Locale: Localisation for Rails developers
A possible way for localisation in Rails applications that allows editing translations remotely.
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Middleman configuration for Rails Developers
Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.
Out of the box, Middleman brings Haml, Sass, helpers etc. However, it can be configured to do even better. This card is a list of improvement ...
Declare different CSS background-images for different locales
If you would like to use language specific layout (e.g. background-images) in your applications stylesheets you can achieve this easily by using the lang attribute in your views (ERB):
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<%...
Fixing "undefined local variable or method `version_requirements' for #<Rails::GemDependency:0x...> (NameError)"
Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack fixes the problem.
if Gem::VERSION >= "1.3.6"
module Rails
class GemDependency
...
6 front-end techniques for Rails developers. Part I: From big ball of mud to separated concerns
Amazing guide how to divide a ball of Javascript spaghetti distinct separate layers (model, view, controller, backend adapter).
It does not use a Javascript framework.
How to make changes to a Ruby gem (as a Rails developer)
At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads), active_type (> 1M downloads), and geordi (> 200k downloads)
Developing a Ruby gem is different from developing Rails applications, w...
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...
Rails I18n fallback locales
When you need to create a locale for a language variant (like Austrian for German), you probably don't want to duplicate your entire de.yml file only to change a few minor exceptions for our Austrian friends.
Luckily, the I18n gem used by Rails...
Rails I18n scope for humanized attribute names
ActiveModel classes have a class method .human_attribute_name. This returns a human-readable form of the attribute:
Person.human_attribute_name(:first_name) # => "First name"
By default Rails will use [String#humanize](https://ap...
Rails: Keeping structure.sql stable between developers
Why Rails has multiple schema formats
When you run migrations, Rails will write your current database schema into db/schema.rb. This file allows to reset the database schema without running migrations, by running rails db:schema:load.
The ...