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If you turn on stylesheet caching, it might happen that stylesheets from different locations with different relative pathes will be...

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You have to specify the environment with -e env_name or RAILS_ENV=env_name if you want to run...

If you would like to use language specific layout (e.g. background-images) in your applications stylesheets you can achieve this...

tig path_to_file_or_files_or_path_with_wildcard

require 'open-uri' File.open('/target/path/to/downloaded.file', "wb") do |file| file.write open('http://example.com/your.file').read end Basic Authentication

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Look here for informations how you can show the MySQL default character set. At first you need the Amazon RDS...

Web fonts are awesome. After being restricted to Arial for two decades there is finally a cross-browser way to...

You must reconfigure the guest so it will get its own IP address: Shutdown the guest In the guest's...

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When you install Type 1 fonts (like makandra's corporate typeface), they won't show up in OpenOffice. OpenOffice requires...

To show the MySQL default character set you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW VARIABLES LIKE...

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You can convert git commits into patch files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or...

If you want to know the exact hits on your website (or whatever logfile you want) for a specific date...

In order to monitor a Rake task using God your Rake file must write a file with its process ID...

In case you have sensitive data within your RDS instance, you want to use encrypted connections between your application and...

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Recently, we had an interesting lunch-break with the rails 3.1. asset-pipeline in production mode. Daniel Zahn made a...

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There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface

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When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...

Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...