If you worked with a system Ruby before switching to RVM, this system Ruby will be in your way when...
Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool (ab) is a nice tool to test performance on sites delivered by HTTP. If the...
If you use Tempfile and pass your own filename containing an extension, it will just be consumed by the Tempfile...
Use Socket.gethostname. So for a machine whose hostname is "happycat", it will look like this: >> Socket.gethostname => "happycat" That should work...
While you are probably using will_paginate to paginate ActiveRecord scopes, it can actually paginate plain Ruby arrays. The resulting...
With the impending release of Ruby on Rails 4, it looks like a lot of developers will be updating their...
I’ve worked on huge applications in Ruby and Rails before. I very much want to believe in DCI, but...
You can define methods in any example group using Ruby's def keyword or define_method method: describe "example" do...
When you are using git rebase and are currently editing a commit (due to a conflict, for example), you may...
If you ever wondered why a constant wasn't defined or wasn't available where you expected it to be...
jquery-timing is a very useful jquery plugin that helps to remove lots of nested anonymous functions. It's API...
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Great solution in a GitHub issue.
When searching for text in a MySQL table, you have two choices: The LIKE operator FULLTEXT indexes (which currently only...
Static error pages To add a few basic styles to the default error pages in Rails, just edit the default...
If - for whatever reason - you have to render stylesheets dynamically, the following snippet might be of help. It emulates what...
You know that you can force absolute URLs throughout a response. Now you want to modify URLs similarly, but only...
navy 0.5.1+ gives empty navigation containers a CSS class .navy-empty which you can hide via .navy-navigation &.navy-empty...
Hopefully you are using Psych for everything, but if you have legacy Syck YAML files lying around you could be...
For two years we've been using SearchableTrait which gives models the ability to process Googlesque queries like this: Contact.search...
Xfce gives you a million options to configure your panels. Together with Xfce's sometimes arcane configuration UI, this can...
So you are debugging like a boss and lost track of where you actually are in your code? No problem...
I am talking about development speed. When your application starts growing and you start adding gems, it starts to take...
The gem author Jonas Nicklas highlights in a Google Groups post that the release is not backwards compatible to 1...