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...
When you run into time zone issues e.g. Given the time is "2011-11-11 11:11" but
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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...
If you need to test interaction with a remote API, check out the VCR gem as an alternative to Webmock...
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...
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...
If your XFCE renders text with overly hard, thin lines instead of smooth anti-aliased lines, you might need to...
Working with lists in Javascript is painful because the native Array class is so poorly designed. One way to reduce...
Presentation about awesome changes we can look forward to.
So you're switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL? Here is some help... General hints on PostgreSQL \? opens the command overview...
The mysql2 gem in version 0.3.13 might break while compiling on older patch releases of Ruby 1.9.3 within rvm:
Using text-transform: uppercase - especially on form labels - can cause you serious headaches in Selenium tests. Sometimes the web driver...
Since we are migrating from our homegrown mixins.sass and helpers.sass to Compass, here is a list of all the mixins...