This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...

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Asset pipeline, HTTP streaming, jQuery as default framework, auto-reversable migrations, identity map for ActiveRecord. Ruby 1.8.x support will...

Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...

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Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide

We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...

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When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...

Although regular expression syntax is 99% interchangeable between languages, keep this in mind: By default, the dot character (".") does not...

We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...

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You know that you can collect an array as groups using in_groups or in_groups_of. Maybe you want...

Run rspec-and-cucumber from any project directory to run both RSpec and Cucumber. If available, rspec_spinner or cucumber...

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Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.

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Validations that need to access an associated object may lead to some trouble. Let's exemplify that using this example...

Ruby comes with a class BigDecimal which you can use for arbitrary precision arithmetic. You should use BigDecimal instead of...

When storing floating-point numbers such as prices or totals in an SQL database, always use a DECIMAL column. Never...

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Sass now comes with user-defined functions, keyword arguments, list manipulation. Haml and Sass are now two separate gems.

The Edge Rider gem will define a method collect_ids on your ActiveRecord models, scopes, integer scalars and collections, which...

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A capybara driver that uses WebKit via QtWebKit.

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Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as...

rdoc.rubyforge.org

Documentation for the horrible RDoc syntax.

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If you want to convert a README.rdoc file to HTML, say this from a shell: rdoc README.rdoc

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Ruby gem to check whether a given bic/account-no-combination can possibly be valid for a German bank. Can also resolve German...

If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console...

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Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...

User.active.to_sql Rails 2 Use either the Edge Rider or fake_arel gem to get #to_sql backported...