You can freeze any Ruby object to prevent further modification. If you freeze an ActiveRecord and try to set an...
Rails comes with a Rake task notes that shows code comments that start with "TODO", "FIXME", or "OPTIMIZE".
In RSpec you can tag examples or example groups with any tags you like simply by saying describe ReportCreator, slow...
If you want to grow a Ruby Array, you might find out about #fill but it is not really what...
# Given the following models class Image < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :album_images has_many :albums, through: :album_images
To use a form model with devise, you can simply override #resource_class in a controller. A typical use case...
List of cloud services and SaaS with a free tier for developers or that are generally free for open source...
Fontawesome 4 has introduced new naming conventions that make it easy to retrieve variants of a given icon.
Starting from Rails 4.0, you can use a special form options helper called #collection_check_boxes. It behaves similar to...
When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data...
When ending a Selenium test Capybara resets the browser state by closing the tab, clearing cookies, localStorage, etc.
There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.
You know that ActiveRecord caches associations so they are not loaded twice for the same object. You also know that...
Now supports RSpec 3 and Rails 4 Drops support for state_machine, which has some issues with Rails 4 and...
Awesome hack by Tim VanFosson:
Instead of this: Image.order('images.created_at DESC') You can write this: Image.order(created_at: :desc) Not only do you not...
It's generally not trivial to change a datetime's seconds, minutes, etc in SQL. Here is how it works...
Today I learned that Ruby on Rails has shipped with a built-in slug generator since Rails 2.2:
Nested exceptions for Ruby: When you rescue an error and then re-raise your own, you don't have to...
Web applications can be used by multiple users at the same time. A typical application server like Passenger has multiple...
Clever hack using data-attributes to assign labels to cells. It's still a massive duplication of code (labels), but...
RSpec 3 has verifying doubles. This breed of mock objects check that any methods being stubbed are present on an...
If you need to log to a file you can use Ruby's Logger class: require 'logger'
Dusen (our search gem) is now capable of excluding words, phrases and qualified fields from search. E.g. search for