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

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

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

Install libreadline: sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev Reinstall the ruby and tell rvm where to find readline

If you want to know your public key's fingerprint, do this: ssh-keygen -lf ~/.ssh/my.key.pub This may be necessary...

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When trying to install the gherkin gem, you might encounter an error with the following lines: ERROR: Error installing gherkin...

When branches get deleted on origin, your local repository won't take notice of that. You'll still have your...

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This card shows you how to format a card's content using Markdown. We use the Commonmarker interpreter, so here...

Instead of showing you two lines for each change, Git allows you to highlight changes in a line explicitly:

When updating WebMock, be prepared that your specs may send real requests into the depths of the internet unless you...

If your project manager wants to do gatekeeping on a project, as a developer you need to follow the following...

If you're responsible for gatekeeping in a projects, here is a guide, what to do. In order to reduce...

We experienced problems with Sunspot and Solr on Tomcat: Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) were not correctly handled on Tomcat while...

You can now add code blocks without indentation, by using triple-backticks: ``` Code block goes here. ```

When deploying code with Capistrano (depending on your configuration) at some point Capistrano tries to check out code from your...

To access files from another branch or past commit without doing a complete checkout, you can either use

Sometimes it might be helpful to have a version history for a gem, e.g. when you want to see if...

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If your git index for some reason becomes invalid, no need to worry. Your index is corrupt when you see...

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Some helpers for poking around at your Capybara driven browser's cookies in integration tests. Supports Capybara's bundled drivers...

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ProgressBar is a simple Ruby library for displaying progress of long-running tasks on the console. It is intended to...

If you want to move a complete commit from one repository to another (and you don't want to add...

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Saying git diff only shows unstaged changes relative to the index (or HEAD if the index is empty, alternatively any...

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This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...

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Gem to get Rails 3's new ActiveRecord query interface (where, order) and the new scope syntax (chaining scope definitions...