Be careful!
The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're doing, you can run into big trouble with your computer.

I play mp3 files on my car stereo that are stored on a SD-C...

If you are connected with a network that forbids e-mail traffic but allows SSH, you can tunnel your e-mail connection through a trusted, intermediary server:

 sudo ssh -i /home/local-user/.ssh/local-user.key -L 143:mail-server.tld:143 remote-...

Using uncountable resources is not recommended as it breaks Rails' magic, e.g. when using form_for. You'll always be better off using simple pluralizable resources.

Rails automatically creates path names for routes defined via the `res...

When you render a nested form for a Movie which has_many :actors, you want to render the right number of blank Actor forms. The right number means:

• A minimum number of blank forms so the user can add more Actors to an existing Movie, ...

When HTTP clients make an request they can define which response formats they can process. They do it by adding a header to the HTTP request like this:

Accept: application/json

This means the client will only understand JSON respon...

You've been there: A form cannot be submitted, but you don't see a validation error because the field at fault has no corresponding input field on the form. Because this is usually a bug, you insert debug information listing all errors into the fo...

Any form fields where users enter numbers should be an <input type="number">.

Numeric inputs have several benefits over <input type="text">:

• On mobile or tablet devices, number fields show a special virtual keyboard that shows mostly digit...

This collection contains some useful design resources for developers. Many of them were mentioned in the Refactoring UI tutorials.

Tutorials

• Refactoring UI Videos
• [Refactori...

Let's say we have posts with an attribute title that is mandatory.

Our example feature request is to tag these posts with a limited number of tags. The following chapters explain different approaches in Rails, how you can assign such a...