Our rspec_candy gem now gives you three matchers: be_same_number_as Tests if the given number is the...
The behaviour of browsers is very inconsistent when an Ajax request is answered with a redirect. Highlights are:
A number of issues concerning Sass/SCSS autocompletion and syntax highlighting were submitted as a feedback for RubyMine 4.5. Web development...
The next version of MySQL will include a built-in memcached daemon. This daemon can quickly get and set key/value...
For custom Rake tasks, you shouldn't need to modify them after the original definition. However, if you want to...
assignable_values now lets you define a secondary default that is only used if the primary default value is not...
You can use String#demodulize from ActiveSupport: "ActiveRecord::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections" "Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections"
When you develop a gem and you have a Gemfile in your project directory, you might be surprised that your...
Consul 0.4.0 comes with some new features. Dependencies Consul no longer requires assignable_values, it's optional for when you...
The usage shares of your site highly depends on your target audience. E.g. no Internet Explorer has ever seen hollyapp.com...
paper_trail is an excellent gem to track record versions and changes. You almost never want to reimplement something like...
When we looked at this card together a year ago, we were no longer sure if unquote is actually useful...
You've always been able to access the humanized version for the current value like this: song = Song.new(:genre => 'pop...
The will_paginate gem will show a default of 30 records per page. If you want to test pagination in...
Unless you changed the default, this will be 16 MB: mysql> SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name="max_allowed_packet"; +--------------------+----------+
Rake (like make) allows you to add dependencies to a task after you've initially declared it. Indeed it allows...
... you probably have a time zone issue. When you get Timecop.travel(Date.parse("2011-11-11 00:00") do Time.current # Thu...
In a nutshell: Use git rebase --onto target-branch source-commit target-branch means "branch you want to be based...
Sometimes, you may want to open up a second database connection, to a read slave or another database. When doing...
The asset pipeline from Rails 3.1 packported to 2.3. By Michael Grosser from parallel_tests fame.
The facebook API allows up to 600 requests per 600 seconds. If you poll more often, you'll get no...
Write your app using HTML, CSS or JavaScript, upload it to the PhoneGap Build service and get back app-store...
When deploying, Capistrano puts a REVISION file into your application's release directory. It contains the hash of the commit...
For my Gem Session project Holly I ran the Ironman of drag'n'drop implementations: Dragging in nested lists