Sometimes the order in which strings appear on a page matters to you. Spreewald gives you steps like these:

When you do tags with acts-as-taggable-on and want to preload associated tags, you can do so with...

Did you use the :select option in a find, and forgot to include foo?

SSL in Rails 3 is non-obvious.

Note: We are talking about Machinist 1 here, Machinist 2 may have solved this or might require a different approach...

You need to install the following packages before you can build the Nokogiri gem: sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev...

If you want to see how long your database queries actually take, you need to disable MySQL's query cache...

If you get an error message like that you are missing the Aspell files a specific language:

If you have problems with SSH session timing out, add the following to your /etc/.ssh/config: Host * ServerAliveInterval 55 ServerAliveCountMax 2

Capybara's has_css? matcher has a couple of options you might find useful. Check that a selector appears a...

Hooks lets you define hooks declaratively in your ruby class. You can add callbacks to your hook, which will be...

Even when you're using bundler, it might be significant in which order your gems are listed in your Gemfile...

This post will describe how I stumbled upon a code path in the Linux kernel which allows external programs to...

[ ] [ ]= ** ! ~ + - * / % + - >> << & ^ | <= < > >= <=> == === != =~ !~ && || .. ... ? : = %= { /= -= += |= &= >>= <<= *= &&= ||= **= defined? not or and if unless while until begin/end For more information see Table 18.4 in The Pragmatic Programmer's...

A good tool to generate strong passwords and secrets is "apg". You can get it with sudo apt-get install...

Ruby gem that provides an AR-style interface for the Pivotal Tracker API.

You need to install the following packages before you can build the Paperclip gem: sudo apt-get install imagemagick librmagick...

If you have several submit elements (inputs or buttons with type="submit") that each cause different things to happen (e.g...

If you need to call a state_machine event and do not want to re-define resource_controller's create...

If a SSH shell dies (from timeout for example), you cannot kill it with the usual CTRL-C or CTRL...

These steps are now part of Spreewald. This note describes a Cucumber step that lets you write this:

Note that you should disable the Java plug-in in your browsers after installation. Ubuntu >= 12.04 Java 11

A popular ruby idiom I keep stumbling upon is def do_some_thing_for(values) values = Array(values)

Both these approaches will keep your GET parameters -- and will only work for GET requests. Capybara: When /^I reload the...