Problems with Rails 3 Remote Links and Forms Using jQuery .live() in IE

Thanks to habits engrained by Rails 2’s link_to_remote and remote_form_for, we expect that Rails 3 would also handle the AJAX response for our remote links and forms. But it doesn’t; it leaves that for you.

In Rails 2, you could use link_to_remote ... :update => 'id' to automatically replace the content of $('#id').

To do the same in Rails 3, include usual rails-ujs JavaScript, and...

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...

To make the RSpec matcher of the authorization solution Consul work with Rspec 2.x read the following blog post.

The difference between .bind(), .live(), and .delegate() is not always apparent. Having a clear understanding of all the differences, though, will help us write more concise code and prevent bugs from popping up in our interactive applications.

Leads to awesomeness and unicorns when used in production.

Info on install database_cleaner.

SSL in Rails 3 is non-obvious.

Postgres 9.4 introduces a new column type: jsonb. json and jsonb columns store data differently, so just compare the two when you want to store JSON data and choose the one that matches your use case best.

Rails 4.2 includes support for `js...

You probably need to activate X-Sendfile.