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Sometimes you need to look at the filter chain in specs. You can do it like that on Rails 2...
The attached initializer gives your hashes a #deep_slice method that lets you recursively slice their contents by a given...
Our rspec_candy gem now gives you three matchers: be_same_number_as Tests if the given number is the...
Embedding bitmap images within PDF sometimes results in large files because the bitmaps are not compressed. If you don't...
If you get an error like this ... can’t find executable rails for rails-3.2.3 (Gem::Exception) ... one of several...
This card needs to be updated for Rails 3+. Since there is no --debugger flag you need to run:
When using state_machine you sometimes need to know whether an object may execute a certain transition. Let's take...
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If you get an error "Adress already in use" with autossh check with lsof or netstat if something already listen...
Grep prints one line per match. To return the number if matches, use the -c switch: grep -c "something" filename...
Date::Performance is a gem that replaces various method in Ruby's Date class with fast C implementations. Unfortunately it...
Attached is a working config to deploy an application with Capistrano that needs to monitor Resque workers with God.
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German...
You can unpack a .tar.gz file into the current directory like this: tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz The options used are
If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...
Install Ubuntu Server Download an image from this site Select File > New… to and follow the instructions, choose the .iso...
Pressing the ? key will display a list of keyboard shortcuts. Available shortcuts are: |search |/| |help|?| |add story|a| |toggle backlog...
On 32bit systems, the maximum representable Time is 2038-01-19 03:14:07 in UTC or 2038-01-19...
When you are using Apache for development, it still accepts connections from everyone in the same network as you.
RSpec 1, RSpec 2 To test whether two arrays have the same elements regardless of order, RSpec 1 and 2...