TLDR: In tests you need to clean out the database before each example. Use :transaction where possible. Use :deletion for...
When you have a Pull Request on GitHub that includes commits from another Pull Request, you will still see them...
If you ever wondered why a constant wasn't defined or wasn't available where you expected it to be...
jquery-timing is a very useful jquery plugin that helps to remove lots of nested anonymous functions. It's API...
As attachments to this card you will find a Cucumber feature and supplementing step definition that you can use to...
I was unsatisfied with the existing memory status applets for the Xfce panel, so I wrote a little shell script...
The bash offers control over the behavior of autocompletion. The most primitive example is this (just run it in your...
The basic idea is pretty simple: an element's height is accessible via the offsetHeight property, its drawn height via...
This works in all relevant browsers: document.activeElement You can use this in your Selenium steps, for example, to assert that...
When searching for text in a MySQL table, you have two choices: The LIKE operator FULLTEXT indexes (which currently only...
Basic error pages To add a few basic styles to the default error pages in Rails, just edit the default...
If - for whatever reason - you have to render stylesheets dynamically, the following snippet might be of help. It emulates what...
Git commits should be very deliberate, and only contain changes that you really want to be in there. In order...
Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.
Debugging .htaccess is hell, and RewriteRules in particular if they are not working as expected. But fear not! RewriteLog will...
If some AJAX functionality does not work, but you see Firefox making an OPTIONS request, the reasons is most likely...
You know that you can force absolute URLs throughout a response. Now you want to modify URLs similarly, but only...
Capybara uses www.example.com as the default hostname when making requests. If your application does something specific on certain hostnames and...
Hopefully you are using Psych for everything, but if you have legacy Syck YAML files lying around you could be...
ActiveRecord has a feature called counter caching where the containing record in a has_many relationship caches the...
For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...
Selenium cannot reliably control a browser when its window is not in focus, or when you accidentally interact with the...
When you want to copy/move from a shared folder (on Windows guests, for example) and it fails with absurd error...
If you can now longer hear or record sounds after upgrading Ubuntu, you probably need to re-tell Ubuntu which...