I got this error when running Rails 2.3 tests for Rails LTS. More stacktrace: NoMethodError: undefined method `cache' for Gem...

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Geordi is now (partially) tested with Cucumber. Yay! geordi cucumber supports a new @solo tag. Scenarios tagged with @solo...

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Using Scenic, you can bring the power of SQL views to your Rails application without having to switch your schema...

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Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation

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Ever wondered how you can create a simple table output in bash? You can use the tool column for creating...

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cyberciti.biz

Wondering which processes are placed in your swap you can use this bash oneliner: for file in /proc/*/status ; do...

SELECT pg_database.datname as "database_name", pg_database_size(pg_database.datname)/1024/1024 AS size_in_mb FROM pg_database ORDER...

Once Rails knows a given string is html_safe, it will never escape it. However, there may be times when...

litmus.com

You know that layouting HTML e-mails is terrible. For more fun, check Litmus' list of top 10 e-mail...

You can tell git to ignore different kinds and amounts of whitespace when merging or cherry-picking. This often occurs...

nateberkopec.com

rack-mini-profiler is a powerful Swiss army knife for Rack app performance. Measure SQL queries, memory allocation and CPU...

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github.com

A list of surprisingly clever CSS expressions for common use cases.

There are cases when you need to select DOM elements without jQuery, such as: when jQuery is not available

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wtfoperamini.com

In developing countries like Nigeria, Opera Mini is used by up to 70% of users on mobile.

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github.com

Remove some old binaries (commands still exist in geordi) and mark others as deprecated Rewrite deploy command to support...

In Ruby 2.3 you can use <<~ instead of <<- to automatically remove indentation from a HEREDOCs: str = <<~MESSAGE Hello Universe!

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When you're using feature branches, they will stack up if you don't delete them after the merge to...

The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...

unix.stackexchange.com

As described by the linked Stackoverflow answer, run these commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa -y

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A collection of 700+ svg vector logos. The logos are optimized (removed duplicated paths / excessive groups / empty defs, linting, etc...

Regular expressions in Javascript are represented by a RegExp object. There also is a regex literal as in many other...

I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...

Cucumber raises a Cucumber::Ambiguous if more than one step definitions match a step. Our new cucumber_priority gem provides...

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serverfault.com

Logging tcpdump output all the time can create a huge amount of data. This can be both: too much data...