There are some inconvenient Gem dependencies. Resolve them by adding/modifying these lines in your Gemfile: gem 'guard-livereload', '>= 2.5.2', require...
The rack-contrib gem brings a JSONP middleware that just works™. Whenever a JSON request has a callback parameter, it...
Exercise 1: XML On the start page of your Movie DB, show the title of a random movie that is...
Adopting legacy Rails apps Talk to your mentor about how we're approaching applications that are either old or abandoned...
So you're getting an error like this: undefined method `activate_bin_path' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)
TL;DR: Update the 'net-ssh' gem by adding to your Gemfile: gem 'net-ssh', '=2.9.1' Now run bundle update...
So you're getting this failure when running bundle install on an older project: Your Gemfile.lock is corrupt. The following...
TL;DR Debugging problems with javascript errors in cucumber tests is sometimes easier in the browser. Run the test, stop...
This method will remove automatically installed packages that no other packages depend on any more. This, of course...
When running tests via parallel_tests, you may encounter an error: cannot load such file -- parallel_tests/gherkin/runtime_logger Error creating formatter...
When testing your command line application with Aruba, you might need to stub out other binaries you don't want...
A Rake task appears in rake -T if it has a description: desc 'Compile assets' task :compile do ... end
Yesterday I stumbled across a talk in which the guy mentioned module sub-classing. I was curious what you can...
In order to have monitoring for Sidekiq (like queue sizes, last run of Sidekiq) your application should have a monitoring...
Closure_tree lets your ActiveRecord models act as nodes in a tree data structure. This promises a few improvements over...
Detect if a gem has been activated A gem is activated if it is either in the current bundle (Gemfile.lock...
We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and...
This error can be caused by the mysql2 gem under mysterious circumstances. You need to remove it with gem uninstall...
When you are calling Bundler from your shell scripts, you might find it useful that a failed bundle call returns...
We have a new gem Minidusen which extracts Dusen's query parsing and LIKE query functionality. Minidusen can no longer...
Improve geordi cucumber: Only attempt @solo run when the specified files contain the @solo tag, skip @solo run if any...
Capistrano is by default configured to exclude the gems of the groups development and test when deploying to the stages...
Resources Rails Guide: Internationalization API Guide to localizing a Rails application Locale-aware helpers in ActionView::Helpers::NumberHelper
You can define methods using def or define_method. In the real world, there is no performance difference.