...the poor decisions made at every turn. “Why, oh why, is this built with Rails when Node.js would be so much better?” or “how could the previous developer not have...
...Windows VM copies them over a Samba share onto your machine. From inside your Rails project directory call regularly: geordi remove-executable-flags Runs chmod -x on Ruby, HTML, CSS...
...joins, ActiveRecord will make that record read-only. This is a protective measure by Rails because such a record might have some additional attributes that don't correspond to actual...
...to deliver a real Unit object, whereas form.select :unit_id, Unit.for_select will make Rails typecast the String value from the select field to the unit's ID...
Ancestry is a gem/plugin that allows the records of a Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord model to be organised as a tree structure (or hierarchy). It uses a single, intuitively formatted...
In Rails, you can very easily send emails with HTML and plaintext bodies. However, if you're trying to debug those using your normal email account, you might be out...
...to whatever you like (by returning old_value you'd get the behavior of Rails' reverse_merge!, by returning new_value you'd get the behavior of standard merge!).
...of workers to 1 and the other requests have to wait. UNICORN_WORKERS=1 rails server
In the ruby shell (IRB) and rails console the return value of the previous command is saved in _ (underscore). This might come in handy if you forgot to save the...
...Ruby couterpart. Thus, it does a great job as YAML-doc, e.g. when writing Rails locale files. Did you know that ... << is a merge key (similar to & in SASS)
...to remember the password, give a form an autocomplete attribute with the value off: ... Rails example form_for @model, :html => { :autocomplete => "off" } do |form...
Under certain circumstances gettext_i18n_rails will hit a near-infinite loop. This occured in Rails 2.3.5 with Haml 3.0.18 and fast_gettext 0.5.10. gettext_i18n_rails's Haml-Parser...
...on our radar for a while. They seem to have made significant progress running Rails, reducing start-up time and becoming runtime-independent of the JVM. Also see Running Optcarrot...
If you have a file that looks like a precompilation fingerprint, the Rails asset pipeline will not see it. So don't have filenames like this: 8e21264d-f678-4005-b90c-8d8288a0d179.ttf
...t say is_a?(ActiveRecord::NamedScope::Scope) because that is no longer true in Rails 3 and also doesn't match unscoped ActiveRecord classes themselves (which we consider scopes for...
...remember to set your values with field=#{quoted_true} and field=#{quoted_false}. The Rails methods quoted_false and quoted_true return the correct boolean representations for your database...
When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use respond_to. I've too often seen code like this...
...sub directories, make sure to add -r features to the standard Cucumber options. In Rails apps, Cucumber options are likely to be stored in config/cucumber.yml...
...won't notice it during development. But with caching active (on production or staging) Rails will write an empty all.js file without complaining...
...Sass and Less files, so the theme can easily be integrated into your usual Rails application. Implements only Bootstrap features which means that some Material stuff is missing, but also...
...outputs a Rack application which you can either serve standalone or mount into your Rails app...
...User.any_instance.stub(...) Note: You won't have RSpec 2.6 if you're still working on Rails...
This is what worked for me in a Rails 4: # JSON data as first argument, then parameters patch :update, { some: 'data' }.to_json, id: id, format: :json
Ruby 1.9.2 is very slow when loading files, especially starting Rails servers or running specs takes forever. Do yourself a favor and upgrade to...