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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...

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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.

In case you want to require a gem, that is not in the Gemfile of you bundle and therefore not...

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The parallel-gem is quite easy to use and can speed up rendering time if you want to render the...

For the initial setup or changes in the sentry reporting it might be useful to enabled reporting of sentry in...

Note: The behaviour of Spreewald's within step is as described below for version < 1.9.0; For Spreewald >= 1.9.0 it is...

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Barby is a great Ruby gem to generate barcodes of all different sorts. It includes support for QR codes via...

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/home/.../ruby/gems/2.1.0/gems/bundler-1.14.3/lib/bundler/rubygems_ext.rb:45:in `full_gem_path': uninitialized constant Bundler::Plugin::API::Source (NameError) Solution: Upgrade Rubygems beyond 2.6.9...

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Adding a gem means you take over the liability towards the external code. Checklist Based on "To gem, or not...