Edge Rider gives your relations a method #origin_class that returns the class the relation is based on.
React.js is a relatively new Javascript templating engine that has two-way-bindings like AngularJS or Batman. The interesting idea...
Spring is a Rails application preloader. When debugging e.g. the rails gem, you'll be wondering why your raise, puts...
MenuetOS is an Operating System in development for the PC written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language. Menuet64 is released...
Programatically invoke Rails generators Require the generator, instantiate it and invoke it (because generators are Thor::Groups, you need...
docopt helps you define interface for your command-line app, and automatically generate parser for it. docopt is based on...
Rubygems can produce lots of deprecation warnings, but sometimes, you cannot fix them. To have a tidy terminal with output...
If you want to label things with a color but don't actually care which cholor, you can use the...
So you have a restangular collection and you want to remove an element from it, after you've successfully deleted...
With this command you can initiate an application restart without touching restart.txt. Unlike touching restart.txt, this tool initiates the restart...
If you regularly get ActionView::MissingTemplate exceptions, maybe some bot visits your site requesting silly formats like: http://www.rails-app.com/makandra.html-username-2000...
better_errors is an awesome gem for enhanced error pages in development, featuring a live-REPL for some light debugging...
If you are using Angular and want something like Rails' simple_format which HTML-formats a plain-text input into...
Sometimes you may want to print files from the command line, especially when you have lots of them.
If you want to do JavaScript-style camelization, ActiveSupport's String#camelize method can actually help you out. Simply pass...
If you come across an (older) application that is using Prototype instead of jQuery, you may often see events bound...
Use the following command to test if a server (in this example: makandra.com on port 443) uses Perfect Forward Secrecy...
Enter the hostname of a server to test it for CVE-2014-0160.
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information...
When using TextMate2 with the cucumber bundle, it does not recognize step definitions (e.g. custom_steps.rb) as such but believes they...
A look at Prawn, PDFKit, and Wicked PDF
Splitting a long method into sub methods is easier in instances since it is in classes. Since...
I recently had a need to demonstrate a data-heavy application to potential customers. Demonstrating the application with bogus numbers...
We now have a gem that supports our form model approach.