Testing with IE6, IE7 and IE8 on VirtualBox | Shape Shed

You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.

Though all major browsers offer inspection tools you may like the Firebug style. Also, for me this is a lot better than the IE8 develop...

We had a conversation about the fact that the 'TDD is about testing vs TDD is about design" debate that keeps popping up, especially now in the Ruby community.

Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system. Unfortunately, setting these virtual machines up without Microsoft's VirtualPC can be extremely diffi...

Ubuntu has a package mysql-sandbox that lets you install multiple MySQL versions into your user home:

1. Install mysql-sandbox

sudo apt install mysql-sandbox

2. Download the version of MySQL you want to use from mysql.com:
   <https://...

Slow test suites are a major pain point in projects, often due to RSpec and FactoryBot. Although minitest and fixtures are sometimes viewed as outdated, they can greatly improve test speed.

We adopted a project using minitest and fixtures, ...

If you are using RVM on a Mac and cannot enter 8+ bit characters on an IRB or Rails console, you are missing the readline package. You will need to re-install your Ruby to fix this:

rvm remove ree
rvm package install readline
rvm in...

Although you can access many symbols using the AltGr key you may be missing some, like the en-dash (–) or em-dash (—). You can use a compose key for them instead...

When giving a presentation with a projector it is sometimes better to use a dual screen layout instead of a cloned display. If you still want a preview of the projector screen on your primary screen, you can do this:

0. Install x11vnc and a vnc...

Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer will repeat elements with position: fixed on every printed page (see attached example).

The internet knows no way to do this in Webkit browsers (Chrome, Safari). These browsers will only render the element o...

I recently noticed that better_errors allows you to to open files from within your favorite editor. However it was not so easy to get rubymine:// links to work ...