Click to Edit with AngularJS
A look at how Angular helps this common interface pattern remarkably straightforward to build.
Asset Pipeline Tips
Techniques we use at Icelab to get the most from Rails asset pipeline
Wrapping Rack Middleware to Exclude Certain URLs (For Rails Streaming Responses)
Use your middleware when it’s handy, exclude it when it’s not.
Money, Stress and The Cloud
Or: How to Save Your Relationship with Rails Streaming Responses on Heroku.
Export Trajectory Stories to CSV
You can have your stories and spreadsheet them too.
Loading Typekit asynchronously with yepnope.js
The standard Typekit embed can literally kill your website. Use a script loader like yepnope.js (or if you’re using Modernizr already,
Modernizr.loadto load it asynchronously instead.Render Single-Line Markdown Text with Redcarpet
For when you want Markdown without the block-level elements.
Customising ActiveRecord’s attribute formatting on inspect
Make your Rails console a tidier place.
New Relic, Heroku and Rails Streaming Responses
You can make them all work together.
Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Un-Designing the App
On moving to Heroku, choosing Objective-C libraries, and reducing the app’s UI surface area.
Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Finishing the API
A look into building an authenticated API that integrates with 3rd-party OAuth providers, along with some general tips for building RESTful JSON APIs with Rails.
Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Getting to Work
An update at the end of week #1.
Decaf Sucks Launch Countdown: Starting Again, Again
By the 5th of September, we will release Decaf Sucks for iPhone.
Run Your Own Piece of Heroku with Foreman
Simplify your web app’s background task management.
Useful Heroku-Friendly Rewrites with rack-rewrite
When you cannot configure your webserver, here’s a Rack middleware to preserve your Google-juice.
Embrace the Metaclass and Extend Your ActiveModels
Modifying the attributes and behaviour of your ActiveRecord or Mongoid models at runtime.
Introducing TumblrThemr
A nifty tool for making Tumblr theme development a little less head-desky.
FactoryGirl and has_many associations
When your
has_manyassociation requires at least one item, don’t despair.Taking the pain out of save_and_open_page
A small tip for reducing the friction in your Rails integration tests.
Invisible cursors in Google Chrome with CSS
Getting your cursor to disappear in Google Chrome is a little more troublesome than one might expect.
