stackoverflow.com

When you use ab to do some performance benchmarking, you might run into output like this: Complete requests: 200

Find out in this short guide, how to horizontally center a absolute positioned container with CSS. Note: We have a...

blog.codeclimate.com

Rails’ reputation as a relatively secure Web framework is well deserved. Out-of-the-box, there is protection against many...

makandra dev
nt.ntnu.no

yaml4r is a juxtaposition of yaml documents and their Ruby couterpart. Thus, it does a great job as YAML-doc...

Sometimes you might want to limit the number of associated records in a has_many association, but cannot add a...

view_context.helper_method('args') Rails 2 ApplicationController.helpers.helper_method('args') Also see How to use helper methods inside a model...

The User-Agent HTTP header identifies the client and is sent by "regular" browsers, search engine crawlers, or other web...

Spreewald's patiently repeats the given block again and again until it either passes or times out.

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Ever wondered about the difference between def and define_method? Turns out there are three implicit contexts in Ruby. def...

The way Rational#to_s works on Ruby has changed from Ruby 1.9 on. Here is how to get the...

When a controller action redirects to an external URL (like http://somehost.com/some/path) you will find that this is hard...

Unfortunately, Capybara does not offer a switch to disable cookies in your test browser. However, you can work around that...

To set a cookie in your test browser for cucumber tests, you need to know which driver you are using...

The following code doesn't work like expected: page.find(css_selector).find(other_css_selector) The second .find will search...

opensoul.org

Great presentation about writing Javascript like you write everything else: Well-structured and tested. JavaScript is no longer a toy...

singlepageappbook.com

Great look at the tradeoffs between progressive enhancement with jQuery or similiar, vs. client-side views.

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tenderlovemaking.com

In Ruby, the meaning of protected and private is different from other languages like Java. (They don't hide methods...

stackoverflow.com

Access the Method object Dead simple: Get the method object and ask for its owner: "foo".method(:upcase) # => #

Establishing a TCP connection to a SSL secured remote service is not possible using telnet or nc. Though, you can...

chartjs.org

Chart.js seems to be a good alternative to Google's Chart API and other commercial chart drawing libraries.

Rails flashes (FlashHash) track a list of used keys, which is not respected when comparing flash hashes.

For example if you use rvm and get this message: ERROR: Loading command: install (LoadError) no such file to load...

cssmatic.com

CSSmatic lets you play around with four rather complex CSS stylings and gives you CSS or SASS code to use...

browserhacks.com

The linked site lists a wealth of CSS hacks that let you apply styles to just that one browser. You...