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...

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With Rails 4, Concerns have become the “official” solution to the big-models problem. However, there’s a fair amount...

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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...

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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...

Shared example groups are a useful RSpec feature. Unfortunately the default directory structure generated by rspec-rails has no obvious...

In Rails 5 you can say: ApplicationController.render( :template => 'users/index', :layout => 'my_layout', :assigns => { users: @users } ) If a Request Environment is...

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RubyLTS is a long term supported fork of Ruby 1.8 that will continue to receive security updates for the forseeable...

Simply give the select helper an option :disabled, passing either a single value or an array. You need to specify...

We tend to use database transactions as a magic bullet to get rid of all our concurrency problems. When things...

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Using CSS sprites for background images is a technique for optimizing page load time by combining smaller images into a...

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Next time you have to do more than trivial CSS changes on a project, you probably want to have live...

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Remember why preloading associations "randomly" uses joined tables or multiple queries? If you don't like the cleverness of this...

1. Saving files to a directory that is not shared between deploys or servers If you save your uploads to...

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Rails 4.0 is finally ready after a thorough process of betas and release candidates. It's an amazing new version...

This card shows how to upgrade a Rails 2 application from Rails 2.3.8 through every single patch level up to...

The Rails secret_token must be unique for each application and any instance of it. If not, someone could exploit...

ActionMailer per default uses http as protocol, which enables SSL-stripping. When a logged-in user follows an http link...

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Put the attached files into your home directory and enjoy. .irbrc defines interesting_methods, which is essentially all methods without...

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