Use Traim to build a RESTful API for your ActiveRecord models with very little code. Traim assumes your API resources...

Sometimes you add Paperclip image styles, sometimes you remove some. In order to only keep the files you actually need...

You can configure a Ubuntu system as a gateway in order to share it's internet connection (maybe via WLAN...

Webpack is the future. We're using it in our latest Rails applications. For tests, we want to compile assets...

RawGit serves raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers, for CDN-like purposes. Note that they don...

When using GROUP BY, MySQL now complains if the SELECT includes columns which are not part of the GROUP BY...

Nowadays it is fairly easy to intercept and modify mails globally before they are sent. All you have to do...

When you have a multi-server setup, you'll be adding a new server from time to time. Before doing...

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...

By default Middleman generates files with a .html extension. Because of this all your URLs end in /foo.html instead of...

Middleman is a static page generator that brings many of the goodies that Rails developers are used to.

Sometimes, through some firewall or proxy misconfiguration, you might have to deploy to a server that cannot access the git...

Database connections are not thread-safe. That's why ActiveRecord uses a separate database connection for each thread.

In modern default RSpec configurations, your tests are usually run in random order. This helps to detect "flickering" tests that...

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

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

This card is just about creating simple PostgreSQL dumps. This is no instruction for a backup strategy nor a guide...

Crontabs are often unordered, especially when generated for an application where you usually group tasks by their domain/scope.

Website that offers lots of different kinds of HTTPS configurations, bad or good or complicated. They also offer a dashboard...

Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like...

Web technology is a broad field and you cannot be an expert in all aspects. However, it is useful to...

Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...

We generally use multiple application servers (at least two) and you have to search on all of them if you...