If you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you...

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Note: ActiveRecord::Base#becomes has a lot of quirks and inconsistent behavior. You probably want to use ActiveType.cast instead.

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github.com

Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a...

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mitmproxy.org

mitmproxy is an SSL-capable, intercepting HTTP proxy. It provides a console interface that allows traffic flows to be inspected...

There is a nasty bug in all version of Rails 2 and some versions of Rails 3.x where two...

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If there is some weird margin at the top of your page for no apparent reason, chances are one of...

benmabey.com

Bryan talked about the differences between imperative and declarative scenarios. In my opinion, both styles have benefits and should be...

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Within an event handler, there are multiple methods to cancel event propagation, each with different semantics. event.preventDefault() Only prevents the...

joemaller.com

Google’s Font Directory and API for web fonts could have a transformative effect on how we read the web...

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If you're using jQuery, you need to update to 1.5.1 to get Internet Explorer 9 to work.

When you write a custom RSpec matcher a good place to store them is to create one file per matcher...

To test whether a hash includes an expected sub-hash: expect(user.attributes).to match(hash_including('name' => 'Bruce Wayne'))

At times, it might be unavoidable to have different CSS rules for Internet Explorer than for sane browsers. Using Sass...

When using ActionMailer, you can set an array of email addresses as recipients. If this array is generated by e.g...

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The information in this card is only relevant for Rails 2.3-era apps. This note gives a quick introduction into...

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ruzee.com

Liquid Canvas is a JavaScript library which allows you to draw inside an HTML canvas element with an easy yet...

If you just upgraded to Bundler 10.0.10 you might get the following error when bringing up Rails: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in...

Note that you cannot currently use Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2 applications that use RSpec, so don't upgrade if...

Sometimes you can make your life easier by not allowing a record attribute to be changed after the record was...

ActiveRecord comes with a method touch which sets the updated_at timestamp to the current time. Unfortunately it also runs...

devstructure.com

blueprint is DevStructure’s workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and...

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cch4rails.blogspot.com

List of global variables available to a Ruby script.

Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2

I don't like those buttons inside the header area of a message that Thunderbird 3 put there. Though the...