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

Sass comes with many built-in functions to manipulate color. Some of the more interesting functions include: adjust-hue($color...

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Most web applications contain several examples of state machines, including accounts and subscriptions, invoices, orders, blog posts, and many more...

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Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one...

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You can unpack a .tar.gz file into the current directory like this: tar -xzvf archive.tar.gz The options used are

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

I pushed a new version of the Cucumber Factory gem. This new release lets you refer to a previously created...

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Choosing the right product to develop is crucial. Great execution is also very important. But if you develop a product...

geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...

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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...

You know there is the du command to fetch the disk usage of a directory (“.” in this example). By default...

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

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If you would like to enrich your website with semantic markup like contact data, places or events you should have...

Note: In Rails 3+ you can use Array.wrap instead of the solution here. In the past you could use Array...

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XPath matchers can be combined with CSS-selector matchers. This is really useful if not, for example, the content of...

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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...

Put the attached file into config/initializers/ to be able to say created_within on any ActiveRecord or its scope chain...

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When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...

When you do a git add . and have deleted files, git won’t stage them to be commited (as deleted...

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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.