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You can write regular expressions some different ways, e.g. /regex/ and %r{regex}. For examples, look here. Remember that it...

popthis is awesome when used with inaction_mailer. Setup inaction_mailer Install the gem: sudo gem install popthis

The Git stash does not work like a one-slot clipboard and you might shoot yourself in the foot if...

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To pause and send a task to the background ctrl+z to reactivate the task fg to run task in...

wiki.github.com

The following example is from the Cucumber wiki: Given a blog post named "Random" with Markdown body """ Some Title, Eh...

Use the attached initializer to do stuff like this str = "abc" str.imbue(:foo => 'foo value', :bar => 'bar value')

So you screwed up and copied Paperclip secrets from one project to another. Here is a semi-automatic, painful way...

Capybara does not play nice with sites that have some actions protected by SSL, some not. A popular way to...

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Our awesome collection of rspec helpers (formerly known as "spec_candy.rb") is now available as a gem. It works, it is...

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The following counts all the lines in all *.rb files in the app directory. Run several of these commands to...

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Show all sockets (Unix & TCP/UDP), both listening and established ones: netstat -anp To limit the output e.g. to listening TCP...

This is called "cherry-picking". git cherry-pick commit-sha1 Note that since branches are nothing but commit pointers, cherry...

To delete a local branch git branch -d the_local_branch To remove a remote branch (if you know what...

stackoverflow.com

Reverting a commit means creating a new commit that undoes the old changes. Imagine the following commit history:

gnuu.org

YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just...

The following Sass will do it: hr color: #ddd background-color: #ddd border: none height: 1px

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ruportbook.com

Ruport’s acts_as_reportable module provides support for using ActiveRecord for data collection. You can use it to get...

When doing a query like this: SELECT id FROM users WHERE (users.id IN (899,1084,1095,100,2424,2429,2420...

weblog.rubyonrails.org

Rails 3.0 has been underway for a good two years, so it’s with immense pleasure that we can declare...

github.com

An alternative to this technique is using VCR. VCR allows you to record and replay real HTTP responses, saving you...

businesswire.com

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will continue not to charge royalties for...

bitbucket.org

String manipulation extensions for the Underscore.js javascript library.

This will tunnel HTTP requests to one given domain and port through an intermediary SSH server: ssh -L 8080:targethost...