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Some helpers for poking around at your Capybara driven browser's cookies in integration tests. Supports Capybara's bundled drivers...

When using Rails to truncate strings, you may end up with strings that are still too long for their container...

Possible Reason 1: parallel_tests - running more processes than features If you run old versions of parallel_tests with more...

Consider you have a file that uses improper encoding on special characters. Example: You see the latin1 version "ñ" for...

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ProgressBar is a simple Ruby library for displaying progress of long-running tasks on the console. It is intended to...

If you want to move a complete commit from one repository to another (and you don't want to add...

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Saying git diff only shows unstaged changes relative to the index (or HEAD if the index is empty, alternatively any...

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This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...

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Gem to get Rails 3's new ActiveRecord query interface (where, order) and the new scope syntax (chaining scope definitions...

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Gem to get Ruby 1.9 features in Ruby 1.8.

It might sound trivial, but there is no such thing as a "hover" or "mouseover" state on touch devices. If...

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Code coverage for Ruby 1.9 with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

Sometimes you want one distinct version of RubyGems to be installed to replicate the same behavior across multiple servers.

Let's say you have commits that change a file (and looking at the commit details show you the changes...

Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\

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I have no idea how it's supposed to work (or why the don't have a print CSS), but...

Our gitpt script to generate git commits from Pivotal Tracker stories has been tweaked and polished and is now part...

Using .downcase or .upcase on strings containing umlauts does not work as expected in Ruby versions before 2.4. It leaves...

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Firefox 3.6 users will receive update notifications in April offered through the browser’s internal updating service that will update...

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ExpandAnimations is a LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Impress extension to expand presentation animations before exporting to PDF. This way the exported PDF will...

jQuery UI's date picker and date time picker doesn't work on touch interfaces. Solution 1: Use Mobiscroll

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Ruby bindings for Sundown, a fast and full-featured Markdown parser that lets you define renders for arbitrary output formats...

If you get this error while deploy and you are sure the Gemfile.lock is in the version control check your...

To reduce download time, application servers usually serve content using gzip compression, if the browser supports it.