github.com

No one wants to cry over regression issues in views; does testing HTML and CSS have to be such a...

makandra dev

The attached initializer gives your hashes a #deep_slice method that lets you recursively slice their contents by a given...

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sourceforge.net

ReText is a cross-platform WYSIWYG-ish Markdown editor. Toggle editor and preview layout with Ctrl+E.\

blog.hashrocket.com

Testing with real live production data does come with at least one catch. All those real live users in your...

So you got this error, even though your Gemfile bundles mysql2: !!! Missing the mysql2 gem. Add it to your Gemfile...

Our rspec_candy gem now gives you three matchers: be_same_number_as Tests if the given number is the...

The behaviour of browsers is very inconsistent when an Ajax request is answered with a redirect. Highlights are:

blog.jetbrains.com

A number of issues concerning Sass/SCSS autocompletion and syntax highlighting were submitted as a feedback for RubyMine 4.5. Web development...

dev.mysql.com

The next version of MySQL will include a built-in memcached daemon. This daemon can quickly get and set key/value...

assignable_values now lets you define a secondary default that is only used if the primary default value is not...

You can use String#demodulize from ActiveSupport: "ActiveRecord::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections" "Inflections".demodulize # => "Inflections"

When you develop a gem and you have a Gemfile in your project directory, you might be surprised that your...

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Consul 0.4.0 comes with some new features. Dependencies Consul no longer requires assignable_values, it's optional for when you...

makandra dev

The usage shares of your site highly depends on your target audience. E.g. no Internet Explorer has ever seen hollyapp.com...

Don't say is_a?(ActiveRecord::NamedScope::Scope) because that is no longer true in Rails 3 and also doesn...

github.com

paper_trail is an excellent gem to track record versions and changes. You almost never want to reimplement something like...

makandracards.com

When we looked at this card together a year ago, we were no longer sure if unquote is actually useful...

The will_paginate gem will show a default of 30 records per page. If you want to test pagination in...

Unless you changed the default, this will be 16 MB: mysql> SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name="max_allowed_packet"; +--------------------+----------+

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martinfowler.com

Rake (like make) allows you to add dependencies to a task after you've initially declared it. Indeed it allows...

... you probably have a time zone issue. When you get Timecop.travel(Date.parse("2011-11-11 00:00") do Time.current # Thu...

In a nutshell: Use git rebase --onto target-branch source-commit target-branch means "branch you want to be based...

Sometimes, you may want to open up a second database connection, to a read slave or another database. When doing...

When deploying, Capistrano puts a REVISION file into your application's release directory. It contains the hash of the commit...