When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
Solr listens to different ports for different environments. Start Solr (and hide useless output) rake solr:start PORT=8981 &>/dev/null...
This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class...
This note shows how to merge an ugly feature branch with multiple dirty WIP commits back into the master as...
sudo gem install rails --version="=1.2.3" rails _1.2.3_ new-project-folder
sudo apt-get install unzip rake rails:freeze:edge RELEASE=2.2.2
Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]
This is for people recovering from Subversion. Get an existing from the server for the first time git clone git@example.com...
In Ubuntu your ALT key is locked when you're working in VirtualBox. There are two workarounds for this:
You are getting when connecting via SSH or deploying with Capistrano (which uses SSH): Too many authentication failures for username...
Ruby Rails Any gem
When you include a non-existing Javascript file, you probably won't notice it during development. But with caching active...
Gem to provide nice looking urls ("/blog/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed"). If you don't need anything too special (like i18n for the urls...
Cerberus is a lightweight and easy-to-use Continuous Builder software for Ruby. It could be run periodically from a...
Consent is an access control abstraction layer for ActionController. It lets you restrict access to actions across your application using...
I've seen this granularity problem on every project, product or program I've worked on. Often in non-agile...
YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites...
JSViz makes it easy to create dynamic 2D views of information. Practical applications include network graphs, navigation, and other dynamic...
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...
Wrapper from Globalite API to the Rails 2.2 I18n API
I have been playing around with RESTful Rails recently. Below is my collection or Rails REST howtos, tutorials and other...
I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of...