On Heroku
While Heroku is nice and all, it suffers from the same disease as every other hosted-for-you solution: $ git push heroku (...) -----> Gemfile detected, running Bundler version 1.0.7 (...) $ bundle...
View Articlehookup is the shit!
This is simply amazing: $ g pull Already up-to-date. $ g co edge Switched to branch 'edge' == AddFileTypeToSong: migrating ============================================== -- add_column(:songs,...
View ArticleRun guard-jasmine-headless-webkit without X server
You write specs for your javascript, right? If not, you really should. jasmine-headless-webkit really helps with that. guard-jasmine-headless-webkit makes it all even more enjoyable, although there’s...
View ArticleBug of the day
Completely bad code follows, beware. Silent error in Ruby 1.8.7: x = [:a, :b] => [:a, :b] x.slice!(:a) => nil x => [:a, :b] Explicit error (resulting in a failing test) in Ruby 1.9.2: x = [:a,...
View ArticleTell bundler to install gems globally when using capistrano
Seems like it’s not so straightforward. Here’s the excerpt from my config/deploy.rb: require "bundler/capistrano" set :bundle_dir, "" # install into "system" gems set :bundle_flags, "--quiet" # no...
View ArticleUninitialized constant Gem::Deprecate
If you run into this problem, which by the way usually happens after upgrading the rubygems package (in my case it was to version 1.8.21), your best bet is to upgrade the gem from the backtrace of this...
View ArticleTesting CSRF protection in Rails
Ever wanted to test your CSRF protection in a Rails app? For example, in a situation when you have a custom “remember me” cookie set and you need to overwrite Rails’ handle_unverified_request to clear...
View ArticleEnabling I18n locale fallbacks in Rails
This guide is valid for i18n version 0.7.0+ and Rails 4.1+ Strangely enough enabling custom locale fallbacks is harder than it should be. Here’s what you need to enable custom locale fallbacks with...
View ArticleTesting database transactions explicitly with RSpec
TL;DR; you cannot do it reliably with RSpec. The long story goes like this. Lets say you have a code executing an AR rollback when something fails: def call Model.transaction do update_reason unless...
View ArticleRun Rails 2.3 application using Ruby 2.1
There is a way to have your old Rails 2.3.something application running using latest Ruby from the 2.1 branch. However, it is moderately complex and requires quite a few hacks. Not everything works...
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