Ruby comes with a class BigDecimal which you can use for arbitrary precision arithmetic. You should use BigDecimal instead of...
When storing floating-point numbers such as prices or totals in an SQL database, always use a DECIMAL column. Never...
Sass now comes with user-defined functions, keyword arguments, list manipulation. Haml and Sass are now two separate gems.
The Edge Rider gem will define a method collect_ids on your ActiveRecord models, scopes, integer scalars and collections, which...
A capybara driver that uses WebKit via QtWebKit.
Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as...
Documentation for the horrible RDoc syntax.
If you want to convert a README.rdoc file to HTML, say this from a shell: rdoc README.rdoc
Ruby gem to check whether a given bic/account-no-combination can possibly be valid for a German bank. Can also resolve German...
If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console...
Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...
User.active.to_sql Rails 2 Use either the Edge Rider or fake_arel gem to get #to_sql backported...
Since version 1.5 RubyGems requires at least Ruby 1.8.7. The last one working with Ruby 1.8.6 was RubyGems 1.4.2.
When installing RMagick you may get an error messages like this: Version 2.13.1: checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
Artifice allows you to replace the Net::HTTP subsystem of Ruby with an equivalent that routes all requests to a...
Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...
The information in this card is only relevant for Rails 2.3-era apps. This note gives a quick introduction into...
Note that you cannot currently use Ruby 1.9.2 with Rails 2 applications that use RSpec, so don't upgrade if...
List of global variables available to a Ruby script.
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
The shell variable PS1 holds your bash prompt. You might want to change it to serve your needs best. Here...
Now allows to list transition paths from and to arbitrary states.
Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions. Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated. Please...
We are maintaining some vintage projects with tests written in Test::Unit instead of RSpec. Mocks and stubs are not...