Our collection of the most useful Cucumber steps, Spreewald, now supports exact matching of form fields and lets you use...

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If you need to find out which of your local commits are not on the remote server do this:

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I was recently confronted with the task of creating a two-column liquid layout with a header and footer in...

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The ‘merge.*.driver` variable’s value is used to construct a command to run to merge ancestor’s version, current...

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This must be one of the coolest, yet quite unknown, technique in Ruby. For certain types of problems (e.g. when...

In regular expressions you can use the zero-width pattern \b to match the beginning or end of a word...

You configured authentication in your Apache configuration that requires username and password but you want a single IP address, host...

In RSpec 2 shared_examples_for can have parameters. You can simply hand over arguments from it_behaves...

When you need to see the content of a page (i.e. not all the HTML but the relevant text body...

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If you need to export data from MySQL to a CSV, you can profit from really fast built-in methods...

Styling button tags across all major browsers is not easy. Many times you should be fine by using the native...

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Every time you amend, rebase or reset, git commits get "overwritten". However, git still allows you to checkout those commits...

So you added a new callback to your model that (e.g.) caches some data when it is saved. Now you...

Using this step definition you can check if any form field (text field, checkbox, etc) or button is disabled:

You can usually just use the eq matched to compare two numbers: expect(deal.total).to eq(120)

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How to create an infinitely nestable hash that always defaults to a new hash if a key does not map...

You can use these step definitions: Then /^I should not see an error$/ do (200 .. 399).should include(page.status_code...

When you eagerly load an association list using the .include option, and at the same time have a .where on...

If you want to find out whether a Class object is directly inheriting from another class, use superclass: ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound.super...

RSpec 1, RSpec 2 To test whether two arrays have the same elements regardless of order, RSpec 1 and 2...

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These two models can be used to access the posts and associated comments of a WordPress database.

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If you modified git's history and the change was already pushed, you will usually get a ! [rejected] my-branch...

To change the commit message of the latest (unpushed, unmerged) commit, you can use git commit --amend

Deadlocks only occur if two transactions in separate threads compete for the same rows in the database. They usually (but...