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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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github.com

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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makandracards.com

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...

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TL;DR: Bundler 2.0 will rename Gemfile to gems.rb and Gemfile.lock to gems.locked (sic). The old filenames will be supported...

There are several gems that make it easy to read and process xlsx files. Parsing the entire file at once...

You can use local copies of gems in your Gemfile like this: gem 'spreewald', path: '~/gems/spreewald' As soon as you...

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If you use the Better Errors gem, you will sometimes notice that it can be very slow. This is because...

Nowadays it is fairly easy to intercept and modify mails globally before they are sent. All you have to do...

Rails supports time zones, but there are several pitfalls. Most importantly because Time.now and Time.current are completely different things and...

You can use gem list to list all gems available from a remote gem server: gem list -r --clear-sources...

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Ruby's standard library is in the process of being gemified. It will soon - Ruby 2.5 - consist of RubyGems, which...

Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.