We are changing our name from Hoptoad to Airbrake. You see, some folks much larger than us reached out and...
VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or...
With gem dependency it is possible to check the dependencies for your gem before you install it.
When you generate a URL in a mailer view, ActionMailer will raise an error unless you previously configured it which...
First option is to install it with your package manager: apt-get install vim-puppet vim-addons install puppet
Install Ruby from the Ubuntu repository: sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev \ ruby is the meta package. If you...
cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in...
Thunderbird 5 brings a custom chrome on Windows Vista/7 that uses translucent Aero decorations on toolbars and menubars. Here is...
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
If you are exchanging files with a client via Dropbox you do not need to access the Web page every...
To test if you can connect to a host using password authentication and explicitly deny public key authentication:
In order to rename your Ubuntu box, replace all occurences of the the old name in the following two files...
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German...
In shell scripts you can use $1 to refer to the first argument, $2 for the second, etc. If you...
This is somewhat similar to the touch command of Linux: FileUtils.touch 'example.txt', :mtime => Time.now - 2.hours If you omit the :mtime...
If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have...
When some of your Google contacts are no longer synchronized with your e-mail client or mobile phone, those contacts...
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
My RubyMine (and it seems like many other Java GUI applications) crashes the Compiz window decorator almost every time on...
Get "PuTTY Link" and "Pageant" (an SSH key agent) from the PuTTY download page. Run pageant.exe, find its icon inside...
This card explains how to upgrade an existing RubyMine installation to a newer version. If you're installing RubyMine for...
If you are connected with a network that forbids e-mail traffic but allows SSH, you can tunnel your e...