In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used...
If you want to exclude your staging site from Google using robots.txt without running the risk to forget deleting the...
This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...
To return non-HTML responses (like XLS spreadsheets), we usually use the respond_to do |format| format.xls do # send spreadsheet...
There are three ways to define your own RSpec matchers, with increasing complexibility and options: 1) Use RSpec::Matchers.define
When deploying Rails applications you might have noticed that JS and CSS are not cached by all browsers.
When you roll custom URLs with hacks like routing-filter, you can put a spec like this into spec/routing/routing_spec.rb:
When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...
So you screwed up and copied Paperclip secrets from one project to another. Here is a semi-automatic, painful way...
Capybara does not play nice with sites that have some actions protected by SSL, some not. A popular way to...
An alternative to this technique is using VCR. VCR allows you to record and replay real HTTP responses, saving you...
This will tunnel HTTP requests to one given domain and port through an intermediary SSH server: ssh -L 8080:targethost...
For example, to send a form and populate a preview div with the response. $('content_form').request({ parameters: { 'preview': "1...
The Rails router has been written and rewritten at least four times2, including a recent rewrite for the upcoming Rails...
Ancestry is a gem/plugin that allows the records of a Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord model to be organised as a...
Dir.glob(File.join RAILS_ROOT, 'app', 'models', '*.rb').collect{ |path| path[/.+\/(.+).rb/,1] }.collect(&:camelize).collect(&:constantize)
sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...
See the lemonade descriptions. Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems: it does not work with Sass2...
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
ActsAsSolr::Post.execute(Solr::Request::Delete.new(:query => "#{Location.solr_configuration[:type_field]}:#{ModelClass}")) ActsAsSolr::Post.execute(Solr::Request::Commit.new)
This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class...
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]
Gem to provide nice looking urls ("/blog/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed"). If you don't need anything too special (like i18n for the urls...
httptunnel creates a bidirectional virtual data connection tunnelled in HTTP requests. The HTTP requests can be sent via an HTTP...