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Authentication is all about being able to verify the identity of a user in the context of our application.

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Goal of this lesson is to understand what middlewares in Rack are good for. Rack Start with these articles:

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The Bullet gem is designed to help you increase your application's performance by reducing the number of queries it...

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Sometimes you need to run background jobs that you can't make important guarantees about - they may run out of...

Action Mailer Basics and Previews Chapter "Task H1: Sending Mail" from Agile Web Development with Rails 7.2 (in our...

Learn to treat files as an ActiveRecord attribute type, like :string or :integer Research Look at the README for...

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Understand what Memoization is and when it can be useful. Understand the @variable ||= computation pattern. Learn how to use...

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Understand why we use pagination Exercises Create 7500 movies in MovieDB (hint: Doing it in a single transaction is...

makandra is responsible for maintaining about 75 Ruby projects. These projects use a large number of different versions for Ruby...

Today I ran into this: Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194/specifications/ZenTest-4.9.3.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["< 2.1, >= 1.8"]. You need a newer Rubygems version. Try...

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Capistrano 3 is a major rework of the framework and requires several adjustments to your deploy configuration files. The biggest...

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In RSpec you can tag examples or example groups with any tags you like simply by saying describe ReportCreator, slow...

When using threads, you must make your code thread-safe. This can be done by either locking (mutexes) all data...

Web applications can be used by multiple users at the same time. A typical application server like Passenger has multiple...

Dusen (our search gem) is now capable of excluding words, phrases and qualified fields from search. E.g. search for

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You can hook into Slack when using Capistrano for deployment. The slackistrano gem does most of the heavy lifting for...

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See this Railscast. Basically you can simply write views like index.xlsx.erb: ID Name Release Date Price <% @products.each do |product| %> <%= product.id...

I got the following error after updating the selenium-webdriver gem: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1) (ArgumentError) /home/pointoo-dev/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p374/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/platform.rb...

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Gem to show failing specs instantly. Unlike the --fail-fast option it doesn't abort abort on the first failure...

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Preview what your markdown would look like on Github. Helpful e.g. when writing or extending a Readme for your gem...

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Geordi 1.0 features a command line application geordi, that holds most of Geordi's previous commands. New features

Add gem 'database_cleaner' to your Gemfile. Then: Cucumber & Rails 3+ # features/support/database_cleaner.rb DatabaseCleaner.clean_with(:deletion) # clean once, now DatabaseCleaner.strategy = :transaction...

When a gem author releases a new version to Rubygems, usually a tag with the version number (e.g. v1.2.0) is...

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Jonas Nicklas, the author of Carrierwave and Capybara, has released Refile, a gem for handling file uploads in Rails. It...