This tool is used on our application servers (and called when deploying) but it also works locally. Just call dumple...

Note that this sounds good but is not good at all when hooking tasks on cap deploy (see this article...

In order to bring up a textual description of a Capistrano task you can say cap -e taskname ... where taskname...

When you use the send_file method to send a local file to the browser, you can save resources on...

getfirebug.com

You know Firebug as a Firefox extension but there is also a "Lite" version which runs purely off JavaScript.

babushka.me

The idea is this: you take a job that you'd rather not do manually, and describe it to babushka...

This might be due to AppArmor denying the MySQL server access to most of the filesystem. You can instead use...

In case https://www.rubydoc.info/ is to slow or offline, you can also read a gem documentation offline. Start a server...

Find-as-you-type boxes are usually built by observing changes in a text field, and querying the server via...

From time to time we're convinced that an error must be very close to the network card, OS IP...

It's that simple to allow one of your Linux users to run a single command as UID 0:

This is for those who already own an SSL certificate (e.g. using it in the Apache HTTP Server) and need...

When you are using Apache for development, it still accepts connections from everyone in the same network as you.

imperialviolet.org

In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been introduced as...

When your site is mapped into the URL-space of another server using mod_proxy, ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, all requests...

These steps are now part of Spreewald. The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the...

linux.die.net

If you need to find out which of your local commits are not on the remote server do this:

In order to redirect all requests from redirecting-host.com to desired-host.com while keeping path and query params unchanged, change your Apache...

You configured authentication in your Apache configuration that requires username and password but you want a single IP address, host...

So you added a new callback to your model that (e.g.) caches some data when it is saved. Now you...

github.com

Ruby's net/http is setup to never verify SSL certificates by default. Most ruby libraries do the same. That means...

opensoul.org

Sometimes, you just need to shoot from the hip…or deploy your local changes without committing them. Put this snippet...

Have you guys ever done the math on that? You asked or allowed for 24000 interruptions from literally every human...

robots.thoughtbot.com

Selenium has been the siren song that continually calls out to us. Unfortunately, in practice we’ve been unable to...