This is a quick tip for that situation where you need to center an html element whose width isn't fixed because it's determined by its content. For example an unordered list. This is the kind of problem that is easy to solve when you know the element's width beforehand. You…
It was long due. The original website was created in 2009 and built using Rails 2.3.4. At the time it was the latest release of Rails, but a lot has happened since then and our website needed to catch up with times. I still remember working with Rails 1.2…
There are many documented reasons for getting an InvalidAuthenticityToken exception in a Ruby on Rails application. However, if you arrived at this page after searching for IE9 or Internet Explorer 9 and InvalidAuthenticityToken, chances are it's only happening to you in IE9 and the following solution will save you a lot of headaches.
…There are some libraries —including some proprietary ones— that offer panning functionality. Rolling out your own panning functionality to oversized images on your webpages is actually a fairly simple task and can be achieved by using unobstrusive javascript and CSS without the need of any library. Have I said it's…
If you are dealing with videos in your application as opposed to use some online service such as brightcove you are probably familiar with ffmpeg. Have you ever had to use it to obtain meta data about video files in your Ruby/Rails application?
I have done some search online…
When you deploy a Rails application using Capistrano the application runs in production mode by default and you don't normally have to worry about it. But what happens when you are taking advantage of Capistrano multistage to set up multiple environments? How do you set the environment your application will…
Have you ever been annoyed by trying to find or grep within a Subversion working directory and getting duplicates results from the .svn directories? A popular workaround is:
And add the condition clause after the -o option. This expression will…
The overflow property specifies what happens if content overflows an element's box and is supported by all major browsers. However Internet Explorer 6 and 7 display some peculiar (and undesired) behavior when overflow is set to 'auto'. With that setting, the overflow is clipped, and a scroll-bar is added to…
One of the many things that make Internet Explorer "special" is that it doesn't know how to resize images correctly. Particularly annoying is how this affects scaling down images because they become unacceptably jagged.
The problem resides in the interpolation method used by Internet Explorer. Microsoft finally introduced the…
PCR Web Design and Four Peas Consulting announce a partnership to develop and market LeaguePortal.com, a sports league and team management website. LeaguePortal.com simplifies administration of recreational and competitive sports leagues. By combining league management and team management functionality into a seamless interface, league managers can manage multiple divisions from…