With its you can switch the subject of an example to a method value of the current subject: describe Array...
This will not work (it always passes): Then the "Title" field should contain "" The value is turned into a regular...
For some reason you want to define a find condition in array form. And in that condition both column name...
Find conditions for scopes can be given either as an array (:conditions => ['state = ?', 'draft']) or a hash (:conditions => { 'state' => 'draft...
When using virtual attributes, the attached trait can be useful to automatically copy errors from one attribute to another.
power-rake db:migrate VERSION=20100913132321 By default the environments development, test, cucumber and performance are considered...
To only run a single describe/context block in a long spec, you can say spec spec/models/note_spec.rb:545 ... where the describe...
When Paperclip attachments should only be downloadable for selected users, there are three ways to go. The same applies to...
If you need to find all files inside a directory that were modified in the last 24 hours you can...
This will show you how to create a RSS feed that the Feed Validator considers valid. Note that RSS is...
The CSS Emoticons plugin is a simple jQuery plugin (and stylesheet) that allows you to turn any text emoticons on...
In modern Rails versions you can also use ActiveRecord's pluck method. User.active.pluck(:id) => [1, 5, 23, 42]
You should test the callback methods and its correct invocation in two separate tests. Understand the ActiveRecord note before you...
First of all: You could just use RVM which would make the pain go away. If for some reason you...
You can use the whatlanguage gem to detect the language of a Ruby string. Note that it also has not...
Be careful! The following solution will delete files on a volume. If you don't know exactly what you're...
Physical servers worked, EC2 did not.
In a great post about named routes in Rails, path vs. url, Viget Labs ponders which variant is best used...
Captify is a plugin for jQuery written by Brian Reavis (@brianreavis) to display simple, pretty image captions that appear on...
WMD is a simple, lightweight HTML editor for blog comments, forum posts, and basic content management. You can add WMD...
Expiration of Rails sessions By default Rails sessions expire when the user closes her browser window. To change this edit...
Embedded Flash movies do not always obey element order and z-index. To fix this, set the wmode attribute to...
When submitting textareas, browsers sometimes include carriage returns (\r) instead of just line feeds (\n) at the end of each...
When a spec only runs when it is called directly, but not as part of the whole test suite, make...