I pushed a new version of the Cucumber Factory gem. This new release lets you refer to a previously created...
geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...
My front audio output would not work even though the front mic input did fine. The Pulse Audio mixer (= Ubuntu...
Update: Staticmatic will not be further developed. They suggest to switch to middleman. If you need to make a static...
When you do a git add . and have deleted files, git won’t stage them to be commited (as deleted...
Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
Recent versions of the Faker gem retrieve their strings from your locale file (e.g. config/locale/de.yml). This leads to awesome errors...
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...
Internet Explorer 5+ is aware of conditional comments that let you target HTML for selected versions of IE. For example...
We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...
Run rspec-and-cucumber from any project directory to run both RSpec and Cucumber. If available, rspec_spinner or cucumber...
The trick is this: send a low-resolution version of your image to the screen, and a high-resolution version...
If you want to play music or sounds from a browser, your choice is to use either Flash or the...
Make sure you understand differences between git's areas (such as stash, workspace, upstream, etc.) and what commands affect which...
Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.
We often have a separate production branch that lags a bit behind the more cutting edge main branch. Sometimes you...
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...
An alert alternative for jQuery that looks good. Apprise is a very simple, fast, attractive, and unobtrusive way to communicate...
You set a flash message and it shows up as it should. However, it is displayed again the next time...
Airbrake (formerly Hoptoad) already ignores certain errors like InvalidAuthenticityToken by default (see Airbrake::Configuration::IGNORE_DEFAULT).\ To ignore additional classes...
To display a list of your current Git remotes and their endpoints, you can say git remote -v