With ActiveSupport you can say: class Robot def self.likes_humans? 'Nope.' end delegate :likes_humans?, to: :class end Robot.likes_humans...

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Preview what your markdown would look like on Github. Helpful e.g. when writing or extending a Readme for your gem...

If you want to load an SQL dump from an ActiveRecord migration, you might find this to be harder than...

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In this post, I'll walk you through the four phases of the typical journey into coding and what you...

If you're getting this strange error message when setting debugging breakpoints, probably HAML is the culprit. Cause

I've pushed an update to Cucumber factory that simplifies working with FactoryGirl factories. Say you define a factory with...

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SVG files are often much larger than necessary, containing comments, metadata, hidden elements etc. Optimize them with this tool.

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To only stub a method call if a given argument is used, but use the default implementation for other arguments...

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Using uncountable resources is not recommended as it breaks Rails' magic, e.g. when using form_for. You'll always be...

If you get this error (probably because you want to load some modules): # modprobe xt_comment FATAL: Could not load...

I couldn't successfully execute a simple iptables command and got this error on an Ubuntu server: # /sbin/iptables -I INPUT...

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Geordi 1.0 features a command line application geordi, that holds most of Geordi's previous commands. New features

Add gem 'database_cleaner' to your Gemfile. Then: Cucumber & Rails 3+ # features/support/database_cleaner.rb DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:deletion) # clean once, now DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction...

When a gem author releases a new version to Rubygems, usually a tag with the version number (e.g. v1.2.0) is...

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Open Source Chrome Extension/App that can show you stories you're assigned over multiple projects and more.

If you paste multiple lines of text into a cell, Calc's AutoCorrect will change the first character of the...

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Jonas Nicklas, the author of Carrierwave and Capybara, has released Refile, a gem for handling file uploads in Rails. It...

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Then the "sorted" select should be sorted But the "unsorted" select should not be sorted

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Some insight into how browser rendering engines work. The article shows how the way you manipulate styles (and the DOM...

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Sequel is an awesome ORM such as ActiveRecord. The linked article describes how easily you can implement and use materialized...

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Want to find that repo you've starred some time ago again? Here's where to search for it.

When navigating back to a page that was received from a POST request, undesired side effects may happen. Therefore, modern...

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Just run git show branch:file. Examples: git show HEAD~:bin/command git show origin/master:../lib/version.rb

ImageMagick takes a string with several options when cropping an image. See the command line options for how to provide...