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So you're hunting down a regression (or just a bug) and want to use git bisect to find out...

Remember why preloading associations "randomly" uses joined tables or multiple queries? If you don't like the cleverness of this...

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Rails has generic error messages you can define in your locale .yml files. You may override those application-wide error...

Do not pass times to date attributes. Always convert times to dates when your application uses time zones. Background

Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

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When MySQL refuses to use your index, there's a number of things that you may be doing wrong. One...

Don't Google this, you will lose all will to live. Instead use Object#isEqual() from Lodash or Underscore.js:

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You probably know that you can use CSS selectors to match against elements and their attributes, such as:

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validates_uniqueness_of is not sufficient to ensure the uniqueness of a value. The reason for this is that in...