Sometimes we need to split a full name into first name and last name parts. In Ruby String#split is the default thinking. If the name is just two parts, like "John Doe" it'd work like breeze.

Whenever working with any kind of of CMS, human readable URL comes as a natural requirement. I used to use firendly_id for this. It's a solid gem for this purpose and featureful.

It's a common scenario we need to place a UNIQUE INDEX database constraint for data integrity. But sometime the requirements comes like we need to allow null/empty values for that column.

Sometime we need to cleanup a hash based for nil values. If you're using Rails/ActiveSupport it's really easy.

Developing email templates and sending a new mail every time to view a change is very inefficient and painful. Rails comes in rescue again. With mailer preview, you can view the changes in your browser just like any other page template.

I was impatient to hard code different env values in configuration files like NginX, Monit conf. So, the birth of Capistrano ERB Uploader.