Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
The default configuration of Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. If you accidentally forget to send the CSRF token for...
Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside...
If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...
When writing Rails migrations to convert a string column to an integer you'd usually say: change_column :table_name...
I recently experienced the error ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql2::Error: closed MySQL connection. Apparently this happens when there is a timeout...
Working with lists in Javascript is painful because the native Array class is so poorly designed. One way to reduce...
So you're switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL? Here is some help... General hints on PostgreSQL \? opens the command overview...
Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...
Since we are migrating from our homegrown mixins.sass and helpers.sass to Compass, here is a list of all the mixins...
With Rails 4, Concerns have become the “official” solution to the big-models problem. However, there’s a fair amount...
The asset pipeline (which is actually backed by sprockets) has a nice feature where templates ending in .jst are compiled...
After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.
We sometimes send calender data or tasks using iCalendar (ICS) via eMail as specified in RFC 5545. Recently, a customer...
Preface: Normally, you would not need this in integrations tests (probably that's why it is so hard to achieve...
Consul 0.10.0 now allows multiple power mappings for nested resources. When using nested resources you probably want two power
When two elements with display: inline-block are sitting next to each other, whitespace between becomes a space character.
A list of FontAwesome icons in the form of copyable Unicode characters or HTML entities. You might prefer to use...
In order to keep the controllers directory tidy, we recently started to namespace controllers. With the :controller option you can...
When you're writing migrations that do more than changing tables (like, modify many records) you may want some output...
CSS3 comes with new unit rem. It works like em but it is always relative to the element instead of...