Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.
Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a...
There is a nasty bug in all version of Rails 2 and some versions of Rails 3.x where two...
When you write a custom RSpec matcher a good place to store them is to create one file per matcher...
To test whether a hash includes an expected sub-hash: expect(user.attributes).to match(hash_including('name' => 'Bruce Wayne'))
When using ActionMailer, you can set an array of email addresses as recipients. If this array is generated by e.g...
Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...
The information in this card is only relevant for Rails 2.3-era apps. This note gives a quick introduction into...
If you just upgraded to Bundler 10.0.10 you might get the following error when bringing up Rails: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in...
Note that you cannot currently use Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2 applications that use RSpec, so don't upgrade if...
Sometimes you can make your life easier by not allowing a record attribute to be changed after the record was...
List of global variables available to a Ruby script.
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
The shell variable PS1 holds your bash prompt. You might want to change it to serve your needs best. Here...
Now allows to list transition paths from and to arbitrary states.
Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions. Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated. Please...
If in your application your users pass along params that result in filenames, like invoices/generated?number=123. This could be...
Pie sometimes does not properly redraw elements upon changes. This often happens when the change comes from somewhere further up...
The attached RSpec matcher exist_in_database checks if a given record still exists in the database and has not...
When you need to insert many records into the same table, performance may become an issue. What you can do...
We are maintaining some vintage projects with tests written in Test::Unit instead of RSpec. Mocks and stubs are not...
Depending on where you live, different rules are used to determine the number of the week and a weekday. You...
You can find ActiveRecord models by using a Range as its conditions: User.scoped(:conditions => { :id => 3..5 }) This will generate...
When you click a link or a press a button on a Selenium-controlled browser, the call will return control...