You probably know about the possibility to tag scenarios in Cucumber to run your own piece of code before the...

In MySQL comparing zero to a string 0 = "any string" is always true! So when you want to compare a...

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Preview email in the browser instead of sending it.

Don't you just hate to write Cucumber path helpers to be able to say this?

The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column: User.find_by_anything('carla...

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

In order to save the original value of a constant, set the new value and restore the old value after...

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Copy the attached file to config/initializers/indent_string.rb and you can say "foo".indent(4) # " foo" Note you will find many simpler...

Imagine you have a piece of code that tries to send a request to a remote server. Now the server...

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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The article gives a very short tutorial how to customize tabs and fields of CKEditor's dialogs.

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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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As Justin Carmony points out, Mac OS Lion changed its behavior towards DNS and the usage of /etc/hosts (it quite...

You can use text-overflow to truncate a text using CSS but it does not fit fancy requirements.

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

The step definition below lets you say: Then I should see a field "Password" But I should not see a...

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

Most of the JavaScript snippets have code that manipulates the DOM. For that reason dom manipulating javascript code should have...

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

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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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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.

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