There will probably be better solutions as we become more experienced with using Bundler, and more command line tools become...

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If you added a file by mistake, you can unstage it (but keep local changes) by saying git reset HEAD...

def task_with_hoptoad_notification(options) task(options) do begin yield rescue Exception => e Airbrake.notify(e) raise e

Rails 3, 4, 5, 6 config/application.rb config/environment.rb before the initialize! call (we don't usually edit this file)

The box shadows created rendered in IE by CSS3PIE look darker and are blurred differently than in browsers that render...

The state_machine gem ships with a scope with_state. This scope has some problems in complex queries or scope...

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Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.

Sometimes you want to fetch associations for an ActiveRecord that you already loaded, e.g. when it has deeply nested associations...

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There are three ways to define your own RSpec matchers, with increasing complexibility and options: 1) Use RSpec::Matchers.define

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

When you create e.g. a sidebar box that contains headlines and paragraphs, the final paragraph's margin in that box...

When you need to add a event listener to hundreds of elements, this might slow down the browser. An alternative...

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You may omit the /path/to/link_name to have a link with the same filename appear in the current directory

When deploying Rails applications you might have noticed that JS and CSS are not cached by all browsers.

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With this plugin, you can create a scalable tooltip by just using a single background image for the tooltip body...

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Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework. Please note: "Permission to...

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The point is, evented I/O is not magic scalability pixie dust, and like anything, there is a tradeoff.

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A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use...

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Boolean attributes can now be set by appending "which", "that" or "who" at the end: Given there is a movie...

When you roll custom URLs with hacks like routing-filter, you can put a spec like this into spec/routing/routing_spec.rb:

When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...

Spreewald has steps that let you test that e-mails have been sent, using arbitrary conditions in any combination.

Don't use should validate_format_of(...) because that matcher works in weird ways. Use the allow_value matcher instead...

Use this if you want to show or hide part of a form if certain options are selected or boxes...