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...

devblog.imedo.de

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...

yehudakatz.com

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...

blog.jayfields.com

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.

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One of the more controversial changes in the Ubuntu 10.04 beta is the Mac OS-inspired change to have window...

If you copy the data files of a VirtualBox machine to another PC without exporting it as an .ova appliance...

Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...

If you manipulate the DOM with JavaScript and your page contains nested elements with position: relative, chances are Internet Explorer...

Recent versions of the Faker gem retrieve their strings from your locale file (e.g. config/locale/de.yml). This leads to awesome errors...

This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...

Capybara allows you to select DOM elements, e.g. by using field, find_field(...) or field_labeled(...): role_select = field_labeled...

These steps are now part of Spreewald. Here are some useful examples how to use the attached Cucumber Timecop steps...