Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...
UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.
RVM needs to be updated regularly to know of Ruby versions released since installation (or last update).
In our continued quest to extract proven code snippets from makandropedia into tested and upgradable gems, we have released Edge...
The Edge Rider gem gives your relations a method #traverse_association which returns a new relation by "pivoting" around a...
TLDR: Ruby class variables (@@foo) are dangerous in many ways. You should avoid them at all cost. See bottom of...
When creating an ActiveRecord with .new, .create or create!, you cannot set the ID attribute (note: When using Machinist's...
You probably know that you can use CSS selectors to match against elements and their attributes, such as:
You can use the content CSS attribute to set an element's content -- which is especially useful for the :before...
Since I'm a software architect and a web developer, I get often approached by people with their new ideas...
A tooltip library that does not use Javascript. Works in IE9+. This library (or the technique used by it) could...
Ruby has two different ways to match the start and the end of a text: ^ (Start of line) and $ (End...
Microsoft provides virtual machines for different Internet Explorer versions. The images are available for various virtualization solutions, including VirtualBox...
When you accept a table in your Cucumber step definition, that table object will have the cryptic type Cucumber::Ast...
January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote...
Consul 0.6.1+ gives your Power class a number of static methods that behave neutrally in case Power.current is nil. This...
Consul 0.6.1+ gives you a way to dynamically access and query powers for a given name, model class or record...
We recently had a problem on a Memcache cluster, where one of the servers showed a significantly worse cache hit...
validates_uniqueness_of is not sufficient to ensure the uniqueness of a value. The reason for this is that in...
The attached article outlines considerations when choosing client-side vs. server-side implementations of the Google Geocoding APIs (geocoder, directions...
Mobile browser's ignore the autoplay attribute on and elements. Stupid reasons include saving mobile bandwidth on behalf of the...
Calling bundle update GEMNAME will update a lot more gems than you think. E.g. when you do this...
The Out-of-Band Work feature allows one to perform arbitrary long-running work outside the request/response cycle without blocking...
If you worked with a system Ruby before switching to RVM, this system Ruby will be in your way when...