If you need extra functions in your view, you normally declare those inside a helper. For each controller, if there is a helper it is automatically loaded. For instance, if you have a PeopleController, in the app/helpers folder, there should be a people_helper.rb, and it should look like this module PeopleHelper def name #do something … Read more
Upgrade to Ruby 2.0, as it makes UTF-8 the default encoding, removing the need for magic comments.
I believe the issue is that when you cache the fragment in your view, a cache digest is being added to the cache key (views/all_available_releases/41cb0a928326986f35f41c52bb3d8352), but expire_fragment is not using the digest (views/all_available_releases). If you add skip_digest: true to the cache call in the view it should prevent the digest from being used. <% cache … Read more
Oracle stopped supporting the NetBeans Ruby plugin, but the development has been taken over by the community. In fact, there are now more people working on the plugin than back when Oracle did still support it, including three of the lead developers of JRuby, one of the original developers of the NetBeans Ruby plugin and … Read more
The default parameter is used when the parameter isn’t provided. If you provide it as nil, then it will be nil. So yes, this is expected behavior.
You can just echo it instead if there are no newline characters in the string; otherwise, use the IO class. Using echo: system “echo #{stringdata} | pbcopy” OR `echo #{stringdata} | pbcopy` Ruby will then just rip the text from memory, inject it into the shell command which opens a pipe between the echo and … Read more
bundle install <directory name> makes the bundler install the gems in the respective directory. Running bundle install –system will set the install directory back to the system directory rather than the custom one you provided.
301 redirects are fairly common if you do not type the URL exactly as the web server expects it. They happen much more frequently than you’d think, you just don’t normally ever notice them while browsing because the browser does all that automatically for you. Two alternatives come to mind: 1: Use open-uri open-uri handles … Read more
That’s just because of String#inspect. There are no backslashes. Try: hjs = hash.to_json puts hjs
You can set the user agent from an alias a = Mechanize.new a.user_agent_alias=”Mac Safari” Available aliases are stored in the AGENT_ALIASES constant. p Mechanize::AGENT_ALIASES Otherwise, use #user_agent to set your custom user agent. a = Mechanize.new a.user_agent=”Custom agent”