Tag: Rails (Page 4 of 4)

In previous version of Rails, it was suggested that individual tests could be run like this:

ruby -Itest test unit/test/category_test.rb

Since Rails 3, I’ve been unsuccessful at actually being able to run tests that way. Specifically, the environment dumps out a few errors messages and fails to execute the tests.

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I’ve been working on a Rails application in which I’m using Devise for the user account and authentication management library.

Out-of-the-box, Devise will throw up a browser dialog for authentication if the user fails properly login. For this particular project, I wanted to get rid of the dialog and exclusively use pages.

There were a number of small changes that I had to make to get this to work. Google wasn’t the biggest help, so here’s what I had to do in my specific case:

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If you’re doing local Rails development and are attempting to setup a database using MySQL (specifically, MySQL2) and you keep getting:

rake aborted!
uninitialized constant Mysql2

Here’s what I did to fix the problem:
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