richfrog.curzons.net

Get "PuTTY Link" and "Pageant" (an SSH key agent) from the PuTTY download page. Run pageant.exe, find its icon inside...

When rendering a number, you want to pretty up the string coming from #to_s: Render 0.0 as 0

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

I encountered a bug in RSpec 1.x where stubbed class methods ("static methods") would not be unstubbed before the...

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...

When using the resource_controller gem you often hook onto events like this: update.before do do_something end

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

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...

blog.jayfields.com

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

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

Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...

makandra dev
github.com

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...

This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...

These steps are now part of Spreewald. Here are some useful examples how to use the attached Cucumber Timecop steps...

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

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...

Run rspec-and-cucumber from any project directory to run both RSpec and Cucumber. If available, rspec_spinner or cucumber...

makandra dev
ndpsoftware.com

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

github.com

Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.