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Our collection of the most useful Cucumber steps, Spreewald, now supports exact matching of form fields and lets you use...

When your block takes an argument that should have an default, only in Ruby 1.9 you can say: block = lambda...

If you need to find out which of your local commits are not on the remote server do this:

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This must be one of the coolest, yet quite unknown, technique in Ruby. For certain types of problems (e.g. when...

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When you need to see the content of a page (i.e. not all the HTML but the relevant text body...

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To clear the query cache in your MySQL database manually, e.g. for database profiling, execute the following command in your...

So you added a new callback to your model that (e.g.) caches some data when it is saved. Now you...

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Sometimes, you just need to shoot from the hip…or deploy your local changes without committing them. Put this snippet...

If you want to find out whether a Class object is directly inheriting from another class, use superclass: ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound.super...

These two models can be used to access the posts and associated comments of a WordPress database.

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