Web Apps Rake Assets Precompile with JRuby Complete A quick work-around to get rake assets:precompile to work when using the jruby-complete.jar.
DevOps & System Admin. Preparing Machines for Workshops with Vagrant, VirtualBox, & Puppet If you're giving a workshop, I recommend checking out Vagrant, VirtualBox, and puppet or chef for creating the workshop development environment.
Ruby on Rails Testing Email Templates in Rails Email clients all seem to display HTML mails differently. Here are a few tools I've used to make implementing Rails email templates a bit less painful.
Web Apps Using Zeus to Pre-load Ruby on Rails Environments If you're frustrated by startup delays in Ruby on Rails, try Zeus.
Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord Black Magic ActiveRecord's query interface is very powerful, but sometimes it will not generate the SQL you expect. Here's one approach to overriding this.
UX/Design Tools Getting Around Internet Explorer’s 4,096 CSS Rule Limit I recently found out that IE can't handle more than 4,095 selectors in a single CSS file. Here's my work-around.
jRuby Migrating Your JRuby Rails App Using warbler-exec Using warbler-exec, we can use the .war file itself to run the migrations without needing to transfer another copy of the rails app for this purpose.
Ruby How to Keep Font Awesome from Crashing capybara-webkit If you're developing a Ruby on Rails application on OS X, you'll need this workaround to keep Font Awesome from crashing capybara-webkit.
Ruby on Rails Making Rails and TeamCity Play Well Together After much experimentation, I’m actually happy with how my Rails project is being tested with TeamCity.
DevOps & System Admin. Deploying from Git with Capistrano With a few changes to our Capistrano configuration, we are able to deploy directly from the source code repository.
Web Apps GET and POST Parameter Parsing in Rails Rails does a lot of magic to parse the data browsers submit into a meaningful, complex Ruby object. Here's how it does it.
