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The Rails logger will store its content in a buffer and write it into the file system every 1000 lines...
In order to monitor a Rake task using God your Rake file must write a file with its process ID...
In order to open a MySQL shell without the need to enter user and password, you can say the following...
The colors in Rails log files are helpful when watching them but, since they are ANSI color codes like ^[[4...
There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface
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You can use this shell command: uniq -u input.txt output.txt
This will reduce the filesize of foo and bar to 0 bytes: truncate -s0 foo bar If the files do...
When you run rake db:create and get this error message Couldn't create database for {"encoding"=>"utf8", "username"=>"root...
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whatsmydns.net is an online service that allows you to instantly perform a DNS lookup to check a hostnames current IP...
When you put a Rake task into lib/tasks, but running it fails with... Don't know how to build task...
cURL makes a web request and shows you the response body. You can redirect the response body to /dev/null just...
Consider you have a website vhost listening to www.example.com, redirecting all incoming requests that do not talk about the configured...
We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...
Here is a way to create a duplicate of one database, with all its tables and their data, under a...
If you using gpg for your encrypted backup and it fails after you put it in crontab make sure you...
You can use fold: fold -sw 60 You can now paste your texts. fold will echo them back, word-wrapped...
When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...
The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...
If you get an error "Adress already in use" with autossh check with lsof or netstat if something already listen...
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...
If you have different users for different servers, don't use set :user. Encode the username into the server definition...