Find the most frequent string in an array without failing on empty input; the approach uses grouping and returns the first value from the largest group.

Nested form deletions can inflate aggregated totals when child records marked for removal are still counted. marked_for_destruction? filters them out before saving.

Whenever can misread 24-hour times without a leading zero, turning 3:00 into 3pm instead of 3am. chronic_options can switch parsing to a 24-hour clock.

Integrating cross-cutting concerns in Ruby can reduce duplication and keep logging, security, and other shared behavior separate from core business logic.

Handy ActiveSupport helpers add callbacks, message signing and encryption, ordered options, array wrapping, deep hash merging, whitespace squishing, and zone-aware current time.

How it works

See the lemonade descriptions.

Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems:

• it does not work with Sass2
• it always generates all sprites when the sass file changes, which is too slow for big projects
• it expects a folder structure quite different to our usual

All these problems are solved for us, in our own lemonade fork. This fork has since been merged to the original gem, maybe we can use t...

ActiveRecord association macros do not replace existing instance methods with the same name, so custom methods can still shadow belongs_to and has_many accessors.

RubyMine rubymine:// links can fail on GNOME/Linux, blocking better_errors from opening source files in the editor. A custom desktop handler and BETTER_ERRORS_EDITOR_URL make file jumping work.

View specs can crash on undefined helper methods; enabling config.action_controller.include_all_helpers or including helper modules makes view rendering work.

Whenever needs application set in Capistrano so cron entries keep a stable identifier and do not accumulate duplicate jobs across deploys.

Webpacker configuration can be hard to inspect when builds misbehave; dumping the environment, using browser or Node debugging, and emitting warnings help reveal the active webpack settings.

Configure .rspec to load spec_helper or rails_helper automatically, avoiding repeated require lines in every spec and making parallel test setups work with .rspec_parallel.

DB BAHN order numbers on credit card statements can be used to look up details of past rides on the Deutsche Bahn ticket portal.

Consul 0.4.0 adds temporary power switching, support for Ruby collections and arbitrary objects as powers, and drops the ActiveSupport::Memoizable dependency.

Test database setup can drift from development when schema dumps omit SQL-specific details; choose the right Rake task to keep structure, charset, and collation aligned.

MySQL 5.6 rejects default values on BLOB and TEXT columns, blocking migrations that rely on them. Adjust the migration, move defaults into the application, or temporarily change sql_mode.

Monitor logs across multiple app servers from one terminal and avoid missing per-host errors; LOG selects another file, and terminal line truncation can hide long entries.

For all of my professed admiration of Ruby on rails, I personally don't think that easier and more productive CRUD application writing will shake things up. I personally care very much about writing applications in a tenth of the time, but using Rails is like listening to Jaco Pastorius. The real learning experience comes when you try to duplicate the feat.