Framework to write command-line apps in Ruby. Comes with a nice way of processing parameter options, some utility classes...
[1,2,3,4].sample # => e.g. 4 If you'd like to cheat and give different weights to each element...
When you use one line Ruby comments in ERB templates you should never do this (notice the whitespace in front...
The SQL code generated by Graticule's spherical distance computation is insufficient and can lead to NULL distances in edge...
Seems like a useful gem for cases where ActiveRecord is overkill but you don't want to do everything by...
Using rename_column, remove_column, etc. more than once in a migration makes that migration run slower than it should...
For performance improvements (and to remove the need for eager loading), the ActsAsTaggableOn gem supports caching your tag lists directly...
To use different Ruby versions on your computer you can use the Ruby Version Manager. It also allows you to...
"Classic" Excel (XLS) has a magic limit of 65535 rows per worksheet. This was fixed in XLSX but the version...
When you have objects in your database that hold latitude and longitude and you want to find others that are...
ActiveSupport's memoize has a dangerous feature you might not know about. Assume you have class DeepThought extend ActiveSupport::Memoizable...
require 'open-uri' File.open('/target/path/to/downloaded.file', "wb") do |file| file.write open('http://example.com/your.file').read end Basic Authentication
There are several options, but most of them are impractical. The best way is to use the :ruby filter:
After starting the Rails server in a freshly generated Rails 3.1 project you could see an error message such as...
Note: This applies specifically to MySQL. In PostgreSQL for example, this is not an issue. If you care about performance...
Clearance is a gem that provides authentication functionality (e.g. login, logout). This note explains, how the clearance login, logout and...
By default, Rails views escape HTML in any strings you insert. If you want to insert HTML verbatim, you need...
RSpec 1 (Rails 2) With the most recent spec_candy.rb helpers you can say: User.stub_any_instance(:foo => :bar) user = User.new...
The solution in this card is based on a stack overflow post by Leventix. If you need to make request...
While 2.0 will include a number of syntax changes, new features and general improvements, mentioned below, it is anticipated to...
First keep in mind that :dependent => :destroy hooks into before_destroy. So when you use other before_destroy callbacks the...
The most common use case for Ruby's #collect is to call a method on each list element and collect...
The Rails logger will store its content in a buffer and write it into the file system every 1000 lines...
In order to monitor a Rake task using God your Rake file must write a file with its process ID...