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There are several options, but most of them are impractical. The best way is to use the :ruby filter:
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After starting the Rails server in a freshly generated Rails 3.1 project you could see an error message such as...
Note: This applies specifically to MySQL. In PostgreSQL for example, this is not an issue. If you care about performance...
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Clearance is a gem that provides authentication functionality (e.g. login, logout). This note explains, how the clearance login, logout and...
Look here for informations how you can show the MySQL default character set. At first you need the Amazon RDS...
Web fonts are awesome. After being restricted to Arial for two decades there is finally a cross-browser way to...
You must reconfigure the guest so it will get its own IP address: Shutdown the guest In the guest's...
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If you encounter the error message above when running cucumber, just execute... rm rerun.txt ...in the Rails directory.
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When using the screen tool you may be unable to start a screen session but instead encounter an error:
To show the collation of your tables you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW TABLE STATUS...
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