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This gem gives you a rake task db:seed:dump do create a db/seeds.rb from your current database state.

Instead of using this hack you might want to use MariaDB 10.x which can work with both old and...

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Tool to show you which gems are slow to load: ➜ git:(master) ✗ bundle exec bumbler [################################################# ] (49/65) travis-lint...

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Stackprof is a sampling call-stack profile for Ruby 2.1+. Instead of tracking all method calls, it will simply collect...

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Uses FFI and works all relevant operating systems. If you'd try to do it yourself, you'd have to...

Validations should be covered by a model's spec. This card shows how to test an individual validation. This is...

To install gems Bundler needs to be able to talk to https://api.rubygems.org. If you are behind a proxy you...

I got this error when running Rails 2.3 tests for Rails LTS. More stacktrace: NoMethodError: undefined method `cache' for Gem...

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Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation

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You login to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute? uptime

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rack-mini-profiler is a powerful Swiss army knife for Rack app performance. Measure SQL queries, memory allocation and CPU...

In Ruby 2.3 you can use <<~ instead of <<- to automatically remove indentation from a HEREDOCs: str = <<~MESSAGE Hello Universe!

The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...

E-mails are usually encoded using Quoted Printable. Here is how to decode or encode such strings. You probably know...

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Install this gem and stop using bundle exec or even Geordi's handy b. Yay!

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When using Sidekiq in your application, you must write thread-safe code. This wiki page also lists gems that are...

This looks like it is safe to use: 2.2.1 :001 > a = b = "hello world" "hello world" 2.2.1 :002 > a

I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...

Cucumber raises a Cucumber::Ambiguous if more than one step definitions match a step. Our new cucumber_priority gem provides...

Ruby has the class Proc which encapsulates a "block of code". There are 2 "flavors" of Procs: Those with "block...

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This class contains nerdcore things such as disassembling a piece of Ruby into VM calls or enabling tail-call optimization...

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When there's a Gemfile.lock in your working directory that you cannot remove by either checkout, reset [--hard], stash, probably...

Sometimes you just want to have a small web server that serves files to test something. Serve the current directory...

When you're developing a gem, never list the same dependency as both runtime and development dependency in your .gemspec...