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databound.me

Databound provides Javascript a simple API to the Ruby on Rails CRUD. Tries to expose a full model CRUD as...

edgeguides.rubyonrails.org

Rails guide that covers PostgreSQL-specific column types and usages for Active Record. You should especially keep in mind the...

makandracards.com

Chances are you're seeing the warning repeated a lot of times, maybe thousands of times. Here's how to...

If you want a class-like construct in JavaScript, you can use the module pattern below. The module pattern gives...

phusion.github.io

Traveling Ruby is a project which supplies self-contained, "portable" Ruby binaries: Ruby binaries that can run on any Linux...

Option 0: Download from the official page (preferred) Open https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/ In Section "Stable" > chromedriver / linux64 > Download ZIP from...

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github.com

Shortener is a Rails Engine Gem that makes it easy to create and interpret shortened URLs on your own domain...

Upgrading from Ruby 1.8.7 to 2.1.2 took me an hour for a medium-sized application. It involved hardly any changes...

For our production servers we use Passenger as a Ruby application server. While it is possible to use Passenger for...

If you make a gem with Bundler, you will get a rake release task that will instantly publish your gem...

github.com

Using this gem I could get JSON generation from a large, nested Ruby hash down from 200ms to 2ms.

makandra dev

Confusingly, RVM installs the bundler gem into the @global gemset, which is available to all gemsets and Rubies.

Firefox 5.0.1, which we were using for most Rails 2.3 projects, does not run on Ubuntu 14.04 any more. Here...

marvin.soup.io

If you have this problem when you update your FreeBSD Ports: ===>>> Launching child to update ruby19-iconv-1.9.3.547,1 to...

The asset pipeline changes the paths of CSS files during precompilation. This opens a world of pain when CSS files...

We upgraded a Rails 2 application to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.1, changed the mysql adapter from mysql to mysql2...

makandra dev
ankane.github.io

Create beautiful Javascript charts with one line of Ruby. Promising chart library for easily rendering charts with Google Charts.

tl;dr: Use with_index ActiveRecord's find_each with index If you do not provide a block to find...

engineyard.com

Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

ruby.about.com

The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use...

makandra dev

We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

If you get an error like this: An error occurred while installing pg (0.17.1), and Bundler cannot continue.

Microsoft Exchange service administrators can enable Exchange Web Services (EWS) which is a rather accessible XML API for interacting with...