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...
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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
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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...
If you want to make a screenshot of a website that works well in print or on a high-DPI...
When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use...
I recently had fun with replacing a custom video plattform ("mycustomtv") in one of our applications. I learned a lot...
Generating a project README Finally: Support for modelling associations between models in your application model! Example: # lib/katapult/application_model.rb
Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch...