If you get the above error when running tests in bulk (but not individually), it's actually the fault of...
"Classic" Excel (XLS) has a magic limit of 65535 rows per worksheet. This was fixed in XLSX but the version...
tig path_to_file_or_files_or_path_with_wildcard
Forms with many inputs (600+ in my case) become extremely unresponsive on an iPad, up to the point where it...
If you get an error like this: Unable to launch /home/bruce/Projects/myproject/tmp/capybara/capybara-201110311210111407691101.html ... update your launchy gem. It failed for us in...
After starting the Rails server in a freshly generated Rails 3.1 project you could see an error message such as...
To show the collation of your tables you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW TABLE STATUS...
You can convert git commits into patch files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or...
Please note that you can break your system with this! This is not recommended. Sometimes the package repository has errors...
Using git rebase can be painful but luckily you can resort to cheating with git reset and committing anew.
Since version 11.10 Opera provides support for linear gradients using -o-linear-gradient. The syntax is pretty similar to Mozilla...
The colors in Rails log files are helpful when watching them but, since they are ANSI color codes like ^[[4...
There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface
If Rails or Rake are complaining about a missing gem that is listed in your Gemfile.lock and the listed version...
Sometimes you may need to figure out what branches exist on a remote repository so you can pull them down...
We are consistently having trouble with selenium-webdriver > 2.5.0 where whenever we try to select an option from a Capybara...
Consider you have a website vhost listening to www.example.com, redirecting all incoming requests that do not talk about the configured...
ExecJS lets you run JavaScript code from Ruby. It automatically picks the best runtime available to evaluate your JavaScript program...
We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...
Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...
These methods are available to you: page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.dismiss page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.text # the confirmation text Spreewald gives you steps like these:
Grit gives you object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby.