Note: In Rails 3+ you can use Array.wrap instead of the solution here. In the past you could use Array...
I found a nice script on crazylittlehacks and modified it slightly. Put the attachment to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x and run...
XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of...
If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
Copy the attached Ruby code to config/initializers, or paste it into your IRB console. You can now dump any two...
Update: Staticmatic will not be further developed. They suggest to switch to middleman. If you need to make a static...
Put the attached file into config/initializers/ to be able to say created_within on any ActiveRecord or its scope chain...
When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...
When you do a git add . and have deleted files, git won’t stage them to be commited (as deleted...
Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...
You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias...
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...
If you copy the data files of a VirtualBox machine to another PC without exporting it as an .ova appliance...
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
This card shows you how to center a float horizontally in CSS. Also: find out what techniques are available for...
If you manipulate the DOM with JavaScript and your page contains nested elements with position: relative, chances are Internet Explorer...
Recent versions of the Faker gem retrieve their strings from your locale file (e.g. config/locale/de.yml). This leads to awesome errors...
apt-get install libcurl3-dev
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...
Install FreeBSD Download a suitable image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
Capybara allows you to select DOM elements, e.g. by using field, find_field(...) or field_labeled(...): role_select = field_labeled...