You've probably already found some Ruby symbols, often used as hash keys. Example : { :foo => 'bar' } :foo is a symbol . 'bar' is a string . But we could do : { 'foo' => 'bar' } ...

When you get user information in console, you might, sometimes, need to get sensible information. Password for example. Which can't be displayed on the screen for security reasons. The library Ruby Password allows you to do that quite easily. How...

Some time ago, a PHP wanabee (berk), Romain was looking to make a web page screenshot only with command line. Many solutions have been proposed. But my prefered one is Selenium . So I've decided to look closer into that. First you need to hav...

If you've already been using Active Record. And as you're reading this blog and this article, I suppose you have, even though you may not know you have, you know how it is powerful. In case your memory fails you, active record is the list of methods ...