Call with the server's hostname (and user if you have no SSH agent), e.g. install-gems-remotely my.server.com

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This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...

Our gem Mail Magnet allows you to override e-mail recipients in ActionMailer so all mails go to a given...

There will probably be better solutions as we become more experienced with using Bundler, and more command line tools become...

Rails 3, 4, 5, 6 config/application.rb config/environment.rb before the initialize! call (we don't usually edit this file)

The state_machine gem ships with a scope with_state. This scope has some problems in complex queries or scope...

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Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.

Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...

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Boolean attributes can now be set by appending "which", "that" or "who" at the end: Given there is a movie...

When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...

popthis is awesome when used with inaction_mailer. Setup inaction_mailer Install the gem: sudo gem install popthis

Capybara does not play nice with sites that have some actions protected by SSL, some not. A popular way to...

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Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...

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YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just...

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Try our Apify gem which solves many problems you will be having.

When you get this while installing the raspell gem: ERROR: Error installing raspell: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension...

When you get this error: No word lists can be found for the language "de". An aspell dictionary is missing...

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Ancestry is a gem/plugin that allows the records of a Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord model to be organised as a...

Until May 2011 our gems have been created with Jeweler, which is a helper library to package code into a...

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We built cucumber_spinner to have a progress bar for Cucumber features, which also outputs failing scenarios as soon as...

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rspec_spinner is a progress bar for RSpec which outputs failing examples as they happen (instead of all at the...

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Install gem and plugin sudo gem install parallel script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git Adapt config/database.yml test: database: xxx_test<%= ENV...

To parse XML-documents, I recommend the gem nokogiri. A few hints: xml = Nokogiri::XML(" foo bar ") parses an xml...