Note: Modern Rails has two build pipelines, the asset pipeline (or "Sprockets") and Webpacker. The principles below apply for both...
This article describes how to reset MySQL's or MariaDB's root password on your workstation. It's meant for...
Every now and then, Java is subject to security issues where code can break out of Java's sandbox and...
If you want to install rabbitmq plugins on Ubuntu 12.04 you can do this with: /usr/lib/rabbitmq/lib/rabbitmq_server-2.7.1/sbin/rabbitmq-plugins This binary is not...
has_defaults is now a gem, no longer a plugin. The plugin version no longer exists. Note that plugins are...
MySQL version 5.1 comes with an alternative, faster InnoDB implementation (called "InnoDB Plugin"). Switching is easy: Stop your mysqld with...
zClip is a lightweight jQuery "copy to clipboard" plugin built using the popular Zero Clipboard library. This plugin uses an...
This is a demo of the "Tabby" Javascript jQuery plugin to use tabs in regular textareas to make them suitable...
turn.js is a plugin for jQuery that adds a beautiful transition similar to real pages in a book or magazine...
When internationalizing your Rails app, you'll be replacing strings like 'Please enter your name' with t('.name_prompt'). You...
I still see people promoting various gems and plugins to handle miscellaneous configuration elements for your application. One little known...
By default, Rails views escape HTML in any strings you insert. If you want to insert HTML verbatim, you need...
I believe that when WEBrick has trouble bringing up your Rails application, the WEBrick component that is supposed to print...
Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in...
I've recently encountered a weird problem with specs making lots of SOLR queries using the acts_as_solr plugin...
The speed searching for makandra notes in Firefox can be improved by following these steps: Download the Firefox-Add-on...
jQuery plugin to register callback functions to keyboard shortkuts. Keyboard events in vanilla Javascripts are super-painful to work with...
Plugins (and gems) are typically tested using a complete sample rails application that lives in the spec folder of the...
Terminus is a Capybara driver where most of the driver functions are implemented in client-side JavaScript. It lets you...
The CSS Emoticons plugin is a simple jQuery plugin (and stylesheet) that allows you to turn any text emoticons on...
Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis (@brianreavis) to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on...
A jQuery plugin that sets a div or span to show a countdown to a given time
Rails 3, 4, 5, 6 config/application.rb config/environment.rb before the initialize! call (we don't usually edit this file)
This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\ Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin...