Rails: Easily add autocomplete to forms

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Intro Since resources in my rails app can easily reach several thousand and million entries, I wanted a way to easily select one in a form. A quick google search led me to this excellent post by releu: http://gistflow.com/posts/428-autocomplete-with-rails-and-select2 While it…

Using Bootstrap 3 and Simple Form in Rails 4, Upgrading from Bootstrap 2 to 3

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Bootstrap 3 was released not so long ago. As I always like to be up-to-date with software to use the newest features I had to use it in my current Rails 4 project. When I started the Rails 4 app…

Rails 4: ActiveSupport::BacktraceCleaner, towards better documentation

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The official documentation for the class can be found at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/BacktraceCleaner.html. The problem However, trying to implement the proposed example code throws an error. Hmpfh. The problem here is the line “String”.gsub expects a pattern as shown at http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/String.html#method-i-gsub. Rails.root, however, returns…