When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app: app/assets/fonts app/assets/images...

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Myth #5 (Each HTTPS Site Needs its Own Public IP Address) is actually still true, but the rest of the...

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Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications...

Localizing a non-trivial application can be a huge undertaking. This card will give you an overview over the many...

Note: You might also want to check out BoxCryptor which does pretty much the same, and is supported across many...

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%p #{link_to "label", "url"}! Haml is a great engine for writing shorter, readable HTML. However, there is...

When requests arrive at the application servers simultaneously, weird things can happen. Sometimes, this can also happen if a user...

Today, this line made me trouble. Can you spot the mistake? match 'sitemap.xml' => 'feeds#sitemap', :constraints => { :format => 'xml' }, :as => 'sitemap...

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How to call routes, make requests and try out helpers from the Rails console.

Sometimes you need a special version of chrome because it has some features you need for testing, like in this...

When you want to test how an web-application reacts in a specific resolution, you can set up a specific...

Controller responses often include Javascript code that contains values from Ruby variables. E.g. you want to call a Javascript function...

By default, Google Analytics tracks the current URL for every request. Sometimes you will want to track another URL instead...

After installing Bundler 1.1 you will get the following warning when running tests: WARNING: Cucumber-rails required outside of env.rb...

You won't usually have to do this. It's OK to route all formats to a controller, and let...

When you regularly make use of Cucumber's "show me the page" step (or let pages pop up as errors...

I followed this nice guide Connecting to MSSQL with Ruby on Ubuntu - lambie.org until I ran in the following errors...

Let's say you need to revert a migration that happened a while back. You'd create a new migration...

If your project manager wants to do gatekeeping on a project, as a developer you need to follow the following...

If you're responsible for gatekeeping in a projects, here is a guide, what to do. In order to reduce...

REST Client is a nice, simple HTTP client library for Ruby. When you do a simple GET request like that...

Don't you just hate to write Cucumber path helpers to be able to say this?

Imagine you have a piece of code that tries to send a request to a remote server. Now the server...

If Sunspot does not work and fails with a backtrace similar to this: /project/shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/rsolr-1.0.6/lib/rsolr/client.rb:227:in `adapt_response' /project/shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/rsolr-1.0.6/lib/rsolr/client.rb:164...