Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
You're better off using debugger-ruby_core_source: gem install debugger-ruby_core_source If you can't do...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
Establishing a new SSH connection usually takes only a few seconds, but if you’re connecting to a server multiple...
If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...
There may be reasons to change the locale of your Postgres cluster. A popular one is your development system's...
If your XFCE renders text with overly hard, thin lines instead of smooth anti-aliased lines, you might need to...
Working with lists in Javascript is painful because the native Array class is so poorly designed. One way to reduce...
Presentation about awesome changes we can look forward to.
So you're switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL? Here is some help... General hints on PostgreSQL \? opens the command overview...
The mysql2 gem in version 0.3.13 might break while compiling on older patch releases of Ruby 1.9.3 within rvm:
Since we are migrating from our homegrown mixins.sass and helpers.sass to Compass, here is a list of all the mixins...
With Rails 4, Concerns have become the “official” solution to the big-models problem. However, there’s a fair amount...
Long list of fonts suitable for coding. With screenshots.
Angular comes with different types of services. Each one with its own use cases. All of these services are singletons...
We’ve been working on one of our first Angular projects with a Rails backend. It’s been a great...
Do not use .rvmrc files to specify Ruby version and gemset configuration any longer, it's deprecated and not considered...
For all late night coders: The program "redshift" changes your monitors' white balance according to your position on the planet...
After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.
We sometimes send calender data or tasks using iCalendar (ICS) via eMail as specified in RFC 5545. Recently, a customer...
The translation method translate and its alias t have bang brothers: translate! and t!. They will raise I18n::MissingTranslationData on...