Re-creating a complex ActiveRecord scenario quickly without setting up a full-blown Rails app can come in handy e.g...
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When you want to UPDATE a table with information from an associated table, you can JOIN the associated table into...
Several Rails migration methods accept index: true as an option to create an index. In some cases (like #add_column...
jquery-placeholder is a simple jQuery plugin that enables form placeholders in browsers that do not support them natively, i.e...
There are times when you have a chunk of text that you want to do something with, e.g. replace something...
It is a common misunderstanding that all [op]=-operators work the same way, but actually they don't. ||= and &&=
When using send_file (for example for attachments of any kind), make sure your application knows the correct mime types...
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There are some frontends available, but they all suck, are no longer maintained or are hard to install.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...