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Spreewald's patiently repeats the given block again and again until it either passes or times out.

To set a cookie in your test browser for cucumber tests, you need to know which driver you are using...

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Rails understands a :limit options when you create columns in a migration. Its meaning depends on the column type, and...

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Guide how to make fixes in other people's GitHub repositories. It's basically "Open Source Development 101".

Given you use Capistrano together with bundler to automatically install your gems when deploying. I recently had the problem that...

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MongoMapper is a MongoDB adapter for Ruby. We've forked it so it works for Rails 2.3.x applications running...

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Rails 2.3.16+ on Ruby 1.9 causes warnings like this: .../gems/activesupport-2.3.17/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety.rb:22: warning: regexp match /.../n against to UTF-8 string...

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Stringex is a gem that offers some extensions to Ruby's String class. Ruby 1.9 compatible, and knows its way...

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UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion, normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.

If bundle install shows the following message for you ... Error Bundler::HTTPError during request to dependency API ... upgrade to Bundler...

In our continued quest to extract proven code snippets from makandropedia into tested and upgradable gems, we have released Edge...

The Edge Rider gem gives your relations a method #traverse_association which returns a new relation by "pivoting" around a...

When creating an ActiveRecord with .new, .create or create!, you cannot set the ID attribute (note: When using Machinist's...

If git gives you an error message such as "fatal: bad config file line 123 in .git/config" after you tried...

Spreewald now comes with a step that tests if a form field is visible: Then the "Due date" field should...

Consul 0.6.1+ gives your Power class a number of static methods that behave neutrally in case Power.current is nil. This...

Consul 0.6.1+ gives you a way to dynamically access and query powers for a given name, model class or record...

We recently had a problem on a Memcache cluster, where one of the servers showed a significantly worse cache hit...