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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.
Ruby

Live and Let Pry

Pry has great support for plugins. Here are some that I've found most useful.
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.

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