ActiveSupport::StringInquirer

It is common in Rails 3.0 applications that you want to provide default views for a group of controllers. Let’s say you have a bunch of controllers inside the Admin namespace and you would like each action to fallback to a default template. So if ...

Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as our standard authorization solution.

We can now plug into every facet of the Rails jQuery UJS adapter, binding to custom events, and even customizing internal functions, without hacking or monkey-patching the rails.js file itself.

When CoffeeScript was added to Rails 3.1 they forgot one very important part, the ability to use it when responding to JavaScript (JS) requests!

In Rails 3.1 it’s incredibly easy to build your application’s JavaScript using CoffeeScript, however ...

If you’re testing the behavior of deprecated code in your Ruby project, the warning messages littered throughout your spec output is incredibly noisy.

You could silence all warnings with ::ActiveSupport::Deprecation.silenced = true, but you might...

Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...

What is makandra cards?

We are makandra, a team of 60 web developers, DevOps and UI/UX experts from Augsburg, Germany. We have firmly anchored the sharing of knowledge and continuous learning in our company culture. O...

Introduction

Most of the time it is a tedious task to apply a code style guide to an existing code base as there are likely to be a lot of conflicts. At makandra we are using [makandra-rubocop](https://makandracards.com/makandra/62188-makandr...

There was an issue with makandra_sidekiq < 0.2 concerning the stopping of Sidekiq.

Sidekiq < 6 has two finishing timeouts: one for finishing things itself (A), and one for sidekiqctl befo...