Be careful! The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're...

When you load a record with find options that have SQL fragments in :select or :joins, ActiveRecord will make that...

Physical servers worked, EC2 did not.

Cached fonts WILL caused an unstyled flash of text.

In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used...

This gem is designed to provide CSS views to Rails, and a process to concatenate and minify these files to...

Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis (@brianreavis) to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on...

Capistrano task for Bundler.

This post explains, in some detail, how we will implement a nice performance boost for Rails developers. Understanding the details...

A jQuery plugin that sets a div or span to show a countdown to a given time

WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD...

Expiration of Rails sessions By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window. To change this edit...

Embedded Flash movies do not always obey element order and z-index. To fix this, set the wmode attribute to...

When submitting textareas, browsers sometimes include carriage returns (\r) instead of just line feeds (\n) at the end of each...

If you iterate over a collection of arrays, you can destructure the arrays within the block parameters: movies_and_directors...

When a spec only runs when it is called directly, but not as part of the whole test suite, make...

Since RubyMine 3.1 you can drag tabs across panes/windows and out of the main window to create new windows.

sudo apt-get install i8kutils Reboot You can now run the i8k tools such as i8kmon Setting the fan speed...

Call with the server's hostname (and user if you have no SSH agent), e.g. install-gems-remotely my.server.com

The following Haml will do: %head{ :profile => 'http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile' } %link{ :href => image_path('favicon.ico'), :rel => 'icon', :type => 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon' }

There are two distinct ways of commenting Haml markup: HTML and Ruby. HTML comments This will create an HTML comment...

This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...