We are consistently having trouble with selenium-webdriver > 2.5.0 where whenever we try to select an option from a Capybara...
When you run rake db:create and get this error message Couldn't create database for {"encoding"=>"utf8", "username"=>"root...
Most likely you run rake and your code is causing an exception which is not the one shown in your...
whatsmydns.net is an online service that allows you to instantly perform a DNS lookup to check a hostnames current IP...
When your Solr seems to be started properly (a process is running with the correct data directory) but never responds...
When you put a Rake task into lib/tasks, but running it fails with... Don't know how to build task...
cURL makes a web request and shows you the response body. You can redirect the response body to /dev/null just...
Consider you have a website vhost listening to www.example.com, redirecting all incoming requests that do not talk about the configured...
ExecJS lets you run JavaScript code from Ruby. It automatically picks the best runtime available to evaluate your JavaScript program...
We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...
Here is a way to create a duplicate of one database, with all its tables and their data, under a...
Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.
If your application raises an error like ... Couldn't connect to the Solr server at http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr. 500 "Lock...
You can use fold: fold -sw 60 You can now paste your texts. fold will echo them back, word-wrapped...
In order to open a Nautilus window in your terminal's working directory, you can say: nautilus .
When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...
The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...
You can create a Regexp object from existing Regexp objects by using the interpolation syntax you know from strings:
There is a bug in Rails 3's dbconsole script, which makes the following command open a database console for...
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...
Simple: Tell the application controller how to handle exceptions, here a RecordNotFound error. Do this with the following line: # application_controller.rb...
Ever wondered how Rails talks to itself in a Cucumber feature? In Rails 3 you can do it like this...
If you have a time given in a different time zone than your local one, parsing will convert it for...