Here is a gist that demonstrates how easy it is to transform text using #gsub and a block with Ruby. "Scs Epc Score".gsub (/scs|epc/i) { |i| i.upcase } # => SCS EPC Score For more helpful string extensions in Ruby check out our Ruby Gem on GitHub...

If you are testing using Test:Unit (rather than RSpec) and you're using Ruby 1.9.* colorized output of your tests using Autotest will not be immediately available. Since, 1.9 comes with mini test the test/unit/ui/console/testrunner.rb script is not loaded...

require 'yaml' # Nested YAML structure from something-nested.yml # # nested: # key: value # key_two: value_two # Procedural Approach to building a single Hash from nested YAML data structure. @yaml = YAML.load_file("something-nested...

# Define a class with a class method "find" # Usage # Apple.find("macintosh") class Apple def self.find(variety) # code goes here end end # Same as above but notice the lack of self prefix before the method name # Usage # Apple.find("macin...

Changing issue state in git commit message for Github issues fixes #xxx fixed #xxx fix #xxx closes #xxx close #xxx closed #xxx Example git commit -am'complete bug fix closes #123'

Regular Expression that Matches Email Addresses: /\b[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}\b/

The following tips and tricks can be put into your .vimrc file Remap jj to esc imap jj <Esc> Quickly leave edit mode and back to visual mode with jj. This is probably the fastest key combination possible and one of the most frequent key combinatio...

I had an old version of rvm installed and wanted to upgrade. So old in fact that the resource for upgrading no longer existed. rvm update just returned a 301, redirect. Luckily, the following worked # checks out from repo rvm update --head # will re...

I love the Rails reload! function when in the console. I need it in Irb. To get it back this is what I did. If you don't already have an .irbrc file in your home directory, just create it. vim ~/.irbrc or textmate if you prefer mate ~/.irbrc Add this...

Workflow git checkout -b _new_branch_name # do some work and commit changed git checkout master git branch -d _new_branch_name # doh... i meant to merge first Fortunately, you can easily recover from this mistake. git reflog 395b1ea HEAD@{0}: checkout...