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Ruby on Rails

Using "load" with "any?" to avoid double queries from Active Record

February 18, 2021. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Unforgettable attributes

November 14, 2015. Tagged Design patterns, Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Make sharing explicit

May 12, 2015. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Wrap instance variables passed to layouts

April 28, 2015. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

UNION with Active Record

August 22, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Custom 404 error page with Rails 4

August 8, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Archiving a (Rails) site as static files on Nginx

August 7, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Nginx.

Using a headless Rails for tasks and tests

June 25, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Use Active Record's last! in tests

June 23, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Review in review.

SimpleDelegator autoloading issues with Rails

March 2, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

What I dislike about Draper

March 1, 2014. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Presenters.

Option lists with simple_form

September 5, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Ruby, simple_form.

Using concat and capture to clean up custom Rails helpers

June 18, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Helpers.

Render Rails views with locals, not instance variables

May 20, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Unnesting routes in Rails

May 19, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Beyond Active Record merge

February 28, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Object design.

Self-contained features

February 14, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Object design.

RSpec shared examples with template methods

February 11, 2013. Tagged RSpec, Ruby on Rails.

PORO validators in Rails

February 8, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Named placeholders in Active Record queries

January 19, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Customizing Rails.vim

January 12, 2013. Tagged Vim, Ruby on Rails.

Update with joins in Rails migrations with Postgres

January 9, 2013. Tagged Ruby on Rails, SQL.

Don't include all helpers

August 30, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

The Rails flash isn't just for messages

August 18, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails.

Rails STI and form_for

August 14, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails, STI.

SendGrid metadata and Rails

August 7, 2012. Tagged SendGrid, Ruby on Rails, Action Mailer.

Abort mail delivery with Rails 3 interceptors

August 1, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails, Action Mailer.

Rails i18n tips

July 22, 2012. Tagged Ruby on Rails, i18n, Tips.

Tests on demand using Vimux and Turbux with Spork and Guard

July 13, 2012. Tagged Testing, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Vim, tmux.

Randomize your factories

July 8, 2012. Tagged factory_girl, Factories, Testing, Ruby on Rails.

Canonizing pseudo-slugs in Rails

September 13, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Time zones and multidimensional grouping with Active Record and MySQL

March 26, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Non-restricting scope and the UserSession class in Rails

February 19, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Get rid of org.jruby.Main with JRuby on Rails

January 9, 2009. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Java, Rake, JRuby.

Use save(false), not save_without_validation

November 24, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Rails/jQuery UI sortables with single UPDATE query

November 15, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, SQL, Ajax, jQuery.

Validate URL format in Rails

October 19, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Validating slugs against existing routes in Rails

October 18, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

cap gems:install and a Gem dependency gotcha

October 12, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Capistrano.

Repeat content in Rails with content_for

October 3, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Augmentations plugin for Rails

September 10, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Custom 404 action in Rails

July 25, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Raise Error404, don't render and return

July 24, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Rails authenticity token with jQuery

May 31, 2008. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, jQuery.

Rails model extensions (mincemeat models revisited)

February 8, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

admins_create_and_edit

February 6, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Rails truncate helper that handles HTML tags and entities

January 30, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Hpricot.

surround helper alternative in Haml

January 21, 2008. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Haml.

rake solr:tail for acts_as_solr query log

December 28, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake, acts_as_solr.

Full error messages without prepended attribute name

December 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Change displayed column name in Rails validation messages

December 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

My Rails title helpers

November 26, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Use __END__ for keeping code around in testing

November 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Comma concatenation for punctuation after link in Haml

November 5, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

October 19, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake.

Whiny protected attributes

October 5, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Bypassing attr_accessible/attr_protected for test factories

October 4, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Make blank acts_as_solr queries find all records

September 3, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using RJS generator methods in raw JS

August 29, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ajax.

Skinny controller, mincemeat model

July 25, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Ruby on Rails.

Flash outgoing mail in Ruby on Rails development

June 29, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

An alternative to password confirmation

June 25, 2007. Tagged JavaScript, Ruby, Annoyances, Ruby on Rails, UI.

Raising finders

June 24, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Using will_paginate with acts_as_solr

June 15, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Rake task to (re)index models for acts_as_solr

June 14, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rake.

"cap deploy" command for TextMate

June 8, 2007. Tagged Ruby, OS X, TextMate, Ruby on Rails, Shell scripting, Capistrano.

Ruby wordwrap method

March 24, 2007. Tagged Ruby, Ruby on Rails.