You need to install the following packages before you can build the Nokogiri gem: sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev...

Even when you're using bundler, it might be significant in which order your gems are listed in your Gemfile...

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Ruby gem that provides an AR-style interface for the Pivotal Tracker API.

You need to install the following packages before you can build the Paperclip gem: sudo apt-get install imagemagick librmagick...

You can use record.send(:update_without_callbacks) or record.send(:create_without_callbacks) This can be used as a...

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You don't need a Rails application to use Sass. Even when you're working on a static site you...

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power-rake db:migrate VERSION=20100913132321 By default the environments development, test, cucumber and performance are considered...

First of all: You could just use RVM which would make the pain go away. If for some reason you...

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You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...

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This gem is designed to provide CSS views to Rails, and a process to concatenate and minify these files to...

Call with the server's hostname (and user if you have no SSH agent), e.g. install-gems-remotely my.server.com

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This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...

Our gem Mail Magnet allows you to override e-mail recipients in ActionMailer so all mails go to a given...

There will probably be better solutions as we become more experienced with using Bundler, and more command line tools become...

Rails 3, 4, 5, 6 config/application.rb config/environment.rb before the initialize! call (we don't usually edit this file)

The state_machine gem ships with a scope with_state. This scope has some problems in complex queries or scope...

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Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

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Boolean attributes can now be set by appending "which", "that" or "who" at the end: Given there is a movie...

When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...

popthis is awesome when used with inaction_mailer. Setup inaction_mailer Install the gem: sudo gem install popthis

Capybara does not play nice with sites that have some actions protected by SSL, some not. A popular way to...

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Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...