Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".
Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...
MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...
Rails 2.3.16+ on Ruby 1.9 causes warnings like this: .../gems/activesupport-2.3.17/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb:22: warning: regexp match /.../n against to UTF-8 string...
If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...
So you're using multiple remotes that offer the same branch? $ git branch -a | grep my-branch remotes/something/my-branch remotes/origin/my-branch
Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...
UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.
If git gives you an error message such as "fatal: bad config file line 123 in .git/config" after you tried...
Calling bundle update GEMNAME will update a lot more gems than you think. E.g. when you do this...
Awesome color schemes for RubyMine, Sublime Text 2 and other editors. To install the themes into your Rubymine, copy intellij...
If you say git stash, your stashed changes will be identified with an automatically generated message: $ git stash
When doing a git blame, git will blame the person who added or removed white space in a line (e.g...
Axlsx is an incredible gem to generate "Office Open XML" spreadsheet files (XLSX). Does not break on large spreadsheets and...
Tracekit is a JavaScript library that automatically normalizes and exposes stack traces for unhandled exceptions across the 5 major browsers...
When you have a Pull Request on GitHub that includes commits from another Pull Request, you will still see them...
When you are using git rebase and are currently editing a commit (due to a conflict, for example), you may...
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A nice way to stage absolutely all changes (edits, additions, deletions): git add --all
Great solution in a GitHub issue.
Git commits should be very deliberate, and only contain changes that you really want to be in there. In order...
ActiveRecord has a feature called counter caching where the containing record in a has_many relationship caches the...
For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...