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I pushed a new version of the Cucumber Factory gem. This new release lets you refer to a previously created...
When you have a hook in your Capistrano file that dumps your remote database, you might not want it to...
When you edit text in Balsamiq Mockups, you can define inline styles like this: | Bold | Some *bold* text | | Italics | Some...
Ubuntu natty introduced new "invisible" scrollbars for GTK programs such as gEdit or Nautilus. If you do not like them...
When using gnome-open (i.e. double-clicking a file, telling to browser to open a download, etc.) on Ubuntu you...
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You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default...
When using the resource_controller gem you often hook onto events like this: update.before do do_something end
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This snippet makes links that refer to an anchor (like "...
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Note: In Rails 3+ you can use Array.wrap instead of the solution here. In the past you could use Array...
I found a nice script on crazylittlehacks and modified it slightly. Put the attachment to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x and run...
XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of...
If you want to enforce soft tabs (spaces instead of tabstops) in Vim put this into your ~/.vimrc (Linux) or...
Copy the attached Ruby code to config/initializers, or paste it into your IRB console. You can now dump any two...
Update: Staticmatic will not be further developed. They suggest to switch to middleman. If you need to make a static...
When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...
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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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After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...