Sometimes you need to restart the Gnome panel, e.g. when you installed a new Gnome panel widget but the widget...

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ProgressBar is a simple Ruby library for displaying progress of long-running tasks on the console. It is intended to...

If Sunspot does not work and fails with a backtrace similar to this: /project/shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/rsolr-1.0.6/lib/rsolr/client.rb:227:in `adapt_response' /project/shared/bundle/ruby/1.8/gems/rsolr-1.0.6/lib/rsolr/client.rb:164...

Most of the JavaScript snippets have code that manipulates the DOM. For that reason dom manipulating javascript code should have...

If you want to move a complete commit from one repository to another (and you don't want to add...

If you defined your association via class Article belongs_to "category" end and you try Article.scoped(:include => :category)

In order to chain greps on log files that are opened via tail -f test.log you have to use the...

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Saying git diff only shows unstaged changes relative to the index (or HEAD if the index is empty, alternatively any...

The following snippet demonstrates how you could create excel files (with spreadsheet gem) and format columns so that they follow...

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This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...

It might sound trivial, but there is no such thing as a "hover" or "mouseover" state on touch devices. If...

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Code coverage for Ruby 1.9 with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

Sometimes you want one distinct version of RubyGems to be installed to replicate the same behavior across multiple servers.

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addyosmani.github.com

Twitter's Bootstrap CSS blueprint as a jQuery UI theme. Even if you don't want to use Bootstrap as...

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github.com

Use the command geordi migrate to migrate your databases and to prepare them before running tests. The abbrevation geordi m...

Let's say you have commits that change a file (and looking at the commit details show you the changes...

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A short tutorial for XPath. It's the first XPath introduction that ever stuck with me. Also see XPath in...

Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\

In cucumber you are able to run features in whatever directory you like. This also includes executing features in subdirectories...

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I have no idea how it's supposed to work (or why the don't have a print CSS), but...

Under XFCE keys like tilde are dead by default, which is impractical for programming and terminal work. To get rid...

Using .downcase or .upcase on strings containing umlauts does not work as expected in Ruby versions before 2.4. It leaves...

This is for you if you get this error: cucumber.yml was found, but could not be parsed. Please refer to...