Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...

The asset pipeline changes the paths of CSS files during precompilation. This opens a world of pain when CSS files...

vitalets.github.io

Angular-xeditable is a bundle of AngularJS directives that allows you to create editable elements. Such technique is also known...

engineyard.com

Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

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We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

If you get an error like this: An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue.

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PDFKit converts a web page to a PDF document. It uses a Webkit engine under the hood...

Microsoft Exchange service administrators can enable Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is a rather accessible XML API for interacting with...

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feedjira.com

Great gem to consume RSS feeds. I was missing some features on Ruby's RSS::Parser that I found in...

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github.com

Parses URLs of social networks to extract IDs or screen names. It does not get confused by child routes: you...

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github.com

The debugger gem does not seem to be properly working on Ruby 2. Use byebug instead! Byebug is a simple...

rails-assets.org

Automatically builds gems from Bower packages (currently 1700 gems available). Packaged Javascript files are then automatically available in your asset...

In whenever you can schedule Ruby code directly like so: every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do runner "MyModel.task_to...

So you're getting an error message like the following, although your Gemfile lists shoulda-matchers and it has always...

The most obvious way to use spring is to call it explicitly: spring rails console spring rake db:migrate...

Aruba is an extension to Cucumber that helps integration-testing command line tools. When your tests involve a Rails test...

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Using this gem, whenever a Capybara test in Cucumber, Rspec or Minitest fails, the HTML for the failed page and...

For me guard recently took a very long to start (as in "minutes"), because I had lots of images in...

As you know, assignable_values does not invalidate a record even when an attribute value becomes unassignable. See this example...

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

RSpec 3.0 deprecates the :should way of writing specs for expecting things to happen. However, if you have tests you...

Warnings like those below may originate from rspec or shoulda-matchers or other gems that have not updated yet to...

So you want your Ruby script to install missing gems instead of dying? Take this method: def installing_missing_gems...