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stdgems.org

Ruby's standard library is in the process of being gemified. It will soon - Ruby 2.5 - consist of RubyGems, which...

By default Middleman generates files with a .html extension. Because of this all your URLs end in /foo.html instead of...

Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.

Dump this method into your Ruby console to quickly print data in columns. This is helpful for e.g. comparing attributes...

Database connections are not thread-safe. That's why ActiveRecord uses a separate database connection for each thread.

In case you want to require a gem, that is not in the Gemfile of you bundle and therefore not...

This card compares patterns to store trees in a relation database like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Implementation examples are for the...

jetbrains.com

RubyMine provides a visual tool for resolving merge conflicts locally. Follow Git > Resolve Conflicts in the context menu to open...

github.com

The parallel-gem is quite easy to use and can speed up rendering time if you want to render the...

blog.jetbrains.com

RubyMine allows bookmarking lines of code. This is super-helpful when working on a complex problem. I've been using...

Sass lets you easily specify multiple selectors at once like this: .some-block &.has-hover, &:hover outline: 1px solid red...

ImageMagick has a command line tool called identify which can read image metadata: >identify -verbose DSC00136.JPG Image: DSC00136.JPG Format: JPEG...

Note: The behaviour of Spreewald's within step is as described below for version < 1.9.0; For Spreewald >= 1.9.0 it is...

github.com

Barby is a great Ruby gem to generate barcodes of all different sorts. It includes support for QR codes via...

This is not an issue in newer versions of HAML (starting with 5.0.0), as the ugly-option was removed...

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activestate.com

Looks like ActiveState is trying to market a new Ruby distribution for Enterprises: ActiveRuby Enterprise Edition is designed for businesses...

There are various ways to run external commands from within Ruby, but the most powerful ones are Open3.capture3 and Open3.popen3...

manpages.ubuntu.com

run-one is a wrapper script that won't run the given command while another instance of it is running...

github.com

/home/.../ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/bundler-1.14.3/lib/bundler/rubygems_ext.rb:45:in `full_gem_path': uninitialized constant Bundler::Plugin::API::Source (NameError) Solution: Upgrade Rubygems beyond 2.6.9...

Sometimes your code has long lines: describe 'foo' do describe 'bar' do really_long_line_really_long_line_really_long...

stackoverflow.com

window.getSelection().toString(); Browser support: IE9+, Android 4.3+, Safari 5+

developer.mozilla.org

You can easily have a JavaScript hash/object that returns a default value for unset keys/properties -- as long as you need...

There seems to be a nasty bug in Chrome 56 when testing with Selenium and Capybara: Slashes are not written...