In general, the tracker should always be the definitive source of truth of what needs to be done as part...

Google Chrome has a subtle rendering bug that hits me once in a while. It usually occurs in sliders with...

Having a unique selector for an element is useful to later select it from JavaScript or to update a fragment...

Haml lets you prefix a group of attributes by wrapping them in a hash. This is only possible with the...

As a web developer, you know Google Analytics (GA). Probably you've dropped the GA snippet into more than one...

Rails defines a #truncate helper as well as a method String#truncate. = truncate("my string", length: 5) = "my string".truncate...

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litmus.com

The 90s are calling: they want their tables back. Unfortunately, you need them all for laying out your HTML emails...

stackoverflow.com

Ruby has this handy block shortcut map(&:to_i) for map { |x| x.to_i }. However, it is limited to argument...

guides.rubyonrails.org

TL;DR Append your locale keys with _html to have them marked as html_safe and translate them with = t...

When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a...

When your JavaScript bundle is so massive that you cannot load it all up front, I would recommend to load...

You know that you can use jQuery's text() to get an element's contents without any tags.

For outputting a given String in HTML, you mostly want to replace line breaks with or tags.

Lets say we have a user with a contract whereas contract is a mounted carrierwave file. Now we want to...

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When you need test images, instead of using services like lorempixel or placehold.it you may generate test images yourself.

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Rails offers a way to prepend (or append) view paths for the current request. This way, you can make the...

When you have string contents (e.g. a generated binary stream, or data from a remote source) that you want to...

Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...

If you want to make a screenshot of a website that works well in print or on a high-DPI...

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When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use...

TL;DR Use user.update!(remove_avatar: true) to delete attachments outside of forms. This will have the same behavior as...

This is painful. Consider using Microsoft Office or switching careers. If you need to write < 20 letters consider doing it...

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When making requests using curl, no cookies are sent or stored by default. However, you can tell curl to re...

You should avoid using application models in your migrations. But how else could you create records in a migration?