tl;dr: Use with_index ActiveRecord's find_each with index If you do not provide a block to find...

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A different take on what we're doing with ActiveType. Since it lives under the rails organization it might be...

engineyard.com

Nice tutorial about packaging Ruby bindings to your API in a Ruby gem, with tests using VCR casettes.

In Thunderbird, you can set custom font faces and sizes for reading plain-text e-mails. However, Thunderbird sometimes "randomly...

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You need to copy an entire website? Use wget like this: wget -kr http://host.tld/ This will fetch all content...

If you're using the :header_html option in PDFKit (or the corresponding --header-html option in wkhtmltopdf), and the...

api.rubyonrails.org

To avoid n+1 queries, you want to eager-load associated records if you know you need to access them...

Cookies without an expiration timestamp are called "session cookies". [1] They should only be kept until the end of the...

So you want to organize your I18n using multiple .yml files but your Rails 4.1 application simply won't use...

youtube.com

Great introduction to React.js and the ideas behind it.

There are different ways to run rake: On Rails 4.1+ projects, you have Spring and its binstubs which dramatically improve...

Capybara will fail to find tags that are missing an href attribute. This will probably happen to you every now...

When your system is not running on English, you may sometimes want to run some applications and not use your...

In Rails, you can very easily send emails with HTML and plaintext bodies. However, if you're trying to debug...

Use reorder to replace an existing order clause with a new expression.

ruby.about.com

The flip-flop operator is a hotly contested feature of Ruby. It's still struggling to find an idiomatic use...

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We will be installing rbenv and ruby-build from our own fork, not from the Ubuntu sources. Installing rbenv

# config/initializers/sidekiq.rb # Perform Sidekiq jobs immediately in development, # so you don't have to run a separate process.

Though nowhere to be found in the official docs, this works just fine. describe Facebook::Post do it_behaves_like...

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For server-to-server requests to the Facebook Graph API you can skip requesting an Oauth token, an...

Getting rid of your old LibreOffice Remove your old LibreOffice: sudo apt-get remove libreoffice* You probably also want to...

By default git diff highlights whole lines as changes. To diff on a word-by-word basis you can say...

List flavors to show the ID and name, the amount of memory, the amount of disk space for the root...

doubleyourfreelancing.com

How you can unknowingly screw your client's business when all you think about is closing the next user story...