To show the MySQL default character set you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW VARIABLES LIKE...
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...
You need to restart Eclipse.
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...
Recently, we had an interesting lunch-break with the rails 3.1. asset-pipeline in production mode. Daniel Zahn made a...
There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface
cURL makes a web request and shows you the response body. You can redirect the response body to /dev/null just...
Consider you have a website vhost listening to www.example.com, redirecting all incoming requests that do not talk about the configured...
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...
When you don't know which options are available, but need to have an option selected, use this step.
Ever wondered how Rails talks to itself in a Cucumber feature? In Rails 3 you can do it like this...
I believe that when WEBrick has trouble bringing up your Rails application, the WEBrick component that is supposed to print...
If you have any class which requires access to some path methods generated by your routes. Even though you could...
Just add the parameter :post to the visit method: visit publish_entry_path, :post
Rails doesn't know which host it is running on. For generating links, it strips the hostname off the request...
When the Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts...
Date::Performance is a gem that replaces various method in Ruby's Date class with fast C implementations. Unfortunately it...
If you use Nginx with SSL and get an intermediate certificate with your certificate you have to do this:
Attached is a working config to deploy an application with Capistrano that needs to monitor Resque workers with God.
The Capybara API is somewhat hard for parse for a list of methods you can call on a Capybara node...
tl;dr: Always have your attachment path start with :rails_root/storage/#{Rails.env}#{ENV['RAILS_TEST_NUMBER']}/. The directory where you...