Unless all MySQL server defaults are set to UTF-8, mysqldump encodes UTF-8 characters incorrectly and only outputs correct...
Create a branch: svn copy https://dev.makandra.de/svn/filepanic/trunk https://dev.makandra.de/svn/filepanic/branches/$ticketnumber_shortdesc Don't just copy the folder into your working...
Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some don't. The cleanest way to have consistent...
Notebook: 1280x800 (many consumer notebooks) Netbook: 1024x600 Desktop: 1440x900 / 1680x1050 (19"- und 22"-Widescreen-TFTs) iPad: 768x1024
Most of these will not work in newer projects because these use the Capybara/Rack::Test combo in lieu of Webrat...
Until May 2011 our gems have been created with Jeweler, which is a helper library to package code into a...
With defaults, RCov doesn't work the way you how you would like it to. To create a nice test...
We built cucumber_spinner to have a progress bar for Cucumber features, which also outputs failing scenarios as soon as...
To test concurrent code, you will need to run multiple threads. Unfortunately, when you use blocking system calls (e.g. locks...
rspec_spinner is a progress bar for RSpec which outputs failing examples as they happen (instead of all at the...
For arrays of objects, uniq does not work as expected, since it uses strict equality. So [[1], [1]].uniq() == [[1...
Install gem and plugin sudo gem install parallel script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git Adapt config/database.yml test: database: xxx_test<%= ENV...
sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...
See the lemonade descriptions. Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems: it does not work with Sass2...
install apache sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev sudo gem install passenger sudo passenger-install-apache2-module follow the instructions
.error, .information, .warning { font-weight: bold; } .notice { color: #11bb00; } .error { color: #F53A31; } .information { color: #557; } .warning { color: #d07d2d; }
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
Solr listens to different ports for different environments. Start Solr (and hide useless output) rake solr:start PORT=8981 &>/dev/null...
This can happen during development when classes without automatic reloading are pointing to classes with automatic reloading. E.g. some class...
This note shows how to merge an ugly feature branch with multiple dirty WIP commits back into the master as...
sudo gem install rails --version="=1.2.3" rails _1.2.3_ new-project-folder
sudo apt-get install unzip rake rails:freeze:edge RELEASE=2.2.2
Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]