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Interesting talk about a team that integrated automated security testing into their BDD workflow. There is also a video of...

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Unfortunately, Web APIs haven’t provided the functionality to copy text to the clipboard through JavaScript, which is why visiting...

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I am happy to announce that this information is now available in JSON form at https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. The information...

On Ruby 1.9+, standard ruby character classes like \w, \d will only match 7-Bit ASCII characters: "foo" =~ /\w+/ # matches...

If you'd like to preview the crontab that whenever will deploy, run the following: bundle exec whenever

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What is rake good for? Take a look at some of the Rake tasks that Rails gives you (rake...

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How do HTTP requests and responses look like? What are HTTP headers? What are they used for?

If you need a postgresql extension for your database it isn't a good idea to give your applications database...

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Read the Rails Guide about Active Record migrations Understand why we never use models in migrations. Checkout the repository...

Learn to store attachments in a way that is accessible by authorized users only Learn to prevent users from...

You can include files from app/assets or from the public folder with javascript_include_tag. The subtle difference that tells...

To check which rubygems versions your different rbenv rubys are using, you can use this small bash script:

As you most likely know validates_uniqness_of :foreign_id does not allow nil values by default.

Use form models to handle this problem Or soften the validation to validates_presence_of :parent

There is no single place to look up documentation for our stack. This card includes some hints where you can...

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makandra's development process Learn about our process. The squares represent the state of the issue in Linear:

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Each time thin boots, it prints a boot message : Thin web server (v1.6.3 codename Protein Powder) Maximum connections set to...

If you hover over the text of a card, you will now see EDIT links at the top right corner...

A word of caution There should rarely be a reason for you to split up config/routes.rb. If you need to...

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MarcoPolo shows your app name and environment in your console prompt so you don't accidentally break production Officially supporting...

Use base_class. This traverses up the hierarchy until it encounters either a class inheriting from ActiveRecord::Base or

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tig is a command line explorer for Git that is just awesome. Install via apt-get or brew. Handy commands...

Here is how to start your Rails application to accept both HTTP and HTTPS in development. gem install passenger

Reason: You very likely have a model that has a delay attribute. You can configure Sidekiq to remove its delay...