Rake tasks
How can I search for available rake tasks? rake -T | grep gem (where “gem” is the thing you are…
Working with gems
Gems are installed by sources, or a repository which holds several gems. Generally all the gems you will need are…
Tips for Working with Rails
Go to script/console to open ruby in interactive mode. script/console loads your environments (everything in environment.rb and all your plugin…
How do I reload my models if I’m in script/console?
Sometimes you’re in script/console and you make a change to your model files, but since Ruby on reads the models…
Writing to the development log in Rails.
logger.debug WHAT_TO_OUTPUT ***** I think this syntax only works in controllers and outside of a controller you have to use…
With Passenger where does the console log (output from puts) go?
When running Passenger (module for running Rails on Apache), the console log (output from puts) goes into the apache error…
Cucumber – Behavior-Driven Development
<h1>CUCUMBER FIRST STEPS</h1> Much of the online documentation for Cucumber dives right in. Here are some pointers for those very…
Rails error: undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=`
when running tests, I’m getting an error: undefined method `use_transactional_fixtures=` for Test::Unit::testCase:Class (NoMethodError) This happens if you generated your tests…
Installing Rails & MySQL On Mac OS X
First, isntall MySQL package installer from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.1.html#downloads DON’T DOWNLOAD THE 64-BIT VERSION!!! You must download the 32-bit version even if…
Rails Script shortcuts
Some great shortcuts for script generation. I always try to start by building scaffold for any new entity, then remove…