url = 'http://www.foocorp.com/foo/bar' URI.parse(url).host # => www.foocorp.com Note that this will raise an error if the given argument is...

If you require your Rails models manually, pay attention to the path you use. Unless you have...

The linked slidedeck holds many tips, of which I list the most interesting to me below DATA and END

The __END__ keyword tells Ruby where a file ends – but you don't have to stop there. Any text you...

Ruby's mathn library changes Fixnum division to work with exact Rationals, so 2 / 3 => 0 2 / 3 * 3 => 0...

Simply use OpenStruct#to_h to receive an OpenStruct's hash representation. In older Rubies you need OpenStruct#marshal_dump...

Ever wanted autocompletion for paths from paths.rb in Cucumber? This card lets you write your steps like this:

In a nutshell: return statements inside blocks cause a method's return value to change. This is by design (and...

If you get errors from your development WEBrick that contain unicode salad, you are probably requesting the page via SSL...

Tempfiles get deleted automatically With the the ruby Tempfile class you can create temporary files. Those files only stick around...

RubyMine: Set specific Ruby version per project

I was experiencing the following problem: It seems your ruby installation is missing psych (for YAML output). To eliminate this...

You can use String#demodulize from ActiveSupport: "ActiveRecord::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections" "Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections"

Consul 0.4.0 comes with some new features. Dependencies Consul no longer requires assignable_values, it's optional for when you...

Today, I ran into trouble on a fairly fresh installed VM, running Ubuntu. I tried to bundle install and got...

When refactoring a sequence of steps to a new, more descriptive step, you can use the steps method and Ruby...

It's the last bugfix release. We will get another year of security fixes, then no more patches.

ActiveSupport::Memoizable will be removed from Rails and has a lot of strange caveats that will ruin your day.

Rack has a limit for how many form parameters it will parse. This limit is 65536 by default.

I posted a solution which is awesome and also does natural sorting.

Sometimes you need to remove high Unicode characters from a string, so all characters have a code point between 0...

Ruby 1.9.2 is very slow when loading files, especially starting Rails servers or running specs takes forever.

ActiveSupport >= 3 has Date.parse('2011-02-10').beginning_of_quarter #=> 2011-01-01 Date.parse('2011-02-10').end_of_quarter...