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Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

Google Chrome saves your profile data in ~/.config/google-chrome. To transfer the profile to for example a system you have setup...

jeff.dallien.net

When you use heredoc, string interpolation is enabled by default: x = "Universe" <<-MESSAGE Hello #{x} MESSAGE # => "Hello Universe"

makandra dev

Sometimes it seems a favicon does not work because your browser displays an old version or (in case of local...

web.archive.org

TL;DR: You should generally use #size to count associated records. size Counts already loaded elements If the association is...

Here is a hacky way to load dumps directly from the source server, without fully copying them over and extracting...

mysqlperformanceblog.com

When MySQL refuses to use your index, there's a number of things that you may be doing wrong. One...

Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...

makandra dev
thestartuptoolkit.com

Good collection of crash-course articles about founding a start up, getting funded, validating ideas, etc.

tl;dr: Do not use merge! for session hashes. Use update instead. Outline Let's assume you're modifying the...

Safari & Chrome Use $x() in your console: $x('//span') # selects all span elements Firefox There's an add-on.

JavaScript has no built-in functions to compare two objects or arrays for equality of their contained values.

Watch out when saying something like 1.year in Rails. The result is not a Fixnum and can cause unexpected errors...

makandra dev

You might get the following error: Unable to initialize. Make sure the daemon is running. Error: Process /usr/lib/sflphone/sflphoned exited with...

webmonkey.com

Mozilla has announced that, starting with Firefox 22, the popular open source web browser will begin blocking third-party cookies...

In Ruby 1.9, instance_eval calls the block the with receiver as the first argument: In Ruby 1.8, receiver.instance_eval...

github.com

MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...

apidock.com

Ruby 1.9 changed the default behavior of Module.const_defined? from what it was in Ruby 1.8 -- this can be especially...

If you open a pop-up window [1] in your Selenium tests and you want to close it, you can...

makandracards.com

See attached link for a way to extract the conditions of a named scope in Rails 2.3.

gist.github.com

Rails 2.3.16+ on Ruby 1.9 causes warnings like this: .../gems/activesupport-2.3.17/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb:22: warning: regexp match /.../n against to UTF-8 string...

perl.plover.com

So you have a method returning a regular expression but one case that should not yield a matching Regexp object...

If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...