devdocs.io

DevDocs combines multiple API documentations in a fast, organized, and searchable interface. Pretty awesome project. You can select multiple docs...

Due to network or hardware failures, it can happen that one of your cronjobs will not run at the time...

When you have an Angular directive that transcludes content, you might want to do something in case there is no...

dev.mysql.com

Directly from the MySql docs: There are three likely causes for this error message. Usually it indicates network connectivity trouble...

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feedjira.com

Great gem to consume RSS feeds. I was missing some features on Ruby's RSS::Parser that I found in...

You know each_with_index from arrays: ['hello', 'universe'].each_with_index do |value, index| puts "#{index}: #{value}" end

TL;DR In blueprints, always wrap associations in blocks. # Broken Task.blueprint(:vacation) do project Project.make(:vacation) hours 8 accounting_method...

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stackoverflow.com

So you erased a whole day's work? There is hope! The linked article tells how to recover from an...

In Cucumber, scenario outlines help avoiding tests that are basically the same, except for a few variables (such as different...

So you have placed a breakpoint somewhere and now want to dig around, but not even inspecting variables is working...

Open a MySQL root shell and use this command: PURGE BINARY LOGS BEFORE DATE(NOW() - INTERVAL 3 DAY) + INTERVAL 0...

blog.arkency.com

Amazing guide how to divide a ball of Javascript spaghetti distinct separate layers (model, view, controller, backend adapter).

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github.com

Parses URLs of social networks to extract IDs or screen names. It does not get confused by child routes: you...

stackoverflow.com

Previously the assets group existed to avoid unintended compilation-on-demand in production. As Rails 4 doesn't behave like...

While RSpec 1 and 2 decided that specs inside spec/model are model specs, and those inside spec/features are feature specs...

Run this command to list the authors of the most recent commit of each branch: git for-each-ref --format...

When you don't only have a favicon.ico in your project but also PNGs of different sizes and backgrounds, you...

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Spreewald 1.1.0 drops the be_true and be_false matchers in order to be RSpec 3 and Ruby 2 compatible...

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github.com

Provides an easy way to retrieve Google Page Rank, Alexa Rank, backlink counts, and index counts.

When making cross-domain AJAX requests with jQuery (using CORS or xdomain or similar), you will run into issues with...

Safari on iOS accepts an apple-touch-icon favicon that is used for stuff like desktop bookmarks. Always define a...

teohm.com

The attached post shows some alternative ways to define Strings in Ruby using the percent notation. This can be useful...

This actually works: class Klass def initialize `hi world` end def `(message) puts "Called with backticks: #{message}" end end

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github.com

The debugger gem does not seem to be properly working on Ruby 2. Use byebug instead! Byebug is a simple...