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

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

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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...

You are probably using Ruby 1.8.7 with a too recent versions of Rubygems. Downgrade your Rubygems to the latest version...

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config.action_controller.action_on_unpermitted_parameters enables logging or raising an exception if parameters that are not explicitly permitted are...

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quiet_assets helps with disabling asset pipeline log messages in the development log. When the gem is added, asset pipeline...

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Spring is a Rails application preloader. When debugging e.g. the rails gem, you'll be wondering why your raise, puts...

Programatically invoke Rails generators Require the generator, instantiate it and invoke it (because generators are Thor::Groups, you need...

Rubygems can produce lots of deprecation warnings, but sometimes, you cannot fix them. To have a tidy terminal with output...

If you want to label things with a color but don't actually care which cholor, you can use the...

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better_errors is an awesome gem for enhanced error pages in development, featuring a live-REPL for some light debugging...

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When using TextMate2 with the cucumber bundle, it does not recognize step definitions (e.g. custom_steps.rb) as such but believes they...

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We now have a gem that supports our form model approach.