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...
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...
Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...
To run a single test file: rake test:units TEST=test/unit/post_test.rb rake test:functionals TEST=test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb rake test:integration TEST...
If you would like to checkout the branch groups, you can simply say this in recent versions of Git:
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]
This is for people recovering from Subversion. Get an existing from the server for the first time git clone git@example.com...
In Ubuntu your ALT key is locked when you're working in VirtualBox. There are two workarounds for this:
You are getting when connecting via SSH or deploying with Capistrano (which uses SSH): Too many authentication failures for username...
Gem to provide nice looking urls ("/blog/the-greatest-bug-i-never-fixed"). If you don't need anything too special (like i18n for the urls...