When you use will_paginage to paginate a scope, and you want to obtain the total number of records matched...
For clarity and traceability, your commit messages should include the ID and title of the Pivotal Tracker story you're...
You most likely never want to do this. But if you do: Model.update_all({:id => new_id}, {:id => old_id...
To only run the next two migrations: rake db:migrate STEP=2 To revert the previous two migrations:
If you need to revert only parts of one or several commits the following workflow can help:
To install webmock 1.5.0: sudo gem install webmock --version "=1.5.0" or sudo gem install webmock -v "=1.5.0"
As a user of Bundler you have spent significant time looking at this message: Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org...
Regular spaces and non-breaking spaces are hard to distinguish for a human. Instead of using the HTML entity...
This is a bash script for those of you who need to install all gems for all projects (e.g. to...
Ctrl + R Search commands you entered previously. Press Ctrl + R again to search further back, Ctrl + Shift + R searches forward...
This note describes how to setup a box running Ubuntu to share its Internet connection with another PC.
Terminus is a Capybara driver where most of the driver functions are implemented in client-side JavaScript. It lets you...
You can now add an :inverse_of option to has_one, has_many and belongs_to associations.... Without :inverse_of...
This returns the name (including path) of your current layout: response.layout => "layouts/admin" # inside views that are using the 'admin' layout...
After switching to Rails 3 you may get a LoadError with the following message when trying to use your application...
You might find that your Passenger ignores all RailsSomething directives in the vhost for your new Rails 3 application. The...
Be careful when using params.merge as params is a HashWithIndifferentAccess. Why? Usually this should not be an issue but it...
In rare cases you might need something like form_for (for using form builder methods on the resulting block element...
I prefer the application that I'm currently working on to be reachable at http://localhost/. So when I switch...
Be careful when memoizing a method that returns a scope, e.g.: def variants scoped(:conditions => { :name => name }) end memoize :variants...
When using form_for you can give the form's target URL either as a string or an array:
The timepicker addon adds a timepicker to jQuery UI Datepicker, thus the datepicker (jQueryUI) is required for using any of...
I’m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions are wrong. Try to...
If you previously used version 2.x of Thunderbird and upgraded to 3.x (for example through an Ubuntu release...