...your remote database, you might not want it to dump each time you deploy (say, you're experimenting with staging and don't want ten dumps an hour). How to...
...skip dump creation: Capistrano 2 In your Capistrano file: before 'deploy:update_code', 'db:dump' unless fetch(:skip_dump, false) The second parameter of fetch sets a default value if...
...that happens on your local machine Manually remove the offending's gem files and specifications. The paths will be something like /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/your-broken-gem and /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/specifications/your-broken-gem Update Rubygems or Slimgems by running...
...gem update --system Run bundler on your project to reinstall the offending gem. If this happens to your during deployment Ask your operations team to do it. After the update...
On application servers, gems are usually bundled into the project directory, at a location shared across deployments. This is usually shared/bundle inside your project's root directory, e.g. /var/www/your-project/shared/bundle/.
When you are changing the version of RubyGems or Bundler on a system where gems are installed this way, you must wipe that bundle directory in addition to...
When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data shared between threads, or by only using immutable data structures...
...Ruby core classes like String or Array are not immutable. There are several gems providing thread-safe collection classes in Ruby. concurrent-ruby The concurrent-ruby gem provides thread-safe...
This post is not about devops, it's not about lean startups, it's not about web scale, it's not about the cloud, and it's not about continuous...
Field error steps Spreewald's The...
...field should have an error and The...
...field should have the error...
...steps now have built-in support for Rails and Bootstrap (v3-v5...
...error classes. When using Bootstrap, it is no longer necessary to overwrite the steps in your project. At the same time, support for formtastic has been removed as there were...
Let's say you have two XML strings that are ordered differently but you don't care about the order of attributes inside containers: a = ' batman secret ' b = ' secret batman...
...Working with plain string comparison is not helpful, of course: a == b => false Instead, you can use the Nori gem to convert your XML into a hash: xml_parser = Nori.new...
When you set both a record's association and that association's foreign key attribute, Rails does not realize you are talking about the same thing. The association change will...
...win in the next save, even if the foreign key attribute was changed after the association. As an example, assume you have these two models: class Group < ActiveRecord::Base
fake_stripe spins up a local server that acts like Stripe’s and also serves a fake version of Stripe.js, Stripe’s JavaScript library that allows you to collect your...
...customers’ payment information without ever having it touch your servers. It spins up when you run your feature specs, so that you can test your purchase flow without hitting Stripe...
...needed a way to make my apps full screen from bash scripts. There is no super-easy way, but it's not too hard either. Put the attached script into...
...e.g. /usr/local/bin and make it executable. Now you can call fullscreen Safari and Safari will go full screen. Notes This script needs activated access for assisting devices. Turn it on...
...can be especially painful when external code (read: gems) uses const_defined? to look something up and gets different results on different Rubies. Consider this: module Foo FOO = 42
end On Ruby 1.8, Bar won't have FOO defined as a constant since that's (even though it's accessible): 1.8.7 > Foo.const_defined? :FOO => true 1.8.7 > Bar.const_defined...
...capistrano_colors' end It's possible you need to do a bundle update net-ssh to get things running. Now double check that all your custom hooks are actually still...
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...association. For example you can put the blank form on top with the following snippet: actors = movie.actors actors.build actors.unshift(actors.pop(1)) # won't work with Rails 4+ Because build_for...
...one-to-many association collection object you only have to reorder the collection objects. Sorting with Rails 3+ = form.fields_for :children, @parent.children.sort_by(&:name) do |fieldsform...
...OPTS="--no-tcmalloc" rbenv install, but that would disable tcmalloc. Doing that, you might still encounter issues with ossl_ssl.c -- which is where I switched to the patched solution above...
...without_callbacks. There is no such thing in vanilla Rails 3. There is a gem sneaky-save that restores the missing functionality with a #sneaky_save method...
RSpec's let allows you to super into "outside" definitions, in parent contexts. Example: describe '#save' do subject { described_class.new(attributes) } let(:attributes) { title: 'Example', user: create(:user) } it 'saves' do...
...expect(subject.save).to eq(true) end context 'when trying to set a disallowed title' do let(:attributes) { super().merge(title: 'Hello') } # <== it 'will not save' do expect(subject.save).to eq...
String#indent is not a standard Ruby method. When you use it, be sure to know where this method comes from. Many Gems shamelessly define this method for internal usage...
...and you'll never know when it may be removed (since it's usually not part of the Gem's API). Unless you're using Rails 4 (which brings String...
...both column name and value are coming from user input and need to be sanitized. Unfortunately this works in SQLite but does not in MySQL: named_scope :filter, lambda { |attribute...
{ :conditions => [ 'articles.? = ?', attribute, value ] } } The solution is to use sanitize_sql_array like this: named_scope :filter, lambda { |attribute, value| { :conditions => sanitize_sql_array([ "`articles`.`%s` = '%s'", attribute, value...
To read the Rails session from a Rack middleware, use env['rack.session']. It's an ActionDispatch::Request::Session object. class MyMiddlware def initialize(app) @app = app end def call(env...
...status, headers, body = @app.call(env) session = env['rack.session'] Rails.logger.info("Value of session['foo'] is: " + session['foo'].inspect) [status, headers, body] end end You may not be able to write to...
...it's likely that your cucumber.yml is just fine but not your rerun.txt.\ This sometimes happens when running multiple Cucumber workers with parallel_tests that write into rerun.txt simultaneously -- ending...
...Just remove it and you are good to go again: rm rerun.txt Another possible solution is to have one rerun file per worker for which you'd need to modify...
Back in the old days, we couldn't do something like that: .foo { position: absolute; bottom: 0; /* This was bad: */ left: 10px; right: 10px; } Why? Because IE5 and IE6 (which...
...then) failed horribly trying to render it. I've now checked if this is still an issue with any browser that's not from the stone age. \
...because a printer's resolution is usually much higher than that of a computer screen. If an image absolutely must look awesome when printed, a solution is to embed the...
...image in much higher solution than needed (e.g. four times the horizontal resolution), then scale it down to the desired width using CSS. Note that this will slightly alter the...
Restricting access to cookies is essential for security in many web apps. For example, the session ID, the secret token used to identify a particular session, is typically stored in...
...a cookie. Cookies have several important settings. Previously, I discussed the secure flag. This time, let’s dive into the cookie domain. The cookie domain is an important security feature...