We built cucumber_spinner to have a progress bar for Cucumber features, which also outputs failing scenarios as soon as...
To test concurrent code, you will need to run multiple threads. Unfortunately, when you use blocking system calls (e.g. locks...
rspec_spinner is a progress bar for RSpec which outputs failing examples as they happen (instead of all at the...
Install gem and plugin sudo gem install parallel script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git Adapt config/database.yml test: database: xxx_test<%= ENV...
To parse XML-documents, I recommend the gem nokogiri. A few hints: xml = Nokogiri::XML(" foo bar ") parses an xml...
sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...
See the lemonade descriptions. Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems: it does not work with Sass2...
install apache sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev sudo gem install passenger sudo passenger-install-apache2-module follow the instructions
If your shell seems frozen You probably pressed Ctrl-S which stops the buffer. Try Ctrl-Q to resume.
This is about converting Haml to ERB and not the other way round which you probably want! This process can...
This starts delayed_job, hiding all the output and hiding the process in the background. rake jobs:work &>/dev/null &
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
sudo gem install zip git clone git://github.com/rtomayko/date-performance.git cd date-performance rake package:build cd dist sudo gem install...
ActsAsSolr::Post.execute(Solr::Request::Delete.new(:query => "#{Location.solr_configuration[:type_field]}:#{ModelClass}")) ActsAsSolr::Post.execute(Solr::Request::Commit.new)
Solr listens to different ports for different environments. Start Solr (and hide useless output) rake solr:start PORT=8981 &>/dev/null...
To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...
To call a class method (or static method) from an instance method: class.method() To call a class method from a...
This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class...
This note shows how to merge an ugly feature branch with multiple dirty WIP commits back into the master as...
sudo gem install rails --version="=1.2.3" rails _1.2.3_ new-project-folder
Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...
To run a single test file: rake test:units TEST=test/unit/post_test.rb rake test:functionals TEST=test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb rake test:integration TEST...
If you would like to checkout the branch groups, you can simply say this in recent versions of Git:
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]