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I am using git at several places: at work, at university, and at home. I want an own git user/email...
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Awesome Sass plugin to experiment with Subtle Patterns based textures. It automatically removes the base color from the pattern, leaving...
Weighttp is threaded and might exhaust resources of an application better than ApacheBench or httperf. You need libev installed.
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Whenever you create a table from a database migration, remember to add updated_at and created_at timestamps to that...
A snippet of the carrierwave documentation You might come to a situation where you want to retroactively change a version...
Today I ran into trouble installing therubyracer on Ruby 1.8. The installation failed with *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile...
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We proudly release our safe_cookies middleware into public beta and just published it on Github. Features are:
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One of many useful techniques when your test suite needs to talk to a remote API.
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