If you need the initial user which you used to login to your Linux system or the time when you...

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Rack has a limit for how many form parameters it will parse. This limit is 65536 by default.

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RSpec's be_false behaves unexpectedly: nil.should be_false # passes, as the expectation returns true If you want to check...

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Copy and paste at will, they're free! German quotation marks: „ “ (Ubuntu-Hotkey: AltGr+v and AltGr+b) English quotation...

Sometimes you need to remove high Unicode characters from a string, so all characters have a code point between 0...

Take care when using rescue_from to rescue multiple errors. The following will not work, because later rescue_from statements...

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In a nutshell: Capybara's find will not work properly on nodes from a list. Don't find on elements...

CSS is a lot easier to write and read than clumsy XPath expressions. So when you need to use XPath...

LibreOffice Impress, Writer, etc. doesn't embed most fonts into the PDFs it generates. This means if you share a...

Note that this seems to affect only recent Rails 2 versions. You will not encounter this until you are writing...

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The Rails community has been abuzz with object-oriented programming, SOLID principles, laws, design patterns, and other principles, practices, and...

Recent rails security updates have shown that people make incorrect assumptions about the possible contents of the params hash.

ActiveSupport >= 3 has Date.parse('2011-02-10').beginning_of_quarter #=> 2011-01-01 Date.parse('2011-02-10').end_of_quarter...

If you're suffering from a huge de.yml or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your...

If you upgrade to the mysql2 gem, you will run into the problem that the server's database.yml (which is...

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Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...

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Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...

If you have a file that looks like a precompilation fingerprint, the Rails asset pipeline will not see it. So...

When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app: app/assets/fonts app/assets/images...

blog.httpwatch.com

Myth #5 (Each HTTPS Site Needs its Own Public IP Address) is actually still true, but the rest of the...

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deploy-to-production now calls Capistrano with bundle exec since we started to bundle Capistrano in all projects.

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Some progress was made by browsers on implementing CSS filters like blur, greyscale or some other effects. You might already...

If you are using VNC to run Selenium tests, it may be hard to see what's going on since...