Most of these will not work in newer projects because these use the Capybara/Rack::Test combo in lieu of Webrat...

ActsAsSolr::Post.execute(Solr::Request::Delete.new(:query => "#{Location.solr_configuration[:type_field]}:#{ModelClass}")) ActsAsSolr::Post.execute(Solr::Request::Commit.new)

This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class...

You are getting when connecting via SSH or deploying with Capistrano (which uses SSH): Too many authentication failures for username...

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...

A while back, I had a requirement to persist a record of which email addresses were sent an email through...

List of Rails releases.

Reads Active Record's validations and makes them available to live client side javascript

Rails’ script/console makes it easy to fetch, view and edit your database records. But can you edit those records as...

PNG transparency for IE 6.

MMM (MySQL Master-Master Replication Manager) is a set of flexible scripts to perform monitoring/failover and management of MySQL Master...

Record Filter gives you the full power of ActiveRecord's query building tools with a heaping helping of DSL thrown...

The idea behind scrooge is both surprisingly simple and powerful: instead of forcing the developer to manually specify each attribute...

After some deliberation, we decided to implement a "schema-less" storage system on top of MySQL rather than use a...

Store schema-less data in MySQL.

So here’s an overview of how things are going to work in Rails 3.

Ambitious Query Indexer is a Rails plugin to identify database indexes that are missing. Rather than looking at tables and...

A simple implementation of an Identity Mapper for Active Record.

They don't teach you this in college, but the fundamental theorem of the software industry is the idea that...

Just assign the existing attachment to another record: new_photo = Photo.new new_photo.image = old_photo.image Paperclip will duplicate the file when saving...