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This card shows you how to format a card's content using Markdown. We use the Commonmarker interpreter, so here...

Instead of showing you two lines for each change, Git allows you to highlight changes in a line explicitly:

When updating WebMock, be prepared that your specs may send real requests into the depths of the internet unless you...

If your project manager wants to do gatekeeping on a project, as a developer you need to follow the following...

If you're responsible for gatekeeping in a projects, here is a guide, what to do. In order to reduce...

TeamViewer 6 and lower had an issue where they would see a multi-monitor Linux setup as a single wall...

We experienced problems with Sunspot and Solr on Tomcat: Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) were not correctly handled on Tomcat while...

You can now add code blocks without indentation, by using triple-backticks: ``` Code block goes here. ```

When deploying code with Capistrano (depending on your configuration) at some point Capistrano tries to check out code from your...

To access files from another branch or past commit without doing a complete checkout, you can either use

Sometimes it might be helpful to have a version history for a gem, e.g. when you want to see if...

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If your git index for some reason becomes invalid, no need to worry. Your index is corrupt when you see...

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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.