With "attaching an event handler once" you possibly mean one of these two things: Register a function for an event...
Note This card does not reflect the current state of lazy loading technologies. The native lazy attribute could be used...
Lead by a discussion of this issue, I built in a middleware which answers those requests with [400] bad request...
Sometimes you just want to have a small web server that serves files to test something. Serve the current directory...
When you're developing a gem, never list the same dependency as both runtime and development dependency in your .gemspec...
While you can use Apache as a reverse proxy, it tries to be too smart. Try nginx instead, it's...
There are many solutions, but a very concise one is this: hash.merge!(hash) do |key, old_value, new_value|
A list of common computer I/O actions and how long they take. Visual comparison chart: http://i.imgur.com/k0t1e.png
git rebase -i -> mark your commit with edit git reset HEAD~ (remove the marked commit, but keep its...
One useful postgres command I stumbled upon recently was \x. It gives you an expanded display which allows you to...
While you usually do not need a Content-Type on GET request (which have a blank body), an external API...
A great walkthrough through several design iteration of the same landing page.
Sometimes you want to know exactly how many objects exist within your running Ruby process. Here is how: stats = {} ObjectSpace.each...
Sending a testmail from a server with a configured exim is easy as pie. From your usershell: tell exim that...
Ruby has a set of methods to convert an object to another representation. Most of them come in explicit and...
When you make a simple TCP connection to a remote server (like telnet), your client won't normally notice when...
Installing SSL certificates usually implies additionally using intermediate certificates. If one of them is missing, some SSL client implementations might...
You want to test your 1GE or 10GE internet uplink? We needed to ensure we have full 10GE to the...
When dealing with AR scopes, you can remove conditions, order, etc by using the unscope method. It is available on...
Redactor is yet another WYSIWYG editor. It definitely has its weak points, but I want to point out that it...
PostgreSQL's array data type is pretty useful, but manipulating values of arrays can be awkward because of its syntax...
Our applications not only need to be functional, they need to be fast. But, to quote Donald Knuth, premature optimization...
Some browsers define window.event, which will return a copy of the "current" event. However, this is not defined by the...
The asset pipeline is one of Rails' two mechanisms how stylesheets, javascripts and images from your /assets folder are processed...