The addon lets you set the format of the dates used for the year and month folders that the Archive...
This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi. Inspired by the...
When you have a program running in a hidden X screen (like with Xvfb for Selenium tests) you may want...
The Javascript code below is a rough equivalent to the simple_format helper that ships with Rails: function simpleFormat(str...
If you're writing a spec for an application using Resque, you may need to work off queues manually without...
Resque comes with its own dashboard (Resque server) that you can mount inside your Rails 3 application with #config/routes.rb:
Note: While the solution in this card should still work, we prefer another solution now: Hide your Selenium browser window...
Note: If you are currently working with Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.3, we recommend to upgrade to Ruby 2.1 first. From...
This note describes how to kick a user out of a Rails application after she hasn't requested an action...
When you create a temporary file (e.g. to store a generated Excel sheet) and try to send it to the...
Ubuntu comes with keyboard layouts like "Germany Eliminate Dead Keys", which are practical for programming. If you need to type...
If you use Selenium and Launchy to open web pages, you might run into an error saying "Your Firefox profile...
Free Hoptoad/Airbrake alternative which can capture exceptions from any platform. It comes with a Rails notifier and a RESTful API...
Note that this card is very old. You might want to use ActiveType for your auto-coerced virtual attributes instead...
When have you last used your caps lock key? On purpose? Right... In Gnome Make it an additional ESC key...
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like [#15775609] Index view for conflicts
Just in case you did not know it: If you sent a Skype message containing a typo, you don't...
Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create...
Some folks have started to keep their linux configuration in a git repository called "dotfiles". This sounds like a good...
Note: Consider using MATE instead of Gnome 3 on newer system Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that...
VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
When you do a bitwise copy using the dd tool you will not see any output until it completes or...
Every time you open a directory containing images, Windows creates those pesky Thumbs.db files for a minor speed-up and...
Regular expressions can have something called "zero-width look-behind assertions". This means that you want a pattern to be...