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Backbone plugin to override getters and setters with logic.

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Essential backports that enable many of the nice features of Ruby 1.8.7 up to 2.0.0 for earlier versions.

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Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...

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MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...

If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...

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Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...

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UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.

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Awesome color schemes for RubyMine, Sublime Text 2 and other editors. To install the themes into your Rubymine, copy intellij...

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Axlsx is an incredible gem to generate "Office Open XML" spreadsheet files (XLSX). Does not break on large spreadsheets and...

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Tracekit is a JavaScript library that automatically normalizes and exposes stack traces for unhandled exceptions across the 5 major browsers...

When you have a Pull Request on GitHub that includes commits from another Pull Request, you will still see them...

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Great solution in a GitHub issue.

For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...

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I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take...

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As the title says: this jQuery plugin creates bar charts from HTML tables. It comes in some different flavors.

Cucumber_rails' old-school web-steps have been deprecated for a while, urging developers to write high-level step definitions...

There is no reason to leave trailing whitespace characters in your project's files, so don't add any.

The ActionMailer in Rails 2 depends on a buggy version of TMail, which sometimes inserts a blank line into the...

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Internet Explorer until version 9 has some limitations when parsing CSS files Summarized, these are: Up to 31 CSS files...

Makandra cards will auto-detect the language used for syntax highlighting. This auto-detection sometimes fails for short code snippets...

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Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...

This script loads a dump into your development database. You can provide the full path to you database dump like...

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Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications...