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We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...

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Here is a way to create a duplicate of one database, with all its tables and their data, under a...

If you using gpg for your encrypted backup and it fails after you put it in crontab make sure you...

If your application raises an error like ... Couldn't connect to the Solr server at http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr. 500 "Lock...

When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...

The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...

If you get an error "Adress already in use" with autossh check with lsof or netstat if something already listen...

Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...

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If you have different users for different servers, don't use set :user. Encode the username into the server definition...

You can create a Regexp object from existing Regexp objects by using the interpolation syntax you know from strings:

Observed on Rails 2.3 and machinist 1.0.6 Like the title says, when you define the method empty? like in the...

When you don't know which options are available, but need to have an option selected, use this step.

There is a bug in Rails 3's dbconsole script, which makes the following command open a database console for...

There are many blog posts on encrypting backups, but none works for local drives. #How to Encrypt the external backup...

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Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...

Did you check Copy to Projects Asset as...

...and there is an existing file with the same name in your...

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These methods are available to you: page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.dismiss page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.text # the confirmation text Spreewald gives you steps like these:

Remember how Rails 2 came with an awesome feature that broke all code using Time.now or Time.parse? This behavior is...

Simple: Tell the application controller how to handle exceptions, here a RecordNotFound error. Do this with the following line: # application_controller.rb...

Do you have page caching enabled for the development environment and there are cached pages lying around in public/?

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Let's say you have an Explorer window showing a directory and want a cmd terminal to be opened there...

I believe that when WEBrick has trouble bringing up your Rails application, the WEBrick component that is supposed to print...

When writing a piece of reusable code, you sometimes need to have separate code for Rails 2 and Rails 3...

If you have any class which requires access to some path methods generated by your routes. Even though you could...