Regular expressions can have something called "zero-width look-behind assertions". This means that you want a pattern to be...
Install Ruby from the Ubuntu repository: sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev \ ruby is the meta package. If you...
We're adding a script console-for to open a remote Rails console with one command. Also have a look...
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String
If you encounter above mentioned failiure message after installing the ruby-debug gem then you have to explicitly require linecache...
I pushed a new version of the Cucumber Factory gem. This new release lets you refer to a previously created...
geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...
When using the resource_controller gem you often hook onto events like this: update.before do do_something end
Copy the attached Ruby code to config/initializers, or paste it into your IRB console. You can now dump any two...
When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...
Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
Recent versions of the Faker gem retrieve their strings from your locale file (e.g. config/locale/de.yml). This leads to awesome errors...
apt-get install libcurl3-dev
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...
Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...
Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...
When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...
We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...