github.com

Internet Explorer until version 9 has some limitations when parsing CSS files Summarized, these are: Up to 31 CSS files...

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robots.thoughtbot.com

I recently worked on a project with 60+ old feature branches. Most of them had been merged into master and...

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sourceforge.net

ReText is a cross-platform WYSIWYG-ish Markdown editor. Toggle editor and preview layout with Ctrl+E.\

In a nutshell: Use git rebase --onto target-branch source-commit target-branch means "branch you want to be based...

Sometimes, you may want to open up a second database connection, to a read slave or another database. When doing...

When deploying, Capistrano puts a REVISION file into your application's release directory. It contains the hash of the commit...

Makandra cards will auto-detect the language used for syntax highlighting. This auto-detection sometimes fails for short code snippets...

blog.avisi.nl

On case-insensitive file systems like Mac's HFS+ (per default – you may change this, but it won't work...

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Last week saw a security issue with rails 2.3 that required a fix. While an official patch was provided, the...

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blogs.skype.com

Promises unified window for all chat conversations, better call quality. Upgrade seems to work fine. If you installed your old...

This script loads a dump into your development database. You can provide the full path to you database dump like...

eagain.net

Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph. The linked page...

Probably was in the repository once and got deleted in a commit that you pulled.

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github.com

Geoffrey Grosenbach has created Gruff for easily plotting graphs. It is written in pure Ruby and integrates with Rails applications...

ruby-toolbox.com

If you need a gem for a certain purpose, be sure to check this site. The rankings are determined by...

In order to navigate through the browser history. you can manipulate the window.history object via javascript like follows:

I got these warnings while deploying a Rails 3.2 app with asset pipeline enabled: *** [err :: host.tld] find: `/opt/www/hollyapp.com/releases/20120503115342/public/images': No such...

In your ~/.gitconfig: [core] editor=nano

You can change which branches will be pushed when saying git push. Our recommendation is to set it to current...

Geordi, our collection of command line tools, has been extended by another command deploy-to-production. This script encapsulates the...

When you create a new branch and push it to origin, you won't be tracking it. This means a...

The following two hints are taken from Github's Ruby style guide: If your regular expression mentions a lot of...

stackoverflow.com

In some older Capybara versions (e.g. 0.3.9), we're getting lots of deprecations warnings: Selenium::WebDriver::Element#select is deprecated...

github.com

Pour color on your Rails console with awesome_print. Turn confusing long strings into formatted output. Have objects and classes...