Be careful! The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're...
When you load a record with find options that have SQL fragments in :select or :joins, ActiveRecord will make that...
Physical servers worked, EC2 did not.
In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used...
This gem is designed to provide CSS views to Rails, and a process to concatenate and minify these files to...
Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis (@brianreavis) to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on...
Capistrano task for Bundler.
This post explains, in some detail, how we will implement a nice performance boost for Rails developers. Understanding the details...
WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD...
Expiration of Rails sessions By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window. To change this edit...
If you iterate over a collection of arrays, you can destructure the arrays within the block parameters: movies_and_directors...
By default, Cucumber uses mocha. This note shows to use RSpec stubs and mocks instead. Rspec 1 / Rails 2
Since RubyMine 3.1 you can drag tabs across panes/windows and out of the main window to create new windows.
sudo apt-get install i8kutils Reboot You can now run the i8k tools such as i8kmon Setting the fan speed...
Call with the server's hostname (and user if you have no SSH agent), e.g. install-gems-remotely my.server.com
The following Haml will do: %head{ :profile => 'http://www.w3.org/2005/10/profile' } %link{ :href => image_path('favicon.ico'), :rel => 'icon', :type => 'image/vnd.microsoft.icon' }
If you want to exclude your staging site from Google using robots.txt without running the risk to forget deleting the...
There are two distinct ways of commenting Haml markup: HTML and Ruby. HTML comments This will create an HTML comment...
This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...
Our gem Mail Magnet allows you to override e-mail recipients in ActionMailer so all mails go to a given...
To return non-HTML responses (like XLS spreadsheets), we usually use the respond_to do |format| format.xls do # send spreadsheet...
There will probably be better solutions as we become more experienced with using Bundler, and more command line tools become...
If you added a file by mistake, you can unstage it (but keep local changes) by saying git reset HEAD...
def task_with_hoptoad_notification(options) task(options) do begin yield rescue Exception => e Airbrake.notify(e) raise e