The way MySQL's FULLTEXT tokenizer splits text into word tokens might not always be what you need. E.g. it splits a word at period characters.

Since the tokenizer has near-zero configuration options (minimum word length and stopwords list), you n...

ImageMagick has a command line tool called identify which can read image metadata:

>identify -verbose DSC00136.JPG
Image: DSC00136.JPG
  Format: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format)
  Class: DirectClass
  Geometry: 5472x3648+...

This is a small example on how you can check if your Postgres index can be used by a specific query in you Rails application. For more complex execution plans it might still be a good idea to use the same path of proof.

1. Identify the...

Since Rails 6.1, if we use where.not with multiple attributes, it applies logical NAND (NOT(A) OR NOT(B)) instead of NOR (NOT(A) AND NOT(B)). If you do not take care, this change will increase the matched set.

Examples

"Don't ...

This card shows how to upgrade a Rails 2 application from Rails 2.3.8 through every single patch level up to 2.3.18, and then, hopefully, Rails LTS.

2.3.8 to 2.3.9

This release has [many minor changes and fi...

Was ist Elastic?

• Suchmaschine, basierend auf Apache Lucene
• größtenteils Open-Source
• einige kommerzielle Features ("Elastic Stack", früher "X-Pack")
  • Zugriffsrechte (bis vor kurzen)
  • Monitoring
  • Reporting
  • Graph-Unterstützung...

Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile:

gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0'
gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
gem 'capybara', '< 2' # capybara 2+ requires Rails 3
gem 'mime-types', '< 2' # dependeny of capybara

...

There are many different methods that allow mapping an Array to a Hash in Ruby.

Enumerable#index_by (any Rails)

users = User.all
users_by_id = users.index_by(&:id)

{
  1 => #<User id: 1, name: "Alice">,
  2 => #<User id...

This is for those who already own an SSL certificate (e.g. using it in the Apache HTTP Server) and need to feed it to a Tomcat application. The main issue is that you need to convert your OpenSSL certificate for Java to use it in its keystore.

Cr...