pivotallabs.com

One of the thornier problems in our workflow is knowing when assets are delivered from the designer and keeping them...

makandra dev

When installing RMagick you may get an error messages like this: Version 2.13.1: checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes

I prefer using Opera's "User mode" to toggle an outlining of HTML elements quickly. This helps greatly when you...

apidock.com

Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.

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github.com

Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a...

There is a nasty bug in all version of Rails 2 and some versions of Rails 3.x where two...

makandra dev

If there is some weird margin at the top of your page for no apparent reason, chances are one of...

benmabey.com

Bryan talked about the differences between imperative and declarative scenarios. In my opinion, both styles have benefits and should be...

joemaller.com

Google’s Font Directory and API for web fonts could have a transformative effect on how we read the web...

At times, it might be unavoidable to have different CSS rules for Internet Explorer than for sane browsers. Using Sass...

When using ActionMailer, you can set an array of email addresses as recipients. If this array is generated by e.g...

jeffkreeftmeijer.com

Back when Steak was first released, Capybara didn’t have any of the nice RSpec helpers it does now. A...

redmine.org

Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...

makandra dev

The information in this card is only relevant for Rails 2.3-era apps. This note gives a quick introduction into...

If you just upgraded to Bundler 10.0.10 you might get the following error when bringing up Rails: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in...

Note that you cannot currently use Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2 applications that use RSpec, so don't upgrade if...

phantomjs.org

PhantomJS is a minimalistic headless WebKit. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector...

Sometimes you can make your life easier by not allowing a record attribute to be changed after the record was...

ActiveRecord comes with a method touch which sets the updated_at timestamp to the current time. Unfortunately it also runs...

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cch4rails.blogspot.com

List of global variables available to a Ruby script.

Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2

I don't like those buttons inside the header area of a message that Thunderbird 3 put there. Though the...

ctan.larsko.net

If you plan to insert an existing PDF into a new LaTeX document that you will compile to PDF, you...

Merging .po-files with Git is painful. There have been attempts of making Git more clever when trying to merge...