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A good tool to generate strong passwords and secrets is "apg". You can get it with sudo apt-get install...

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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...

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A popular ruby idiom I keep stumbling upon is def do_some_thing_for(values) values = Array(values)

Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft...

There are many different methods that allow mapping an Array to a Hash in Ruby. Array#to_h with a...

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Getting started with Ruby extensions in C.

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If you want to rename a key of a Ruby hash, this could help you out. Just put it into...

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delocalize provides localized date/time and number parsing functionality for Rails.

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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There are two distinct ways of commenting Haml markup: HTML and Ruby. HTML comments This will create an HTML comment...

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

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

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

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rjb is a bridge software. It connects Ruby and Java.

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You can write regular expressions some different ways, e.g. /regex/ and %r{regex}. For examples, look here. Remember that it...

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YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just...

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Ruport’s acts_as_reportable module provides support for using ActiveRecord for data collection. You can use it to get...

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home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than...

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A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.

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Ancestry is a gem/plugin that allows the records of a Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord model to be organised as a...