The very useful andand gem does not play very nice with Ruby's SimpleDelegator (or vice versa). This following will...
A technique to vastly reduce the number of join model records that need to be stored in the database.
This is super stupid: In the Thunar file manager, select the file Go to File / Properties / Open With (WTF!)
Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I...
Setup the mirror by following the steps described here. If you want to enable OS upgrades using do-release-upgrade...
While you can set your own font in your terminal or other tools, it will not change the default "Monospace...
When you have two models in a has_many, has_one or belongs_to association, the :inverse_of option in...
Capybara gives you two different methods for executing Javascript: page.evaluate_script("$('input').focus()") page.execute_script("$('input').focus()")
JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8 (Chrome, Node) are specifically designed for the fast execution of large JavaScript applications...
Installation differs slightly from older versions, please check the README.
Ever wanted to preview a pattern from Subtle Patterns on your site without the hassle of swapping out images and...
gleeBox is an experimental project that takes a keyboard-centric approach to navigating the web. It provides alternatives to actions...
Icon fonts like Font Awesome are infinitely scalable, look great on high-DPI displays and will give your app a...
You can use scheme-less URLs (or protocol-relative URLs) to have browsers use the current protocol (HTTP or HTTPS...
Having your site run on SSL is worthless when you include content over an unsafe connection (HTTP).
Under certain (unknown) circumstances, Rails will give localized files an invalid content-type in the Response header. For me, after...
Generally, Selenium tests use the browser to interact with the page. If it's unavailable, a timeout error is...
If you're using the Capybara webdriver, steps sometimes fail because the browser hasn't finished loading the next page...
Browser rendering engines are very slow at rendering large box shadows. I had a situation where a complex layout with...
While git branch will show you all branches and highlight the current one with an asterisk, it can be too...
In theory you can take any scope and extend it with additional joins or conditions. We call this chaining scopes...
ActiveModel::Errors is used to handle validation errors on Rails objects. If you inspect an instance, it feels like a...
Around will not happen until after a feature's Background has been processed. Use Before and After to avoid that...
Hashrocket Lunch n' Learn #1 with Avdi Grimm: Making Little Classes out of Big Ones A look at the pros...