After updating your RubyGems, you will probably not be able to run Capistrano any more, but receive an error similar...

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RubyGems 1.6.0 has undergone some changes which may cause Rails 2.x applications to break with an error like this...

On 32bit systems, the maximum representable Time is 2038-01-19 03:14:07 in UTC or 2038-01-19...

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This tool is used on our application servers (and called when deploying) but it also works locally. Just call dumple...

The code below shows a method #validate which uses Nokogiri to validate an XML document against an XSD schema. It...

When defining a trait using the Modularity gem, you must take extra steps to define constants to avoid caveats (like...

In case https://www.rubydoc.info/ is to slow or offline, you can also read a gem documentation offline. Start a server...

Are you adding a "Then show me the page" and re-run Cucumber whenever there is a failing scenario? Don...

Call geordi clean from a project root to remove unused and unnecessary files inside it. This script is part of...

You can usually just use the eq matched to compare two numbers: expect(deal.total).to eq(120)

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Ruby's net/http is setup to never verify SSL certificates by default. Most ruby libraries do the same. That means...

Use the htmlentities gem. Encoding works like this: require 'htmlentities' coder = HTMLEntities.new string = "<élan>" coder.encode(string) # => "&lt;élan&gt;"

Use the Launchy gem: Launchy.open('http://www.ruby-lang.org/')

When a has_many association basically serves to store a list of associated strings (tags, categories, ...), it can be convenient...

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E.g. when you're using a tagging gem, you have seen virtual attributes that get and set a string array...

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In order to go back one page in your Cucumber tests, you can use the following step definition for Capybara...

Plugins (and gems) are typically tested using a complete sample rails application that lives in the spec folder of the...

To install webmock 1.5.0: sudo gem install webmock --version "=1.5.0" or sudo gem install webmock -v "=1.5.0"

As a user of Bundler you have spent significant time looking at this message: Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org...

Given this class: class Foo class Bar end end If you want to clean up this code with the modularity...

This is a bash script for those of you who need to install all gems for all projects (e.g. to...

After switching to Rails 3 you may get a LoadError with the following message when trying to use your application...

You will need to upgrade to RSpec >= 2 and rspec-rails >= 2 for Rails 3. Here are some hints to...

I prefer the application that I'm currently working on to be reachable at http://localhost/. So when I switch...