Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
A snippet of the carrierwave documentation You might come to a situation where you want to retroactively change a version...
Today I ran into trouble installing therubyracer on Ruby 1.8. The installation failed with *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile...
Search engines, such as Google and Bing are engineered to crawl static web pages, not javascript-heavy, client-side apps...
We proudly release our safe_cookies middleware into public beta and just published it on Github. Features are:
Motion is quickly becoming one of the most important emerging techniques in building a quality user experience on the web...
Advice for address forms that work with address structures from multiple countries.
If you need to enable NewRelic monitoring on certain machines within the same Rails environment, a simple solution is to...
Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home: Install mysql-sandbox...
When you build a link for an email body like this body = "Please click the following link" body << "http://posts/130...
Rails has always included a scaffold script that generates a default controller implementation for you. Unfortunately that generated controller is...
You're better off using debugger-ruby_core_source: gem install debugger-ruby_core_source If you can't do...
It is good programming practice to Don't Repeat Yourself (or DRY). In Ruby on Rails we keep our code...
Geordi 0.16+ supports running selenium tests with project-specific firefox versions. Just update the gem. It will still default to...
Establishing a new SSH connection usually takes only a few seconds, but if you’re connecting to a server multiple...
So you client has asked you to implement a row of buttons to like the URL on Facebook, Twitter and...
You might not know that Rails disables CSRF protection in tests. This means that if you accidentally forget to send...
Copy the attached file to features/support. This gets you a convenience method: Capybara.javascript_test? Is true for Selenium, capybara-webkit...
Chrome extension that shows all info from your rails log (like parameters, response times, view rendering times, DB requests) inside...
If you want to have routes that are only available in tests (e.g. for testing obscure redirects), you can use...
When writing Rails migrations to convert a string column to an integer you'd usually say: change_column :table_name...
I recently experienced the error ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql2::Error: closed MySQL connection. Apparently this happens when there is a timeout...
There may be reasons to change the locale of your Postgres cluster. A popular one is your development system's...
Working with lists in Javascript is painful because the native Array class is so poorly designed. One way to reduce...