When using virtual attributes, the attached trait can be useful to automatically copy errors from one attribute to another.
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Do that for noble reasons only.
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Getting started with Ruby extensions in C.
In modern Rails versions you can also use ActiveRecord's pluck method. User.active.pluck(:id) => [1, 5, 23, 42]
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In july Google announced a new version of their image serach tool Google Images. But you won't find it...
delocalize provides localized date/time and number parsing functionality for Rails.
First of all: You could just use RVM which would make the pain go away. If for some reason you...
You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...
Be careful! The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're...
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Physical servers worked, EC2 did not.
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Capistrano task for Bundler.
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