Learn how to precompile your Rails assets via a pre-commit git hook

A quick post showing how to fix the read server certificate B: certificate verify failed SSL error.

Getting a 405 when people POST to your maintenance page? I'll show you how to serve your facebook app's maintenance page for POST requests.

A guide of sort on Using Redis with Ruby on Rails

How to show how many active or idle Passenger processes your server has and display them inside your app

I recently ran into an issue with early versions of NGINX not setting the Content-Length header for 201 responses. I fixed the bug using Rack.

How to fix long key lengths in MySQL using Rails migrations

Optimizing your MySQL queries can be a pain. Using these plugins can help!

If you ever need to calculate if an image is landscape or portrait, you can use this code

Ever get sick of Textmate showing you the beachball of doom for 5 seconds whenever you focus on it. Fix it.

How many times have you looked at some ruby code and found strange variable names (eg. $0, $:, etc) and wondered what they meant? Well here's an explanation

I've just released MailStyle, a plugin to ease the pain of writing HTML emails in rails.

Just a quick tip to prevent ThinkingSphinx from returning nil results for deleted records and borking your app.

A short tutorial on how to create PDFs in Ruby on Rails using Prince XML

RubyFu is a new community based ruby news site. RubyFu is not made to compete with RubyFlow, but to complement it :)

A few tips on how to speed up your development time in rails

Bort has finally be updated Rails 2.2 along with some more goodies.

I've just pushed a new version of Bort to github with OpenID integration. Rejoice!

Bort 0.2 released - Includes role requirements, css field with common selectors and easier plugin installation.

Bort is a base rails application with common functionality prebuilt. Includes restful auth, password recovery, default capistrano recipe, sessions table, setting YAML file and more

A tutorial covering how to create and validate multiple models with one form

A short tutorial covering how to use jQuery with Rails on Rails applications instead of the prepackaged Prototype/script.aculo.us combo.

The second article in a series about converting videos with ruby on rails and FFMPEG

An article covering how to use SWFUpload, Paperclip and Ruby on Rails along with a test application to see how things can fit together.

An article covering the use of the newly released Phusion Passenger (mod_rails) with Capistrano

An article covering useful plugins and resources for building a social network site in Rails. About twelve plugins are covered.

A small guide on using Paperclip to manage your uploads. Paperclip: Attaching Files in Rails