Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec...

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In order to request a SSL certificate from any dealer, you usually need a CSR certificate. As both the CSR...

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I found a nice script on crazylittlehacks and modified it slightly. Put the attachment to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x and run...

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If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...

Update: Staticmatic will not be further developed. They suggest to switch to middleman. If you need to make a static...

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Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...

You probably already manage servers you often connect to inside the ~/.ssh/config file. What is nice: you may define alias...

When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.

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One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...

Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...

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Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide

If you need to strip carriage return characters from a text file, you can use Vim: vim file.txt

We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...

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When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...

Although regular expression syntax is 99% interchangeable between languages, keep this in mind: By default, the dot character (".") does not...

We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...

Install Ubuntu Server Download an image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...

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To set the hostname of your Mac, run the following command in Terminal: sudo scutil --set HostName my-new-hostname.local

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Make sure you understand differences between git's areas (such as stash, workspace, upstream, etc.) and what commands affect which...

Occasionally you need to do something directly on the server -- like having all records recalculate something that cannot be done...

You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...

When deploying an application with "cap deploy" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations...