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Back when Steak was first released, Capybara didn’t have any of the nice RSpec helpers it does now. A...
The Ubuntu Documentation on LaTeX says, that the packages tetex are no longer supported. You can install the alternative texlive...
Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...
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If you just upgraded to Bundler 10.0.10 you might get the following error when bringing up Rails: /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/psych.rb:148:in...
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Sometimes you can make your life easier by not allowing a record attribute to be changed after the record was...
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blueprint is DevStructure’s workhorse tool that looks inside popular package managers, finds changes you made to configuration files, and...
Specify these gem versions in your Gemfile: gem 'cucumber', '~> 1.3.0' gem 'cucumber-rails', '= 0.3.2' # max version for Rails 2
I don't like those buttons inside the header area of a message that Thunderbird 3 put there. Though the...
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If you plan to insert an existing PDF into a new LaTeX document that you will compile to PDF, you...
Merging .po-files with Git is painful. There have been attempts of making Git more clever when trying to merge...
The shell variable PS1 holds your bash prompt. You might want to change it to serve your needs best. Here...
Now allows to list transition paths from and to arbitrary states.
Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions. Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated. Please...
With SNI, you can have many virtual hosts with HTTPS sharing the same IP address and port, and each one...
If in your application your users pass along params that result in filenames, like invoices/generated?number=123. This could be...
Pie sometimes does not properly redraw elements upon changes. This often happens when the change comes from somewhere further up...
JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives...
Install OpenSSH Server: sudo apt-get install openssh-server To check if the server is running you should get no...