When your Rails controller action responds with only a simple text, render text: 'Hello' may not be what you want. You should not even use it on Rails 4.1+ any...
By default, a "text" response from a Rails controller will still be a sent as text/html: render text: 'Hello' response.body # => "Hello" response.content_type # => "text/html" While this may not be...
...opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines https://www.merixstudio.com/blog/best-practices-rest-api-development/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/rest-api-design/9781449317904/ More topics in our deck: Rails: Rest API post-mortem analysis InfoQ: How to Design a Good API & Why it Matters
...49/65) travis-lint... Slow requires: 110.21 render_anywhere 147.33 nokogiri 173.83 haml 179.62 sass-rails 205.04 delayed_job_active_record 286.76 rails 289.36 mail 291.98 capistrano 326.05 delayed_job...
...iconfont-plugin-webpack that automate the font building. If you're still using the Rails asset pipeline, try the half-automatic approach. Webpacker Rails: How to integrate the plugin
Obviously, this leads to problems when comparing strings: "Über".downcase == "über" => false In Rails you can use ActiveSupports' multibyte chars to avoid that problem. It gives you a wrapped...
Now supports RSpec 3 and Rails 4 Drops support for state_machine, which has some issues with Rails 4 and isn't actively maintained
[mysqld] sql_mode="" Now restart MySQL: sudo service mysql restart For a single Rails project If you only want to change the SQL mode for one project, you can...
...last_synchronized_at: nil, } } ) def validate_analytic_stats_against_json_schema @schema ||= File.read(File.join(Rails.root, 'app', 'models', 'project', "analytic_stats_schema_v#{analytics_stats_version}.json")) analytic_stats_errors = JSON...
...You can "fix" this in multiple ways: Update your drivers on your machine with RAILS_ENV=test rake webdrivers:chromedriver:update Ignore the driver update-URL in your VCR configuration...
...and see if VCR complains: WD_CACHE_TIME=1 bundle exec cucumber Note: Newer Rails versions come with the webdrivers gem automatically...
...cassette for the request that fails Copy the request with all parameters Open a rails console, assign the request to a variable and unescape it: my_project> var = "%5B%7B...
...LIKE only takes a fraction of a second. This means when optimizing a typical Rails action, you should probably look further than the database. A view can easily take many...
...often times the results of such subtractions go into a view. When upgrading a Rails application from Ruby 1.8 to 1.9, this will cause significant pain, and under most circumstances...
...a model Signature with name: string, signature: text, you can use it with regular rails form like this: - form_for @signature, :html => { :class => 'signature_form' } do |form| %dl %dt = form.label...
...cache_or_resolve :var, :some_expensive_calculation end This is what "memoize" in earlier rails versions did. There is a gem that reintroduces this behavior, but this is the essential...
In Ruby on Rails, all objects have a useful blank? method. It returns true for nil but also for empty strings or empty arrays. There is also a universal method...
...When dealing with geo data, you'd often use acts_as_geocodable for your Rails applications. There you can just use your model's upgraded find to achieve the same...
...for your application's bit of metaprogramming. It may matter for a framework like Rails, and for methods that are called really often, but that is not your everyday code...
...into position[]=13&position[]=15, which neatly resolves to params[:position] == [13, 15] in Rails. Broken placeholder height When a dragged row does not have a set height but rather...
...it really hard to make this work reliably. Also see Dynamically uploading files to Rails with jQuery File Upload...
...to invalidate Cloudfront cached assets, and Cloudfront will ignore the usual ?123456 timestamps that Rails uses by default. So to make sure Cloudfront will not server outdated assets, you have...
...builds/webpack-resolver -- failed pretty hard for Webpack 2. The following works for Ruby on Rails with Webpacker / Webpack 2. Do not use the ace-builds NPM package, because you won...
...for cronjobs, the "craken" plugin, is no longer maintained and does not work on Rails 3.2+. We will instead use the whenever gem. "Whenever" works just like "craken", by putting...
...param is a string and you don't get the magic type casting that Rails would give you if it was an actual database column. E.g. when you set an...
...has enabled the only_full_group_by setting by default to prevent this. In Rails this could lead to some trouble, because scopes do not have specific select columns in...