Our old solution for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+.

navy 0.5.1+ gives empty navigation containers a CSS class .navy-empty which you can hide via .navy-navigation &.navy-empty...

For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...

blog.pivotal.io

So you are debugging like a boss and lost track of where you actually are in your code? No problem...

progfu.com

I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take...

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github.com

The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release is not backwards compatible to 1...

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The very useful andand gem does not play very nice with Ruby's SimpleDelegator (or vice versa). This following will...

ebobby.org

A technique to vastly reduce the number of join model records that need to be stored in the database.

If you get a stacktrace complaining about uninitialized constant MysqlCompat::MysqlRes a system library update might broke your gem.

When you have two models in a has_many, has_one or belongs_to association, the :inverse_of option in...

Capybara gives you two different methods for executing Javascript: page.evaluate_script("$('input').focus()") page.execute_script("$('input').focus()")

Rarely, you might want to rebuild all gems with native extensions, because they might be compiled against outdated system libraries...

If you're using the Capybara webdriver, steps sometimes fail because the browser hasn't finished loading the next page...

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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...

In theory you can take any scope and extend it with additional joins or conditions. We call this chaining scopes...

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

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The (admittedly crazy) goal of this Gem is to be able to format/split all phone numbers in the world.

This is for you if you get the following strange error from the state_machine gem: undefined method `-' for #

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speakerdeck.com

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

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

Geordi now supports our solution for running Selenium tests without having Firefox or Chrome windows popping up all over your...

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

If you get this warning on your local machine one of these steps might help: Rebuilt the gem with the...

If some of your JavaScripts fail on Internet Explorer, but only in staging or production environments, chances are that JavaScript...