To retain all branches you can try the svn2git tool. However, this tool has some bugs. To only import the...
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...
When a paperclip attachment gains a new style and you have many attachments, reprocessing can take ages. This is because...
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...
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...
To parse XML-documents, I recommend the gem nokogiri. A few hints: xml = Nokogiri::XML(" foo bar ") parses an xml...
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
If your shell seems frozen You probably pressed Ctrl-S which stops the buffer. Try Ctrl-Q to resume.
This is about converting Haml to ERB and not the other way round which you probably want! This process can...
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
sudo gem install zip git clone git://github.com/rtomayko/date-performance.git cd date-performance rake package:build cd dist sudo gem install...
Solr listens to different ports for different environments. Start Solr (and hide useless output) rake solr:start PORT=8981 &>/dev/null...
script/cucumber features/feature_name.feature Or, if you don't care about speed, you can use rake: rake features FEATURE=features/feature_name.feature
To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...
To call a class method (or static method) from an instance method: class.method() To call a class method from a...