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...
This might be due to AppArmor denying the MySQL server access to most of the filesystem. You can instead use...
From time to time we're convinced that an error must be very close to the network card, OS IP...
When you are using Apache for development, it still accepts connections from everyone in the same network as you.
If you need to find out which of your local commits are not on the remote server do this:
Sometimes, you just need to shoot from the hip…or deploy your local changes without committing them. Put this snippet...
As a user of Bundler you have spent significant time looking at this message: Fetching source index for http://rubygems.org...
Inside before :each blocks you can refer to variables that you introduce via let later on. They do not need...
Call with the server's hostname (and user if you have no SSH agent), e.g. install-gems-remotely my.server.com
This is an awesome gadget in your toolbox, even if your test coverage is great. gem install ruby-debug (Ruby...
If you added a file by mistake, you can unstage it (but keep local changes) by saying git reset HEAD...
Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.
When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...
To delete a local branch git branch -d the_local_branch To remove a remote branch (if you know what...
This will tunnel HTTP requests to one given domain and port through an intermediary SSH server: ssh -L 8080:targethost...
Ubuntu lets you mount an SSH shell into Nautilus from Places -> Connect to server (select "SSH" as server type).
This may be awkward to set up, but will work once you're done. Fun facts:
sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...