Recent Bundler (1.16.1) started complaining about missing dependencies in the Gemfile. This is due to a stricter handling of specifications...
Lets say we have a user with a contract whereas contract is a mounted carrierwave file. Now we want to...
This might be a known issue with Rubygems 2.5.1. This will help: gem update --system
CSS Flexbox has become extremely popular amongst front-end developers the last couple of years. This isn’t surprising, as...
When you need test images, instead of using services like lorempixel or placehold.it you may generate test images yourself.
The attached article explains options you have to store the order of items in a database table. The simplest solution...
When you find yourself constantly ignoring a RubyMine warning, you can simple disable that warning and de-clutter your editor...
geordi delete_dumps [directory] Recursively search for files ending in *.dump and offer to delete those. When no...
You might have some trouble running a Rails LTS 2 app with MySQL 5.7. If you don't want to...
On your local system that only hosts non-critical development data and only you have access to, you can store...
Rails offers a way to prepend (or append) view paths for the current request. This way, you can make the...
The httpclient gem comes with a custom SSL cert store. While an customizable, application-level cert store is great when...
When you have string contents (e.g. a generated binary stream, or data from a remote source) that you want to...
You need to update a lof gems. Make sure you don't have any version constraints in your...
See the attached link for a list of icons in Font Awesome 4. Icon names work differently in Font Awesome...
We often use the Then console step from spreewald in combination with geordi vnc from geordi to debug tests within...
In Spreewald 1.10.4+, nested patiently blocks are now patient. Here is an example: patiently do outer_code patiently do
Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...
Your default postgres user is named like your linux user. That default user has limited access privileges, which can cause...
Bundler::GemRequireError: There was an error while trying to load the gem 'mysql2'. Gem Load Error is: Incorrect MySQL client...
Trying to open a vnc window with geordi geordi vnc ended up with this error: > VNC viewer could not be...
Use bundler > 1.15 to fix Gem::LOADED_SPECS_MUTEX (NameError). Given the following project: ruby -v ruby 1.8.7
When your Rails controller calls render, you can pass a :status option for the HTTP status code: render 'results', status...
Here is how to use Chromedriver without libraries like selenium-webdriver. This can be useful for debugging. The following example...