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...

github.com

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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github.com

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...

sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...

See the lemonade descriptions. Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems: it does not work with Sass2...

install apache sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev sudo gem install passenger sudo passenger-install-apache2-module follow the instructions

When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...

sudo gem install zip git clone git://github.com/rtomayko/date-performance.git cd date-performance rake package:build cd dist sudo gem install...

To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...

sudo gem install rails --version="=1.2.3" rails _1.2.3_ new-project-folder

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rdoc.info

Ruby Rails Any gem

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github.com

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...

railscheck.rubyforge.org

This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...

code.google.com

Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server...

theexciter.com

The rubyforge gems model may not be perfect, but damnit people, when there’s a gem update I know that...

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roo

roo.rubyforge.org

This gem allows you to access the content of

sickill.net

If you’re working on some cool ruby console-based application or just want to add a little style to...

metric-fu.rubyforge.org

Metric_fu is a set of rake tasks that make it easy to generate metrics reports. It uses Saikuro, Flog...

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pennysmalls.com

I just released a gem to find image dimensions and type information fast.