This is quite an edge case, and appears like a bug in Rails (4.2.6) to me. Update: This is now...
Note: This applies to plain Ruby scripts, Rails does not have this issue. When you work with Ruby strings, those...
Ruby 2.3.0 has been around since end of 2015. It brings some pretty nice new features! Make sure to read...
You can download .gem files using gem fetch: gem fetch activesupport consul This will produce files like active-support-5.0.0.gem and consul-0.12.1.gem...
As announced before, Ruby has introduced a safe navigation operator with version 2.3.0. receiver&.method prevents NoMethodErrors by intercepting method...
#dig lets you easily traverse nested hashes, arrays, or even a mix of them. It returns nil if any intermediate...
When testing Ruby code that prints something to the terminal, you can test that output. Since RSpec 3.0 there is...
PostgreSQL uses the C library's locale facilities for sorting strings: First, all the letters are compared, ignoring spaces and...
Converting string characters to or from their integer value (7-bit ASCII value or UTF-8 codepoint) can be done...
As your Rails project grows, you will accumulate a number of small patches. These will usually fix a bug in...
Helix allows you to implement performance-critical code of your Ruby app in Rust, without requiring glue code to bridge...
When dealing with time zones in Rails, there is one key fact to keep in mind: Rails has configurable time...
This gem gives you a rake task db:seed:dump do create a db/seeds.rb from your current database state.
Instead of using this hack you might want to use MariaDB 10.x which can work with both old and...
Tool to show you which gems are slow to load: ➜ git:(master) ✗ bundle exec bumbler [################################################# ] (49/65) travis-lint...
Don't use exec without user parameter If you use exec without user parameter, the command will get executed as...
Stackprof is a sampling call-stack profile for Ruby 2.1+. Instead of tracking all method calls, it will simply collect...
Uses FFI and works all relevant operating systems. If you'd try to do it yourself, you'd have to...
Validations should be covered by a model's spec. This card shows how to test an individual validation. This is...
To install gems Bundler needs to be able to talk to https://api.rubygems.org. If you are behind a proxy you...
I got this error when running Rails 2.3 tests for Rails LTS. More stacktrace: NoMethodError: undefined method `cache' for Gem...
Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation
You login to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute? uptime
rack-mini-profiler is a powerful Swiss army knife for Rack app performance. Measure SQL queries, memory allocation and CPU...