Bundler 1.1 has been released, is very fast
Bundler 1.1 has been released. With this version you no longer need to wait for this:
Fetching source index…
The new Bundler is smarter Show archive.org snapshot and can fetch required metadata in a few seconds.
You can install the new version by saying:
sudo gem install bundler
Related cards:
Capybara - The missing API
The Capybara API is somewhat hard for parse for a list of methods you can call on a Capybara node. Below you can find such a list. It's all copied from the Capybara docs, so all credit goes to the Ca...
How to create memory leaks in jQuery
jQuery doesn't store information about event listeners and data values with the element itself. This information is instead stored in a global, internal jQuery cache object. Every time you add an event listener or data value to a jQuery object, ...
Capybara 2.0 has been released
The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release
- is not backwards compatible to 1.x versions of Capybara
- does not support Ruby 1....
Security issues with hash conditions in Rails 2 and Rails 3
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft' }). The later is nicer to read, but has horrible security implications in some versions of Ru...
Bundler: Gemfile.lock is corrupt & gems are missing from the DEPENDENCIES section
So you're getting this failure when running bundle install on an older project:
Your Gemfile.lock is corrupt. The following gems are missing from the DEPENDENCIES section: 'archive-tar-minitar' 'hoe' 'rcov'
This happens when you ar...
has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Make your shoulda tests faster with fast_context
decided to go fixtureless with Shoulda + Factory Girl. All good, except one problem. Slow as fuck tests. So here’s fast_context as a solution for it. fast_context compiles all the ‘should’s within a context into a single test.
Fixing "A copy of Klass has been removed from the module tree but is still active"
This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class in lib is calling Model.static_method.
Workaround A
Stop referencing autoloaded classes fro...
The JavaScript Object Model: A deep dive into prototypes and properties
Speaker today is Henning Koch, Head of Development at makandra.
This talk will be in German with English slides.
Introduction
As web developers we work with JavaScript every day, even when our backend code uses anothe...
Rails 3.1.0 has been released!
jQuery as new default Javascript library, streaming response support, attr_accessible with roles, prepared statements, easier migrations.
Font Awesome 3.0 has been released
40 new icons, spinner-style rotation with CSS animations, smaller file size, possibility to sub-set the font to only include the icons you need.