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...
User.active.to_sql Rails 2 Use either the Edge Rider or fake_arel gem to get #to_sql backported...
The Basic Authentication header encodes username and password. Effectively, it's just Base64 plus a "Basic" prefix.
Since version 1.5 RubyGems requires at least Ruby 1.8.7. The last one working with Ruby 1.8.6 was RubyGems 1.4.2.
It is common in Rails 3.0 applications that you want to provide default views for a group of controllers. Let...
One of the thornier problems in our workflow is knowing when assets are delivered from the designer and keeping them...
There is no way to do it. This behavior is by design. You lose.