Fixtures in Rails allow you to quickly and easily populate a database with sample data. They are great when testing your app and you need to test against a condition that will rely on a certain preexisting data point. Fixtures are located in your RAILS_R...

To use the jQuery javascript framework in a Rails application, that also uses the Prototype framework for the same application, you'll need to reassign the $() function for jQuery to another variable. This is very simple to do. Just make sure to include t...

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -- Phil Karlton Typically, we have three main branches at any given time in a project lifecycle. master, development and staging. Master is production ready code, d...

Remove cell padding on a table you add the cellspacing attribute and set it to "0". Is there a better way to do this with straight up CSS? Nothing seems to work... <table id='my-favorite-table' cellspacing="0" > ...

https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js That is the link to the jQuery source hosted by Google on their CDN. It's probably already cached on client machines so it should be as fast as is possible! You can read more/use other Java...