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How to use capybara to test any web app PHP, Java, .Net, whatever

Asset pipeline - how is your CSS and JS included in a Rails app?

Rails is omakase, Rails! (Rails prime) is the combo plate, I guess.

A rising tide lifts all boats, and we'd like to help improve payment experiences for consumers everywhere, whether or not they use Stripe. Today, we're releasing jQuery.payment, a general purpose library for building credit card forms, validating input, and formatting numbers. This library is behind a lot of the functionality in Checkout.

When it comes to web development, Sinatra is amazingly flexible. Unlike Rails, it isn't opinionated in the slightest and basically lets you make all the design decisions.

"a list of the most useful tutorials as a complete Ruby n00b to aid others who may be just getting started"

"Ruby is a language with a set of powerful features - the most powerful arguably being Blocks, Procs, and Lambdas. In short, these features allow you to pass code to a method and execute that code at a later time. Despite regularly using these features, many developers don't fully understand the subtle differences between them."

"State Machine comes to the rescue when models in your application need statuses and events. There is a #state_machine gem for #ruby. I recommend you to spend some time studying basics before you start using it"

"For every other project, the requirement of using SSL/HTTPS crops up. And I'm sure, just like me, you were annoyed that there doesn't seem to be a simple way to test your SSL stuff in your local development environment. Well: Not any more. Here's how you set up your local Rails environment so that you can use SSL in development if you want or need to."

How to combine PostgreSQL and Sublime Text for a simple psql GUI-ish

"This article gives you a structured and insightful road map on how you should learn JavaScript properly and thoroughly. You do want to learn JavaScript; it is why you are here, and you have made a wise decision, for if you want to develop modern websites and web applications (including an internet startup), you need to know JavaScript. And while there are more than enough online resources to teach you JavaScript, finding the most efficient and beneficial method to learn the "language of the web" is not easy and could be frustrating. This course outline is as valuable as any college course (or a few courses combined), because if you complete it, you will have learned enough to develop modern web applications, and consequently you will have become a highly sought-after programmer-JavaScript developers are in high demand today."