Counters for Partials
When rendering a partial with the :collection option, you are automatically provided with a counter variable inside the partial template.
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Good real world example for form models / presenters in Rails
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Remove resource fork files from a FAT volume on MacOS
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.
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When CoffeeScript was added to Rails 3.1 they forgot one very important part, the ability to use it when responding to JavaScript (JS) requests!
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Rails 3 Remote Links and Forms: A Definitive Guide
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.
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There is a problem with AJAX response handling for Rails 3 remote links and forms in Internet Explorer. This problem affects applications still using jQuery 1.4.2.
makandra/consul
Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as our standard authorization solution.
Rails: Assigning associations via HTML forms
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Default views in Rails 3.0 with custom resolvers
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Passenger ignores RailsEnv directive for Rails 3 applications
You might find that your Passenger ignores all RailsSomething
directives in the vhost for your new Rails 3 application. The culprit is a file config.ru
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