We experienced problems with Sunspot and Solr on Tomcat: Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) were not correctly handled on Tomcat while...

This is a very general introduction to MV* Javascript frameworks. This card won't tell you anything new if you...

You can now add code blocks without indentation, by using triple-backticks: ``` Code block goes here. ```

When deploying code with Capistrano (depending on your configuration) at some point Capistrano tries to check out code from your...

To access files from another branch or past commit without doing a complete checkout, you can either use

Sometimes it might be helpful to have a version history for a gem, e.g. when you want to see if...

Ever seen this error when using Graticule? Numerical argument out of domain - acos Similarly to the to_sql problem for...

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If your git index for some reason becomes invalid, no need to worry. Your index is corrupt when you see...

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Some helpers for poking around at your Capybara driven browser's cookies in integration tests. Supports Capybara's bundled drivers...

When using Rails to truncate strings, you may end up with strings that are still too long for their container...

Possible Reason 1: parallel_tests - running more processes than features If you run old versions of parallel_tests with more...

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ProgressBar is a simple Ruby library for displaying progress of long-running tasks on the console. It is intended to...

If you want to move a complete commit from one repository to another (and you don't want to add...

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Saying git diff only shows unstaged changes relative to the index (or HEAD if the index is empty, alternatively any...

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This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...

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Gem to get Rails 3's new ActiveRecord query interface (where, order) and the new scope syntax (chaining scope definitions...

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Gem to get Ruby 1.9 features in Ruby 1.8.

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Code coverage for Ruby 1.9 with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

Sometimes you want one distinct version of RubyGems to be installed to replicate the same behavior across multiple servers.

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Twitter's Bootstrap CSS blueprint as a jQuery UI theme. Even if you don't want to use Bootstrap as...

Let's say you have commits that change a file (and looking at the commit details show you the changes...

Removing features and merging those changes back can be painful. Here is how it worked for me.\

I have no idea how it's supposed to work (or why the don't have a print CSS), but...

Our gitpt script to generate git commits from Pivotal Tracker stories has been tweaked and polished and is now part...