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SudoSlider is a simple yet powerful content slider that makes no (or very few) assumptions about your markup and is...

If your requests blow up in Ruby or CURL, the server you're connecting to might only support requests with...

This card describes how to pass an array with multiple element to a JavaScript function, so that the first array...

In whenever you can schedule Ruby code directly like so: every 1.day, :at => '4:30 am' do runner "MyModel.task_to...

So you're getting an error message like the following, although your Gemfile lists shoulda-matchers and it has always...

If you have some file or directory that should trigger a Spring reboot, tell Spring e.g. in config/spring.rb: Spring.watch 'file.rb...

The most obvious way to use spring is to call it explicitly: spring rails console spring rake db:migrate...

See screenshot here. This is great news because network throttling is very painful in Linux. The features are already in...

Aruba is an extension to Cucumber that helps integration-testing command line tools. When your tests involve a Rails test...

When you cannot make Selenium trigger events you rely on (e.g. a "change" event when filling in a form field...

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An all-in-approach to fix the problem of pending AJAX requests dying in the browser when the server ends...

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Provides a value container that guarantees atomic updates to this value in a multi-threaded Ruby program. Originally linked to...

Since Ruby 2.1, defining a method returns its name as a Symbol: def foo() end # => :foo define_method :foo do...

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Introduces :include_old_value option to :assignable_xxx method.

For me guard recently took a very long to start (as in "minutes"), because I had lots of images in...

As you know, assignable_values does not invalidate a record even when an attribute value becomes unassignable. See this example...

Travis CI is a free continuous integration testing service. However, it is really fragile and will break more than it...

When you tell rbenv to install a Ruby it does not know about, you will get an error message.

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EdgeRider 0.3.0 adds support for Rails 4.1 and Ruby 2.1. It forward-ports ActiveRecord::Base.scoped to Rails 4.1.

RSpec 3.0 deprecates the :should way of writing specs for expecting things to happen. However, if you have tests you...

When you have a string containing umlauts which don't behave as expected (are not matched with a regexp, can...

Sometimes you're getting an ActiveSupport deprecation warning that you cannot or don't want to fix. In these cases...

Warnings like those below may originate from rspec or shoulda-matchers or other gems that have not updated yet to...

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jQuery plugin that makes it easy to dynamically add and remove records when using ActiveRecord's nested attributes.