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cortesi - The impact of language choice on github projects
Are there major differences between projects in different languages? Is it possible to quantify these differences? I decided to try to gather some hard numbers.
The challenging setup of an offshore project
After managing a few agile projects from India and learning the tricks of the trade, I have been wondering why life is much easier when you are working closely with the client as compared to working offshore. What worried me more was that I had to...
chromedriver-helper gem in Gemfile might break you selenium tests (of other projects)
Summary: Don't add chromedriver-helper to the Gemfile
- the executables might break your tests in projects where
chromedriver-helperis not in the Gemfile - developers with different chrome versions will have problems using the same `chromedr...
Github: How to find the Readme for a certain version of a gem
When a gem author releases a new version to Rubygems, usually a tag with the version number (e.g. v1.2.0) is created an pushed to Github, so everyone can check out or take a look at the source code at this point version release at a later time.
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List of handy Ruby scripts to transcode different file types (often by using GPT)
It's 2024 and we have tools like ffmpeg, imagemagick and GPT readily available. With them, it's easy to convert texts, images, audio and video clips into each other.
For the everyday use without any parameter tweaking I'm using a collection of ti...
Migrate gem tests from Travis CI to Github Actions with gemika
We currently test most of our gems on Travis CI, but want to migrate those tests to Github Actions. This is a step-by-step guide on how to do this.
Note that this guide requires the gem to use gemika.
- Go...
rsl/stringex ยท GitHub
Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way around unicode and fancy characters.
Examples for stringex's String#to_url method:
# A simple prelude
"simple English".to_url ...
JavaScript: Testing whether the browser is online or offline
You can use the code below to check whether the browser can make connections to the current site:
await isOnline() // resolves to true or false
Limitations of navigator.onLine
While you can use the...
List of Helpful RubyMine Shortcuts
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: Search for any symbol in your application, like CSS classes, Ruby classes, methods, helpers etc.
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