Force RubyMine to notice file system changes

While upgrading CarrierWave from version 0.11.x to 3.x, we encountered some very nasty fails. Below are the basic changes you need to perform and some behavior you may eventually run into when upgrading your application. This aims to save you some...

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...

Say we want …

• to create a Gallery that has a name and has_many :images, which in turn have a caption
• to offer the user a single form to create a gallery with any number of images
• immediate uploads with a progress bar per image
• a snapp...

I recently noticed that better_errors allows you to to open files from within your favorite editor. However it was not so easy to get rubymine:// links to work ...

tig path_to_file_or_files_or_path_with_wildcard

A flat folder structure can be cool if you have only a few folders but can be painful for huge amounts. We recently had this issue in a project with more than 100.000 attachments, where we used a structure like this `/attachments/123456789/file.pd...

Sometimes, due to git or other "accidents", important files get deleted or overwritten.

At a state when even Ctrl+Z doesn't work anymore, you maybe can rescue your files with RubyMines "Local History"-Feature!

To do this try the following:

• If...

While renaming a file sometimes feels like "dropping its history", that is not true: Just use git log --follow on renamed files to access their full history.

Given a file "bar" that was previously named "foo":

touch foo
git add foo
git c...

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...