Makandra cards will auto-detect the language used for syntax highlighting. This auto-detection sometimes fails for short code snippets...
You can specify the version of bundler to execute a command (most often you need an older version of bundler...
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...
Rack has a limit for how many form parameters it will parse. This limit is 65536 by default.
Note that this seems to affect only recent Rails 2 versions. You will not encounter this until you are writing...
New way to install an actual puppet version on ubuntu
On case-insensitive file systems like Mac's HFS+ (per default – you may change this, but it won't work...
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...
In large forms (30+ controls) new Capybara version become [extremely slow] when filling out fields. It takes several seconds per...
This script loads a dump into your development database. You can provide the full path to you database dump like...
Some progress was made by browsers on implementing CSS filters like blur, greyscale or some other effects. You might already...
Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. The linked page...
Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications...
If you need a gem for a certain purpose, be sure to check this site. The rankings are determined by...
Localizing a non-trivial application can be a huge undertaking. This card will give you an overview over the many...
If your project uses another version than your default Ruby, RubyMine will give you incorrect inspections, for example.\
Note: You might also want to check out BoxCryptor which does pretty much the same, and is supported across many...
There is a conflict between current capistrano versions and the 2.5.1 net-ssh gem. Make sure you upgrade to 2.5.2...
MySQL version 5.1 comes with an alternative, faster InnoDB implementation (called "InnoDB Plugin"). Switching is easy: Stop your mysqld with...
If you get an error like this ... can’t find executable rails for rails-3.2.3 (Gem::Exception) ... one of several...
Though the W3C even gives it as an example, no browser actually supports this CSS: img:before { content: "something"; }
Sometimes you need a special version of chrome because it has some features you need for testing, like in this...