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When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or an error occurs.
However, you can send a command signal to the process to have it show its progress so far.

From another terminal, simply call (be ro...

To show the collation of your tables you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM database;

mysql> SHOW TABLE STATUS FROM test;
+-------------+--------+---------+------------+------+----------------+--------...

Sometimes I ran across a GitHub merge request of a gem where it was not completely obvious in which version the change was released. This might be the case for a bugfix PR that you want to add to your project.

Git can help you to find the next gi...

When your application is running on a multi-server setup, application logs are stored per server (unless you choose a centralized logging solution).
Here is a Capistrano task that connects to all servers and prints logs to your terminal like this:...

In a Rails application, *_spec.rb files get special treatment depending on the file's directory. E.g. when you put a spec in spec/controllers your examples will have some magic context like controller, post or get that appears out of now...

A Rake task appears in rake -T if it has a description:

desc 'Compile assets'
task :compile do
  ...
end

To not list it, simply omit the description:

task :compile do
  ...
end

You can also hide a Rake task that has been defi...

There may be reasons to change the locale of your Postgres cluster. A popular one is your development system's locale being used by default (which may be annoying). Here is how to do that.

Beware: By following the steps below, you will drop and r...

You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying to.

Simply add

set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
set :copy_exclude, [ '.git' ]

to your config/deploy.rb and Capistr...

When you run code inside a $watch expression that forces a repaint (e.g. by computing an element's width, or running something like...

Let's say you have a form that you render a few times but you would like to customize your submit section each time. You can achieve this by rendering your form partial as layout and passing in a block. Your template or partial then serves as the ...