Goal Within before_* Within after_* Cancel later callbacks throw :abort throw :abort Rollback the transaction throw :abort raise ActiveRecord::Rollback...
If you're still working on ruby 1.8, you should know that using SimpleDelegator is often prohibitively slow. I have...
# Attach a file # # Example: # # Company.new.logo = File.new… # # Given the file "…" was attached as logo to the company above # # # Example: # # class Gallery...
Say you have a User with a Carrierwave attribute #avatar: class User < ActiveRecord::Base mount_uploader :avatar, AvatarUploader end
Rubymine supports keybinding to switch panes by hotkey like awesome window manager users are used to. Type "splitter" in the...
When you want to find out the data type of an attribute, you can just use ActiveRecord's columns_hash...
Ruby publishes security issues and MRI updates on ruby-lang.org. Unfortunately there is no straight-forward way to subscribe to these...
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64, Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.13, PDFKit 0.5.4, Phusion Passenger Apache 2 I ran into this, when I...
After reading, you will know why and how runners.each(&:run) works. Here some tidbits: & can be quite confusing because it...
It's mixins (modules) for Coffeescript classes. Other than most homegrown approaches, this one allows you to keep using super...
Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
A snippet of the carrierwave documentation You might come to a situation where you want to retroactively change a version...
Today I ran into trouble installing therubyracer on Ruby 1.8. The installation failed with *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile...
If you need to enable NewRelic monitoring on certain machines within the same Rails environment, a simple solution is to...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
You're better off using debugger-ruby_core_source: gem install debugger-ruby_core_source If you can't do...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
The default configuration of Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. If you accidentally forget to send the CSRF token for...
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...
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...
The mysql2 gem in version 0.3.13 might break while compiling on older patch releases of Ruby 1.9.3 within rvm:
Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...