Let's say you have a gem which has the following module: module SuperClient def self.foo 'Foo' end

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We want to keep a changelog for all gems we maintain. There are some good practices for writing a changelog...

At makandra, we've built a few gems over the years. Some of these are quite popular: spreewald (> 1M downloads...

If you want to fill in textareas with multiple lines of text (containing line breaks / new lines) you can use...

Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a nicer syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs. Leading zeros are important...

Just like Ruby Gems tag their version releases to the corresponding Git commit, it can be helpful to track production...

When your JavaScript bundle is so massive that you cannot load it all up front, I would recommend to load...

Webpacker uses Babel and Webpack to transpile modern JavaScript down to EcmaScript 5. Depending on what browser a project needs...

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Recent Bundler (1.16.1) started complaining about missing dependencies in the Gemfile. This is due to a stricter handling of specifications...

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This might be a known issue with Rubygems 2.5.1. This will help: gem update --system

You might have some trouble running a Rails LTS 2 app with MySQL 5.7. If you don't want to...

The httpclient gem comes with a custom SSL cert store. While an customizable, application-level cert store is great when...

You need to update a lof gems. Make sure you don't have any version constraints in your...

Bundler::GemRequireError: There was an error while trying to load the gem 'mysql2'. Gem Load Error is: Incorrect MySQL client...

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mysql> SELECT @@global.version; +------------------+ | @@global.version | +------------------+ | 5.6.30 | +------------------+ 1 row in set (0,00 sec) MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual says "BLOB and TEXT...

Use bundler > 1.15 to fix Gem::LOADED_SPECS_MUTEX (NameError). Given the following project: ruby -v ruby 1.8.7

When installing gems, a lot of time is spent building locally installed documentation that you probably never use.

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Katapult 0.3.0 brings Rails 5 and Ruby 2.5 support with a new design, plus a ton of smaller features, fixes...

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This error is raised because your old database does not have a configured environment yet, which Rails 5 enforces.

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Rails applications and ruby gems should have a README that gives the reader a quick overview of the project. Its...

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When writing XLSX files, there are gems like rubyXL or axlsx. While they do offer features like formatting or graphs...

Summary: Don't add chromedriver-helper to the Gemfile the executables might break your tests in projects where chromedriver-helper...

When attempting to update RubyGems, depending on updates your previously performed, you might run into an error ERROR: While executing...

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An end-to-end test (E2E test) is a script that remote-controls a web browser with tools like Selenium...