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Using stock ruby with rbenv

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While migrating to ruby 1.9, I started using rbenv. I was wondering how it would handle my stock ubuntu ruby 1.8. It works out of the box with the rbenv “sys...

Devise, SSL requirements and post data

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I am using rails 2.3.8, devise 1.0.11 and ssl_requirements 0.1.0. I am having strange behaviour when mixing devise with ssl_requirements. When a form posts t...

Scaling Agile

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I have worked in small agile teams, and it does indeed work a lot better than the classical waterfall & hierarchic environment. When speaking with other ...

A useful link to find free pictures

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While I was looking for photos for an article on blog for mes-courses.fr, I found this site : http://www.photo-libre.fr. There are a lot of pictures, both €-...

Order of execution of before blocks in RSpec

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I discovered that before blocks in RSpec’s examples are executed in the order they are declared. There is no great deal about it, but it can be useful when u...

external gem rails generator not found

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When trying to use devise 1.0.11 with rails 2.3.8 and bundler 1.0.10, I got the error could not find generator ... when running bundle exec script/generate d...