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After running bundler / gem install I could not load nokogiri lately. It died with cannot load such file -- nokogiri/nokogiri.
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Capistrano 2 brings the shell command which allows you to run commands on your deployment targets. There is also invoke...
Simply give the select helper an option :disabled, passing either a single value or an array. You need to specify...
The linked page lists and explains global Ruby "dollar" variables, such as: $: (load path) $* (ARGV) $? (Last exit status) $$ (PID) $~ (MatchData...
Ruby 1.9 brings a shorter way to define lambdas using the -> operator: twice = -> (x) { 2 * x } twice.call(5) # => 10
Connect to your memcached host. (AWS elasticache is memcached) telnet foohost23.cs2631.0001.euw1.cache.amazonaws.com 11211 Once you're connected, find out which 'slabs...
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git shortlog -s -n [commit-range] -n, --numbered Sort output according to the number of commits per author
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This trick might be useful to implement more complicated directives in AngularJS. I needed it to do drag'n'drop...
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In specs, the session never persists but is always a new object for each request. Data put into the session...
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The way Rational#to_s works on Ruby has changed from Ruby 1.9 on. Here is how to get the...
Unfortunately, Capybara does not offer a switch to disable cookies in your test browser. However, you can work around that...
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