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Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft...

When using virtual attributes, the attached trait can be useful to automatically copy errors from one attribute to another.

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In modern Rails versions you can also use ActiveRecord's pluck method. User.active.pluck(:id) => [1, 5, 23, 42]

You should test the callback methods and its correct invocation in two separate tests. Understand the ActiveRecord note before you...

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In july Google announced a new version of their image serach tool Google Images. But you won't find it...

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delocalize provides localized date/time and number parsing functionality for Rails.

First of all: You could just use RVM which would make the pain go away. If for some reason you...

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You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...