For my Gem Session project Holly I ran the Ironman of drag'n'drop implementations: Dragging in nested lists
Today, I ran into trouble on a fairly fresh installed VM, running Ubuntu. I tried to bundle install and got...
When you use method_missing to have an object return something on a method call, always make sure you also...
When refactoring a sequence of steps to a new, more descriptive step, you can use the steps method and Ruby...
You can specify the version of bundler to execute a command (most often you need an older version of bundler...
It's the last bugfix release. We will get another year of security fixes, then no more patches.
Updated the card with our current best practice (shared app code and specs via symlinks).
has_defaults is now a gem, no longer a plugin. The plugin version no longer exists. Note that plugins are...
ActiveSupport::Memoizable will be removed from Rails and has a lot of strange caveats that will ruin your day.
Rack has a limit for how many form parameters it will parse. This limit is 65536 by default.
I posted a solution which is awesome and also does natural sorting.
Sometimes you need to remove high Unicode characters from a string, so all characters have a code point between 0...
Ruby 1.9.2 is very slow when loading files, especially starting Rails servers or running specs takes forever.
Always use simply require 'spec_helper' If you mix it up like require 'spec_helper' require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper'
ActiveSupport >= 3 has Date.parse('2011-02-10').beginning_of_quarter #=> 2011-01-01 Date.parse('2011-02-10').end_of_quarter...
If you're suffering from a huge de.yml or similiar file, cry no more. Rails lets you freely organize your...
If you upgrade to the mysql2 gem, you will run into the problem that the server's database.yml (which is...
Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...
Why string sorting sucks in vanilla Ruby Ruby's sort method doesn't work as expected with special characters (like...
Introspect the Ruby Heap by indexing, counting, locating references to and detaching (in order to release) objects.
This script loads a dump into your development database. You can provide the full path to you database dump like...
When using the asset pipeline your assets (images, javascripts, stylesheets, fonts) live in folders inside app: app/assets/fonts app/assets/images...
A collection of snippets to generate random number under certain conditions, as: gaussian with a specified distribution triangular distribution
Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications...