Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here is how to update affected projects. Update (or create) .firefox...

...run tests with Geordi, it will tell you how to install it. On a Rails 2 project: Update your Cucumber-related gems as described in Upgrading Cucumber and Capybara, including...

...print, if present requires interactive_editor, if present (basically makes vim available) loads .irbrc_rails if in Rails (e.g. for the Rails console) .irbrc_rails defines efind(email), which is...

...to find users by email requires hirb, if present set the prompt to your Rails app's name Of course you can put anything into these files...

...all styling inline, which means you'll have to do your styling inline. For Rails applications, you can use Roadie or premailer, which lets you keep your well-structured CSS...

...passive maintenance mode, we go with premailer: Include premailer in your Gemfile: gem 'premailer-rails' In your ApplicationMailer define the mailer layout: layout 'mailer' To get the mailer stylesheet (and...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I started using passenger to deal with the Single Thread Issue...

...wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf Tell PDFKit where to find your wkhtmltopdf: Rails::Initializer.run do |config| require "pdfkit" config.middleware.use PDFKit::Middleware PDFKit.configure do |config| config.wkhtmltopdf = '/usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf' # <-- the fix...

...following helper. def greeting message = ''.html_safe message << 'Welcome to ' message << content_tag(:span, Rails.env, class: 'greeting--location') content_tag :div, message, class: 'greeting' end That looks clumsy and is...

...say something like this? def greeting render_haml <<-HAML .greeting Welcome to %span.greeting--location = Rails.env HAML end It would be, and you can have it, too. You simply need to...

...like to split a Ruby array into pairs of two, you can use the Rails ActiveSupport method in_groups_of: >> [1, 2, 3, 4].in_groups_of...

...split a Ruby array into a given number of groups, you can use the Rails ActiveSupport method in_groups: >> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6].in_groups...

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve boot-up time for Rake and similar. You need to...

rake is a function rake () ... Next, try running rake routes on a Rails 4.1+ project -- the 2nd time should be significantly faster. On older projects you should always...

SSHKit 1.9.0 might fail with the following error, when trying to deploy a Rail application. Upgrading the gem to version 1.21.0 fixed the issue. Traceback (most recent call last...

...the need to enter user and password, you can say the following in any Rails 2 project: script/dbconsole -p In Rails 3 you can say: rails dbconsole -p

JavaScripts and CSS should be minified for production use. In Rails 3.1+ the asset pipeline will take care of this. Thus you're best off using an uncompressed version of...

...be easier and you will still get all the minification love once deployed. In Rails 2.3 and 3.0 you should at least embed external JavaScript libraries in minified form, using...

Provide a stable API for working with scopes across multiple versions of Rails, since Rails has a tradition of breaking details of its scope API every other release...

DETAIL: There is 1 other session using the database. This could be the rails server, rubymine and many more. Beside terminating the session connection manually you can also find...

...out the pid and kill the process. 1. rails db 2. SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; datid | 98359 datname | foo_development pid | 21633 usesysid | 16384 usename | username application_name | DataGrip...

I got this error when running Rails 2.3 tests for Rails LTS. More stacktrace: NoMethodError: undefined method `cache' for Gem:Module /vagrant/rails-2-3-lts-repository/railties/lib/rails_generator/lookup.rb:212:in `each' /vagrant/rails-2-3-lts-repository/railties/lib/rails_generator/lookup.rb:146:in `to_a...

...scenario, the code below lets you write this: Given my IP address is 188.174.117.205 Rails 3 Given /^my IP address is "(.*?)"$/ do |ip| ActionDispatch::Request.any_instance.stub(:remote_ip).and_return(ip...

Rails 2 You will need the following step definitions: Given /^my IP address is (\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)$/ do |ip| ApplicationController.stubbed_request_ip = ip end After do ApplicationController.stubbed_request...

...up 20160517112656 Migrate pages to page versions up 20160518112023 ********** NO FILE ********** When you tell Rails to roll back, it tries to roll back the latest change that was migrated. In...

...have the corresponding migration file for. Hence, it can not be rolled back and Rails aborts silently. This happens for example when you migrated on the master branch at some...

Before Rails 3.2.14, when supplying an invalid locale to I18n, it would fall back to its config.i18n.default_locale (which is :en by default). Eventually, this will be changed to raise...

...an error by default -- for now, it shows a deprecation warning. Since Rails 3.2.14 and 3.2.15 did not include security updates, you might not have applied them and probably now...

You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send the CSRF token for non-GET requests, your tests will...

...your application is completely broken (a failed CSRF check usually logs out the user). Rails probably does this because CSRF protection sort of requires Javascript. You want to enable CSRF...

We upgraded a Rails 2 application to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.1, changed the mysql adapter from mysql to mysql2, but did not activitate the asset pipeline. Instead we used...

...ruby with something like user_ids = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_values(Message.select(:user_id).to_sql) # Rails 2 user_ids = Message.all.pluck(:user_id) # Rails 3+ User.where(:id => user_ids).update_all(:has...

I believe that when WEBrick has trouble bringing up your Rails application, the WEBrick component that is supposed to print you a pretty error message has a bug and sometimes...

...pointed to the actual problem. Possible causes discovered by looking at the logs A Rails plugin would require the sqlite3 gem, but that gem wasn't in the Gem bundle...

...which requires ApplicationController when loaded. When your ApplicationController requires later-loaded gems when loaded, Rails will not boot. Here is an example for an ApplicationController requiring Aegis::Controller from the...

...In this case aegis must be listed before resource_controller in your Gemfile or Rails will not boot...

...all will run all RSpec examples and Cucumber features. The report will be written RAILS_ROOT/coverage/index.html. Here is what the task does in detail: Generates aggregated coverage of both RSpec...

Works with Rails 2 and Rails 3 Reports for app/**/*.rb and nothing else If called with an environment variable IGNORE_SHARED_TRAITS=true it ignores Modularity traits...

...you need to make a static web page and find yourself missing all your Rails comforts, take a look at StaticMatic. This works like an extremely stripped down version of...

...Rails, giving you HAML SASS helpers partials When done, everything is simply compiled to static HTML and CSS, so no need to install anything on your server. If you receive...