It can be useful to have a Ruby expression like condition ? positive_case : negative_case in MySQL queries:
[ ] [ ]= ** ! ~ + - * / % + - >> << & ^ | <= < > >= <=> == === != =~ !~ && || .. ... ? : = %= { /= -= += |= &= >>= <<= *= &&= ||= **= defined? not or and if unless while until begin/end For more information see Table 18.4 in The Pragmatic Programmer's...
A good tool to generate strong passwords and secrets is "apg". You can get it with sudo apt-get install...
Ruby gem that provides an AR-style interface for the Pivotal Tracker API.
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These steps are now part of Spreewald. This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:
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A popular ruby idiom I keep stumbling upon is def do_some_thing_for(values) values = Array(values)
Both these approaches will keep your GET parameters -- and will only work for GET requests. Capybara: When /^I reload the...
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With its you can switch the subject of an example to a method value of the current subject: describe Array...
This will not work (it always passes): Then the "Title" field should contain "" The value is turned into a regular...
For some reason you want to define a find condition in array form. And in that condition both column name...
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft...
When using virtual attributes, the attached trait can be useful to automatically copy errors from one attribute to another.
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Do that for noble reasons only.
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Getting started with Ruby extensions in C.
In modern Rails versions you can also use ActiveRecord's pluck method. User.active.pluck(:id) => [1, 5, 23, 42]
You should test the callback methods and its correct invocation in two separate tests. Understand the ActiveRecord note before you...