Web fonts are awesome. After being restricted to Arial for two decades there is finally a cross-browser way to...
You must reconfigure the guest so it will get its own IP address: Shutdown the guest In the guest's...
If you specify different ports, you can run multiple local webricks with rails server --port=300X at the same time...
When you require the Ruby debugger to be available from your Rails console (e.g. you want to inspect a method...
If Rails or Rake are complaining about a missing gem that is listed in your Gemfile.lock and the listed version...
Sometimes you may need to figure out what branches exist on a remote repository so you can pull them down...
There are many blog posts on encrypting backups, but none works for local drives. #How to Encrypt the external backup...
Remember how Rails 2 came with an awesome feature that broke all code using Time.now or Time.parse? This behavior is...
If you have a time given in a different time zone than your local one, parsing will convert it for...
When you need to create a locale for a language variant (like Austrian for German), you probably don't want...
After managing a few agile projects from India and learning the tricks of the trade, I have been wondering why...
To test if you can connect to a host using password authentication and explicitly deny public key authentication:
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German...
If you need Google Chrome to run in English, and your system locale is a non-English one, you have...
If you have to build a filename (e.g. for use in downloads) that contains user input, keep in mind that...
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
Recent versions of the Faker gem retrieve their strings from your locale file (e.g. config/locale/de.yml). This leads to awesome errors...
To set the hostname of your Mac, run the following command in Terminal: sudo scutil --set HostName my-new-hostname.local
You can seriously speed up deployments with Capistrano when using a local git repository on the server you are deploying...
Partials always define a local variable with the same name as themselves. E.g. when you are in _recent_users.html.erb, a local...
Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...
When you use the send_file method to send a local file to the browser, you can save resources on...