Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...

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rjb.rubyforge.org

rjb is a bridge software. It connects Ruby and Java.

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You can write regular expressions some different ways, e.g. /regex/ and %r{regex}. For examples, look here. Remember that it...

gnuu.org

YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just...

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ruportbook.com

Ruport’s acts_as_reportable module provides support for using ActiveRecord for data collection. You can use it to get...

github.com

home_run is an implementation of ruby’s Date/DateTime classes in C, with much better performance (20-200x) than...

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A fake filesystem. Use it in your tests.

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Ancestry is a gem/plugin that allows the records of a Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord model to be organised as a...

Until May 2011 our gems have been created with Jeweler, which is a helper library to package code into a...

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To test concurrent code, you will need to run multiple threads. Unfortunately, when you use blocking system calls (e.g. locks...

When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...

To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...

To run a single test file: rake test:units TEST=test/unit/post_test.rb rake test:functionals TEST=test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb rake test:integration TEST...

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Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]

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rdoc.info

Ruby Rails Any gem

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github.com

Cerberus is a lightweight and easy-to-use Continuous Builder software for Ruby. It could be run periodically from a...

wonko.com

Given a list of acceptable elements and attributes, Sanitize will remove all unacceptable HTML from a string.

railstips.org

Awesome library to consume web services in Ruby.

railscheck.rubyforge.org

This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...

rubyrailways.com

I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other...

agileweboperations.com

I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of...

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sinatra.github.com

Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web-applications in Ruby with minimal effort.

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faker.rubyforge.org

Faker, a port of Data::Faker from Perl, is used to easily generate fake data: names, addresses, phone numbers, etc...