The rack-contrib gem brings a JSONP middleware that just works™. Whenever a JSON request has a callback parameter, it...
TruffleRuby is an experimental Ruby implementation that tries to achieve ~10x performance over MRI. This has been on our radar...
Sometimes huge refactorings or refactoring of core concepts of your application are necessary for being able to meet new requirements...
You may know the double asterisk operator from Ruby snippets like Dir['spec/**/*_spec.rb'] where it expands to an arbitrary...
Ruby's regular expressions can be represented differently. When serializing them, you probably want to use inspect instead of to...
Exercise 1: XML On the start page of your Movie DB, show the title of a random movie that is...
Adopting legacy Rails apps Talk to your mentor about how we're approaching applications that are either old or abandoned...
So you're getting an error like this: undefined method `activate_bin_path' for Gem:Module (NoMethodError)
TL;DR: Update the 'net-ssh' gem by adding to your Gemfile: gem 'net-ssh', '=2.9.1' Now run bundle update...
So you're getting this failure when running bundle install on an older project: Your Gemfile.lock is corrupt. The following...
Plot graphs in Ruby WebGraphviz renders in your browser via JavaScript (to store the rendered graph, extract the SVG using...
This card tries to summarize by example the different uses of heredoc. In Ruby << vs. <<- vs. <<~ In Rails strip_heredoc...
You can use three different versions of the regular expression syntax in grep: basic: -G extended: -E(POSIX)
TL;DR Debugging problems with javascript errors in cucumber tests is sometimes easier in the browser. Run the test, stop...
This method will remove automatically installed packages that no other packages depend on any more. This, of course...
When testing your command line application with Aruba, you might need to stub out other binaries you don't want...
A Rake task appears in rake -T if it has a description: desc 'Compile assets' task :compile do ... end
When you're writing specs for ActiveRecord models that use memoization, a simple #reload will not do: it 'updates on...
Yesterday I stumbled across a talk in which the guy mentioned module sub-classing. I was curious what you can...
In order to have monitoring for Sidekiq (like queue sizes, last run of Sidekiq) your application should have a monitoring...
Closure_tree lets your ActiveRecord models act as nodes in a tree data structure. This promises a few improvements over...
Detect if a gem has been activated A gem is activated if it is either in the current bundle (Gemfile.lock...
We have released a new library Gemika to help test a gem against multiple versions of Ruby, gem dependencies and...
This error can be caused by the mysql2 gem under mysterious circumstances. You need to remove it with gem uninstall...