Occasionally you need to do something directly on the server -- like having all records recalculate something that cannot be done...

You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...

thrivingkings.com

An alert alternative for jQuery that looks good. Apprise is a very simple, fast, attractive, and unobtrusive way to communicate...

Ruby comes with a class BigDecimal which you can use for arbitrary precision arithmetic. You should use BigDecimal instead of...

When storing floating-point numbers such as prices or totals in an SQL database, always use a DECIMAL column. Never...

When deploying an application with "cap deploy" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations...

travisonrails.com

You set a flash message and it shows up as it should. However, it is displayed again the next time...

agileweboperations.com

User Stories should describe what a user wants the system to do. Purely technical tasks should usually be implemented as...

If you save a non-standard object (not a String or Fixnum, etc) like the AwesomeClass from your application in...

httpd.apache.org

If you want to have a new log file every day automatically, but avoid using logrotate, the CustomLog directive is...

You most likely have a form element inside another form element. Don't do that. Ever. Firefox and Chrome will...

You can use CSS attribute selectors in your step definitions like this: Then /^the page should have a meta description...

Partials always define a local variable with the same name as themselves. E.g. when you are in _recent_users.html.erb, a local...

The Edge Rider gem will define a method collect_ids on your ActiveRecord models, scopes, integer scalars and collections, which...

rails.lighthouseapp.com

This is a bug in Rails 2.3.11 which will be fixed in a future maintenance release. Until then you can...

github.com

A capybara driver that uses WebKit via QtWebKit.

To display a list of your current Git remotes and their endpoints, you can say git remote -v

makandra dev

If you want to convert a README.rdoc file to HTML, say this from a shell: rdoc README.rdoc

github.com

Ruby gem to check whether a given bic/account-no-combination can possibly be valid for a German bank. Can also resolve German...

ActiveRecord gives you the :include option to load records and their associations in a fixed number of queries. This is...

If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console...

ActiveRecord models know how to cast a given string to the type of a given attribute (or column).

linux.die.net

Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...

User.active.to_sql Rails 2 Use either the Edge Rider or fake_arel gem to get #to_sql backported...