If you need to capture signatures on an IPad or similar device, you can use Thomas J Bradley's excellent...

So you're using multiple remotes that offer the same branch? $ git branch -a | grep my-branch remotes/something/my-branch remotes/origin/my-branch

You either have an old version of Mocha and an edge version of Rails 3.2, or you have a new...

Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...

UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.

RVM needs to be updated regularly to know of Ruby versions released since installation (or last update).

In our continued quest to extract proven code snippets from makandropedia into tested and upgradable gems, we have released Edge...

TLDR: Ruby class variables (@@foo) are dangerous in many ways. You should avoid them at all cost. See bottom of...

Microsoft provides virtual machines for different Internet Explorer versions. The images are available for various virtualization solutions, including VirtualBox...

If git gives you an error message such as "fatal: bad config file line 123 in .git/config" after you tried...

Amazon Elastic Transcoder is video transcoding in the cloud. It is designed to be a highly scalable, easy to use...

We recently had a problem on a Memcache cluster, where one of the servers showed a significantly worse cache hit...

Calling bundle update GEMNAME will update a lot more gems than you think. E.g. when you do this...

Calling bundle update (without arguments) updates all your gems at once. Given that many gems don't care about stable...

Awesome color schemes for RubyMine, Sublime Text 2 and other editors. To install the themes into your Rubymine, copy intellij...

If you say git stash, your stashed changes will be identified with an automatically generated message: $ git stash

You will get this when you are using the latest version of Rails with a recent version of Rack:

While you are probably using will_paginate to paginate ActiveRecord scopes, it can actually paginate plain Ruby arrays. The resulting...

When doing a git blame, git will blame the person who added or removed white space in a line (e.g...

Axlsx is an incredible gem to generate "Office Open XML" spreadsheet files (XLSX). Does not break on large spreadsheets and...

Previous versions of Consul exhibited strange behavior when querying a power that returns nil. Consul 0.4.2+ behaves as expected:

Tracekit is a JavaScript library that automatically normalizes and exposes stack traces for unhandled exceptions across the 5 major browsers...

When you have a Pull Request on GitHub that includes commits from another Pull Request, you will still see them...