You can get YAML.load to instantiate any Ruby object by embedding the desired class name into the YAML code. E.g...

If your controller spec never reaches your controller code: Make sure you are signed in. Make sure you are actually...

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Gallery of fonts you can use without much hassle in LaTeX. The license of the fonts vary, but are all...

If you need to do calculations inside the database and can not use Ruby objects you may run into problems...

When a has_many association basically serves to store a list of associated strings (tags, categories, ...), it can be convenient...

This card explains how to install RubyMine for the first time. If you want to upgrade an existing RubyMine installation...

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When rendering a partial with the :collection option, you are automatically provided with a counter variable inside the partial template...

nokogiri.org

Because Nokogiri needs to be compiled and dynamically linked against both libxml2 and libxslt, it has gained a reputation for...

Have you guys ever done the math on that? You asked or allowed for 24000 interruptions from literally every human...

Note that this card is very old. You might want to use ActiveType for your auto-coerced virtual attributes instead...

Don't insert table rows in a Rails database migration. This will break tests that expect that database to be...

Occasionally some complex query must be processed on the database because building thousands of Ruby objects is impracticable.

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E.g. when you're using a tagging gem, you have seen virtual attributes that get and set a string array...

makandra dev

In order to go back one page in your Cucumber tests, you can use the following step definition for Capybara...

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Selenium has been the siren song that continually calls out to us. Unfortunately, in practice we’ve been unable to...

To change a commit message of the most recent (unpushed) commit, you can simply use git commit --amend -m 'new...

Plugins (and gems) are typically tested using a complete sample rails application that lives in the spec folder of the...

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This step tests whether a given select option comes preselected in the HTML. There is another step to test that...

This collection of Sass mixins enables cross-browser styling (including IE with CSS3PIE) with less lines of code.

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You should never transmit sensitive data without encryption. Being logged in somewhere constitutes transmitting sensitive data. For Pivotal Tracker:

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Added utility methods for the Prototype Javascript framework.

This is non-trivial because you need to fake event objects and require different code for different browsers. Luckily, there...

When using an odd value for line-height in CSS the result will vary across all major browsers.\

When you use will_paginage to paginate a scope, and you want to obtain the total number of records matched...