In this post, I'll walk you through the four phases of the typical journey into coding and what you...
I've pushed an update to Cucumber factory that simplifies working with FactoryGirl factories. Say you define a factory with...
SVG files are often much larger than necessary, containing comments, metadata, hidden elements etc. Optimize them with this tool.
To only stub a method call if a given argument is used, but use the default implementation for other arguments...
Using uncountable resources is not recommended as it breaks Rails' magic, e.g. when using form_for. You'll always be...
If you get this error (probably because you want to load some modules): # modprobe xt_comment FATAL: Could not load...
I couldn't successfully execute a simple iptables command and got this error on an Ubuntu server: # /sbin/iptables -I INPUT...
Add gem 'database_cleaner' to your Gemfile. Then: Cucumber & Rails 3+ # features/support/database_cleaner.rb DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:deletion) # clean once, now DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction...
When a gem author releases a new version to Rubygems, usually a tag with the version number (e.g. v1.2.0) is...
If you paste multiple lines of text into a cell, Calc's AutoCorrect will change the first character of the...
Jonas Nicklas, the author of Carrierwave and Capybara, has released Refile, a gem for handling file uploads in Rails. It...
Some insight into how browser rendering engines work. The article shows how the way you manipulate styles (and the DOM...
Sequel is an awesome ORM such as ActiveRecord. The linked article describes how easily you can implement and use materialized...
Want to find that repo you've starred some time ago again? Here's where to search for it.
When navigating back to a page that was received from a POST request, undesired side effects may happen. Therefore, modern...
Just run git show branch:file. Examples: git show HEAD~:bin/command git show origin/master:../lib/version.rb
ImageMagick takes a string with several options when cropping an image. See the command line options for how to provide...
Use it like this for inline icons: Germany They also work as block elements:
Addressing is a fertile ground for incorrect assumptions, because everyone's used to dealing with addresses and 99% of the...
In the tradition of our PostgreSQL cheat sheet for MySQL lamers, here is a cheat sheet for Jasmine when you...
Here is a Javascript function reloadUsers() that fetches a HTML snippet from the server using AJAX and replaces the current...
When testing code that uses pushState / replaceState, your browser will appear to navigate away from http://localhost:3000/specs (or wherever...
This jasmine plugin helps with testing DOM manipulation in two ways: It gives you DOM-related matchers like toBeVisible() or...
When running Selenium features with parallel_tests, some browser-server interaction might take longer than usual and the impatient Capybara...