You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...
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...
You set a flash message and it shows up as it should. However, it is displayed again the next time...
Airbrake (formerly Hoptoad) already ignores certain errors like InvalidAuthenticityToken by default (see Airbrake::Configuration::IGNORE_DEFAULT).\ To ignore additional classes...
User Stories should describe what a user wants the system to do. Purely technical tasks should usually be implemented as...
Awesome presentation for the new HTML5 features we will get to play with. This presentation should probably be viewed in...
We can now plug into every facet of the Rails jQuery UJS adapter, binding to custom events, and even customizing...
If you save a non-standard object (not a String or Fixnum, etc) like the AwesomeClass from your application in...
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...
This is a bug in Rails 2.3.11 which will be fixed in a future maintenance release. Until then you can...
Documentation for the horrible RDoc syntax.
To display a list of your current Git remotes and their endpoints, you can say git remote -v
If you want to convert a README.rdoc file to HTML, say this from a shell: rdoc README.rdoc
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).
Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...