I love ETags, but there’s something that annoys me: most implementations revolve around pulling a record out of a...
Are you adding a "Then show me the page" and re-run Cucumber whenever there is a failing scenario? Don...
Find-as-you-type boxes are usually built by observing changes in a text field, and querying the server via...
From time to time we're convinced that an error must be very close to the network card, OS IP...
It's that simple to allow one of your Linux users to run a single command as UID 0:
This is for those who already own an SSL certificate (e.g. using it in the Apache HTTP Server) and need...
You cannot use Array#join on an array of strings where some strings are html_safe and others are not...
Call geordi clean from a project root to remove unused and unnecessary files inside it. This script is part of...
Update: This trick probably isn't very useful anymore in Ruby 2.x. The Ruby GC has improved a lot...
In January this year (2010), Gmail switched to using HTTPS for everything by default. Previously it had been introduced as...
If you’re testing the behavior of deprecated code in your Ruby project, the warning messages littered throughout your spec...
Git allows you to do a binary search across commits to hunt down the commit that introduced a bug.
If you want to iterate over a Range, but only look at every n-th element, use the step method...
When your site is mapped into the URL-space of another server using mod_proxy, ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse, all requests...
These steps are now part of Spreewald. The step definitions below allow you to test the filename suggested by the...
The step definitions below allow you to write this in both Webrat and Capybara: When I follow "Download as PDF...
Our collection of the most useful Cucumber steps, Spreewald, now supports exact matching of form fields and lets you use...
If you need to find out which of your local commits are not on the remote server do this:
I was recently confronted with the task of creating a two-column liquid layout with a header and footer in...
The ‘merge.*.driver` variable’s value is used to construct a command to run to merge ancestor’s version, current...
This must be one of the coolest, yet quite unknown, technique in Ruby. For certain types of problems (e.g. when...
In regular expressions you can use the zero-width pattern \b to match the beginning or end of a word...
When you need to see the content of a page (i.e. not all the HTML but the relevant text body...
Every time you amend, rebase or reset, git commits get "overwritten". However, git still allows you to checkout those commits...