A possible way for localisation in Rails applications that allows editing translations remotely.
After my update from MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion the search function in Apple Mail stopped working...
When internationalizing your Rails app, you'll be replacing strings like 'Please enter your name' with t('.name_prompt'). You...
If you turn on stylesheet caching, it might happen that stylesheets from different locations with different relative pathes will be...
How to ignore new files Globally Add the path(s) to your file(s) which you would like to ignore...
If you would like to use language specific layout (e.g. background-images) in your applications stylesheets you can achieve this...
If you embedded web fonts in the past years (e.g. by copying CSS from a Font Squirrel @font-face kit...
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...