github.com

Using this gem, whenever a Capybara test in Cucumber, Rspec or Minitest fails, the HTML for the failed page and...

For me guard recently took a very long to start (as in "minutes"), because I had lots of images in...

As you know, assignable_values does not invalidate a record even when an attribute value becomes unassignable. See this example...

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

regular-expressions.info

A little-known feature of modern Regexp engines that help when optimizing a pattern that will be matched against long...

When you tell rbenv to install a Ruby it does not know about, you will get an error message.

RSpec 3.0 deprecates the :should way of writing specs for expecting things to happen. However, if you have tests you...

When you have a string containing umlauts which don't behave as expected (are not matched with a regexp, can...

Warnings like those below may originate from rspec or shoulda-matchers or other gems that have not updated yet to...

github.com

jQuery plugin that makes it easy to dynamically add and remove records when using ActiveRecord's nested attributes.

ActiveRecord caches results of SQL queries. If you want to discard the cached results for one model, you can call...

SimpleForm is a great approach to simplifying your forms, and it comes with lots of well-defined input types. However...

makandra dev
mupdf.com

MuPDF is a PDF reader that renders very quickly, yet still correctly. It supports PDF 1.7 and all the fancy...

So you want your Ruby script to install missing gems instead of dying? Take this method: def installing_missing_gems...

When your Rails controller action responds with only a simple text, render text: 'Hello' may not be what you want...

I use this to simulate the (non-existing) :last-letter CSS pseudoclass, e. g. to insert a tombstone at the...

Since version 34, Chromium/Chrome ignores the autocomplete="off" attribute on forms or input fields. Recent versions of other browser do...

The error unexpected 'x' after 'DESCENDANT_SELECTOR' (Nokogiri::CSS::SyntaxError) (where x may be basically any character) occurs when the...

If you parse this Yaml ... yes: 'Totally' no: 'Nope' ... you get this Ruby hash: { true: 'Totally', false: 'Nope' }

You are probably using Ruby 1.8.7 with a too recent versions of Rubygems. Downgrade your Rubygems to the latest version...

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tldp.org

There are 3 built-in file descriptors: stdin, stdout and stderr (std=standard). (You can define your own, see the...

guides.rubyonrails.org

config.action_controller.action_on_unpermitted_parameters enables logging or raising an exception if parameters that are not explicitly permitted are...

github.com

quiet_assets helps with disabling asset pipeline log messages in the development log. When the gem is added, asset pipeline...

When using @media CSS queries, Internet Explorer 8 and below will fail to respect them. Though there are several options...