the cache on a per query basis by saying SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE...

If others on a call (Skype, SIP, ...) can not hear you loud enough, your volume levels are probably too low. Also, Skype may be changing your mixer levels.

...proper recording volume Open your mixer software (run pavucontrol). Switch to input devices. If you have more than one recording device, find the correct one. Make a test call to...

...has to decide whether and how to do authorization. The usual approaches are: Using send_file with a regular controller. This is secure, but potentially slow, especially for large collections...

...This is fast (because Apache can deliver assets without going through Rails), but less secure. When going with the "unguessable URL" approach, it is possible to somewhat increase security by...

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Sometimes you may want to print files from the command line, especially when you have lots of them. You can use lp for that. To print a single example.pdf file...

...on your default printer, simply say: lp example.pdf lp accepts multiple filenames, so to print all PDF files in the current directory: lp *.pdf You can specify a printer via...

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Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way around unicode and fancy characters...

...Examples for stringex's String#to_url method: # A simple prelude "simple English".to_url => "simple-english" "it's nothing at all".to_url => "its-nothing-at-all"

Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found for the gem that ran lovely without sudo.

...are installed to /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin, which is not in sudo’s PATH. Unfortunately, you can’t change the path, since sudo for Ubuntu is compiled with the --with-secure-path option...

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See the attached link for a useful overview of modern (and classic) DOM API methods, like matches, contains, append, cssText, etc. You will still need to look up some documentation...

...e.g. on how to modify a ClassList, but it's still better than browsing interfaces and superclasses of Element on MDN without knowing what to look for. When coming from...

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The sprintf method has a reference by name format option: sprintf("% d : % f", { :foo => 1, :bar => 2 }) # => 1 : 2.000000 sprintf("%{foo}f", { :foo => 1 }) # => "1f" The format identifier % stands for...

...this example we are using %s identifier to replace strings. class Fetcher FIND_URI = 'https://someapi.com/3/search/record?query=% s&include_many=% s&language=en-US&page=1' # some public methods

Chromedriver (or selenium-webdriver?) will not reliably scroll elements into view before clicking them, and actually not click the element because of that. We've seen this happen for elements...

...a 40px button). Our assumption is that the element is considered visible (i.e. Capybara::Selenium::ChromeNode#visible? returns true for such elements) but the Selenium driver wants to actually click...

...is edited by WSYIWYG-Editor but want some length checking nevertheless, you need to strip all tags and then the special characters: def hard_sanitize(text) ActionController::Base.helpers.strip_tags(text...

...gsub(/[^[:word:]]+/, " ") end :001 > hard_sanitize("This is beautiful markup ") => "This is beautiful markup" If you allready have nokogiri on board, you can use that as well, though it has...

...when you work for clients from Europe or the US, there are two dominantish standards you should know about. Each of these has subtle differences. ISO 8601 This is adhered...

...to by most European countries. Weeks start on Monday and end on Sunday. To get the number of the weekday in Ruby as defined by ISO 8601, use Date#cwday...

Delegating methods to other objects is often helpful but the syntax of both def_delegators and def_delegator is a complete mess that makes your code hard to read.

...ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :topic def_delegators :topic, :title, :category end Here, we can say Post.new.title and actually read title from the Post's Topic object. Because of what we...

When a nginx reverse proxy complains about upstreams sending too big headers, tweaking the buffers responsibly can help to prevent this issue. Example log message: upstream sent too big header...

...while reading response header from upstream, client: 192.0.2.100, server: localhost, request: "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1", upstream: "http://198.51.100.123:80/index.html", host: "192.0.2.10:80" The cause This behaviour was caused by an application...

You have an async function that rejects: async function failingFunction() { throw new Error("Something went wrong") } When you call that function in a test, your test will fail:

}) The failure message will look like this: Unhandled promise rejection: Error: Something went wrong You can fix this by expecting the state of the returned promise:

The SQL code generated by Graticule's spherical distance computation is insufficient and can lead to NULL distances in edge cases. The reason for this is that MySQL is performing...

...several sine and cosine computations which can result in slight rounding errors -- which is usually okay. Rarely, though, for the exact center of the given circle, it is then asked...

Given those modules: module A def foo; end def bar; end end module B end When you want to call...