Install libreadline: sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev Reinstall the ruby and tell rvm where to find readline

Your current ruby must be Ruby Enterprise. gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module Edit your httpd.conf according to the...

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When you are calling a method that may raise an exception that you don't care about, you might think...

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

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Copy the attached file to config/initializers/indent_string.rb and you can say "foo".indent(4) # " foo" Note you will find many simpler...

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

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ProgressBar is a simple Ruby library for displaying progress of long-running tasks on the console. It is intended to...

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Gem to get Ruby 1.9 features in Ruby 1.8.

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Code coverage for Ruby 1.9 with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

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This note summarizes the ruby exception hierarchy. Exception NoMemoryError ScriptError LoadError NotImplementedError SyntaxError SignalException Interrupt Timeout::Error # < ruby 1.9.2 StandardError...

Using .downcase or .upcase on strings containing umlauts does not work as expected in Ruby versions before 2.4. It leaves...

When selecting records in a date range, take care not to do it like this: start_date = Date.parse('2007-05...

Although it's tempting flirt with detecting mobile/touch devices with CSS media queries or Javascript feature detection alone, this approach...

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Note: capistrano_colors was merged into Capistrano starting from v2.13.5. However, this requires Ruby 1.9+. If you cannot upgrade Capistrano...

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Ruby bindings for Sundown, a fast and full-featured Markdown parser that lets you define renders for arbitrary output formats...

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Guide to writing CLI scripts in Ruby that play nice with pipe chains.

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When Rack::Bug has been added to your project and your Apache2/Passenger only replies with an Error 500 (Internal Server...

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Framework to write command-line apps in Ruby. Comes with a nice way of processing parameter options, some utility classes...

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[1,2,3,4].sample # => e.g. 4 If you'd like to cheat and give different weights to each element...

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When you use one line Ruby comments in ERB templates you should never do this (notice the whitespace in front...

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Seems like a useful gem for cases where ActiveRecord is overkill but you don't want to do everything by...

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To use different Ruby versions on your computer you can use the Ruby Version Manager. It also allows you to...

require 'open-uri' File.open('/target/path/to/downloaded.file', "wb") do |file| file.write open('http://example.com/your.file').read end Basic Authentication

There are several options, but most of them are impractical. The best way is to use the :ruby filter: