This might eventually be fixed by Rails itself.\ Right now this is the way to have the rails_xss plugin...
Sometimes you want to fetch associations for an ActiveRecord that you already loaded, e.g. when it has deeply nested associations...
There are three ways to define your own RSpec matchers, with increasing complexibility and options: 1) Use RSpec::Matchers.define
Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...
When deploying Rails applications you might have noticed that JS and CSS are not cached by all browsers.
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...
jamesgolick / resource_controller at Github module ResourceController module Actions def index load_collection before :index response_for :index end
Capybara does not play nice with sites that have some actions protected by SSL, some not. A popular way to...
Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...
Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare...
Try our Apify gem which solves many problems you will be having.
An alternative to this technique is using VCR. VCR allows you to record and replay real HTTP responses, saving you...
For example, to send a form and populate a preview div with the response. $('content_form').request({ parameters: { 'preview': "1...
The Rails router has been written and rewritten at least four times2, including a recent rewrite for the upcoming Rails...
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...
With defaults, RCov doesn't work the way you how you would like it to. To create a nice test...
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...
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...
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class...
This note shows how to merge an ugly feature branch with multiple dirty WIP commits back into the master as...