Boot partitions from installations prior to the 16.04 era are terribly small. When you install updates and encounter errors due...
When you find yourself constantly ignoring a RubyMine warning, you can simple disable that warning and de-clutter your editor...
geordi delete_dumps [directory] Recursively search for files ending in *.dump and offer to delete those. When no...
You might have some trouble running a Rails LTS 2 app with MySQL 5.7. If you don't want to...
MySQL and MariaDB have an SQL mode setting which changes how MySQL behaves. The SQL mode value is comprised of...
On your local system that only hosts non-critical development data and only you have access to, you can store...
Rails offers a way to prepend (or append) view paths for the current request. This way, you can make the...
The httpclient gem comes with a custom SSL cert store. While an customizable, application-level cert store is great when...
When you have string contents (e.g. a generated binary stream, or data from a remote source) that you want to...
You need to update a lof gems. Make sure you don't have any version constraints in your...
Running rails server will start a local server that you can access via http://localhost:3000. When you are working...
In Spreewald 1.10.4+, nested patiently blocks are now patient. Here is an example: patiently do outer_code patiently do
Form fields can be rendered as noneditable by setting the disabled or the readonly attribute. Be aware of the differences...
Your default postgres user is named like your linux user. That default user has limited access privileges, which can cause...
Trying to open a vnc window with geordi geordi vnc ended up with this error: > VNC viewer could not be...
mysql> SELECT @@global.version; +------------------+ | @@global.version | +------------------+ | 5.6.30 | +------------------+ 1 row in set (0,00 sec) MySQL 5.6 Reference Manual says "BLOB and TEXT...
Use bundler > 1.15 to fix Gem::LOADED_SPECS_MUTEX (NameError). Given the following project: ruby -v ruby 1.8.7
Here is how to use Chromedriver without libraries like selenium-webdriver. This can be useful for debugging. The following example...
If you want to make a screenshot of a website that works well in print or on a high-DPI...
When flagging a spec that will be implemented later as pending, include a failing spec body or RSpec 3 will...
When a Rails controller action should handle both HTML and JSON responses, do not use request.xhr? to decide that. Use...
I recently had fun with replacing a custom video plattform ("mycustomtv") in one of our applications. I learned a lot...
Understanding your type of cronjob Some cronjobs must only run on a single server. E.g. when you run nightly batch...
When installing gems, a lot of time is spent building locally installed documentation that you probably never use.