When you are calling a method that may raise an exception that you don't care about, you might think...

This card shows you how to format a card's content using Markdown. We use the Commonmarker interpreter, so here...

Undeterministically I got a nil error on saving the object caused by the random order of hash elements of the...

Let's say you need to revert a migration that happened a while back. You'd create a new migration...

You are looking for a functionality in RubyMine but don't know or remember its keyboard shortcut or which menu...

RubyMine offers you to exclude directories from search, meaning faster search results and less "noise" in the list of result...

When updating WebMock, be prepared that your specs may send real requests into the depths of the internet unless you...

When your model is using a callback like before_save or before_validation to calculate an aggregated value from its...

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The handy method has_select?(field, :selected => text) does not behave as expected with Cucumber 0.10.2, Capybara 0.4.1.2 and Selenium...

Imagine you have 2 HTML boxes. The first one has a margin-bottom of let's say 30px and the...

Delegating methods to other objects is often helpful but the syntax of both def_delegators and def_delegator is a...

In MySQL comparing zero to a string 0 = "any string" is always true! So when you want to compare a...

When your gems complain about invalid gemspecs and illformed requirements, it is most probably an error resulting from the transition...

REST Client is a nice, simple HTTP client library for Ruby. When you do a simple GET request like that...

Don't you just hate to write Cucumber path helpers to be able to say this?

The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column: User.find_by_anything('carla...

In order to save the original value of a constant, set the new value and restore the old value after...

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Copy the attached file to config/initializers/indent_string.rb and you can say "foo".indent(4) # " foo" Note you will find many simpler...

Imagine you have a piece of code that tries to send a request to a remote server. Now the server...

Tooltips that are delivered through HTML attributes are encoded. Decode entities before checking for their presence. Capybara: Then /^there should...

Sometimes it might be helpful to have a version history for a gem, e.g. when you want to see if...

Ever seen this error when using Graticule? Numerical argument out of domain - acos Similarly to the to_sql problem for...

You can use text-overflow to truncate a text using CSS but it does not fit fancy requirements.

When using Rails to truncate strings, you may end up with strings that are still too long for their container...