Detect if a gem has been activated A gem is activated if it is either in the current bundle (Gemfile.lock...
To get your F12 key back for other shortcuts, stop Tilda: killall tilda To prevent Tilda from starting on boot...
We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and...
This error can be caused by the mysql2 gem under mysterious circumstances. You need to remove it with gem uninstall...
Say you have an RGBA color that you need as a non-transparent color because of reasons. Basically, this is...
Good article about what "gamma correction" means for color processing, and what "sRGB" actually means. You probably do not need...
Rails 5 migration classes look like this now: class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] Mind the [5.0] at the end.
These are Chrome plugins that proved useful at makandra. Each is the best-in-class. Dimensions Auto-measure distances by...
When you are calling Bundler from your shell scripts, you might find it useful that a failed bundle call returns...
ActiveSupport::Notifications provides an instrumentation API for Ruby. It is used throughout rails to publish instrumentation events that include information...
A few releases back, Chrome started using a Material Design UI on desktop. If you don't like it (on...
Similar to our snippet that runs all Cucumber features matching a given string, the following will run all modified or...
You know those helper methods that just render some HTML but look weird because of content_tags all over the...
In this article, we’ll look at what side effects are, why they are problematic despite being necessary, and how...
We have a new gem Minidusen which extracts Dusen's query parsing and LIKE query functionality. Minidusen can no longer...
If you were using Dusen for its query parsing and LIKE queries, we recommend to migrate to Minidusen, which extracts...
Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation...
There is no build in functionally in jQuery and Prototype to extract params from a url. You can use this...
Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...
Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages...
ClockPicker is a JavaScript and Bootstrap implementation of an Android-style time picker which looks and feels great. Unfortunately, it...
You want Spring for super-fast binstubs like bin/rails or bin/rspec which avoid Rails boot time. You want parallel_tests...
A new open source WYSIWYG editor that promises superior fidelity and customizability. This might be a future alternative to Redaktor...
Things to check first Do you deliver fonts in a format that the target IE version understands? Did you double...