If you get a Quota error with OpenStack, it doesn't have to be what it tell. For example, I...
When I upgraded from 0.5.4 PDFKit deadlocked or crashed when an ApplicationController::RouteError occured. If this error happens only because...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...
Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
A snippet of the carrierwave documentation You might come to a situation where you want to retroactively change a version...
If you need to enable NewRelic monitoring on certain machines within the same Rails environment, a simple solution is to...
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
Geordi 0.16+ supports running selenium tests with project-specific firefox versions. Just update the gem. It will still default to...
You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...
Copy the attached file to features/support. This gets you a convenience method: Capybara.javascript_test? Is true for Selenium, capybara-webkit...
Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside...
If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...
When writing Rails migrations to convert a string column to an integer you'd usually say: change_column :table_name...
So you're switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL? Here is some help... General hints on PostgreSQL \? opens the command overview...
Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...
dusen 0.4.8 and edge_rider 0.2.3 no longer depend on Rails (they still depend on ActiveRecord). That means you can...
With Rails 4, Concerns have become the “official” solution to the big-models problem. However, there’s a fair amount...
We’ve been working on one of our first Angular projects with a Rails backend. It’s been a great...
After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.
In order to keep the controllers directory tidy, we recently started to namespace controllers. With the :controller option you can...
When you're writing migrations that do more than changing tables (like, modify many records) you may want some output...
Custom matchers are a useful RSpec feature which you can use to DRY up repetitive expectations in your specs. Unfortunately...