Sometimes you may need to figure out what branches exist on a remote repository so you can pull them down...
ExecJS lets you run JavaScript code from Ruby. It automatically picks the best runtime available to evaluate your JavaScript program...
We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...
Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...
Grit gives you object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby.
After updating Rubygems you see a wall of deprecation warnings like this: NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use...
When browsing a repository, pressing "t" allows you to quickly search for file names. Very awesome! Go here to try...
If you want to use the (badly implemented!) solarized color scheme in your Rubymine IDE: Clone the IntelliJ IDEA port...
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like [#15775609] Index view for conflicts
Some folks have started to keep their linux configuration in a git repository called "dotfiles". This sounds like a good...
Note: Consider using MATE instead of Gnome 3 on newer system Awesome is a very good tiling window manager that...
Install Ruby from the Ubuntu repository: sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev \ ruby is the meta package. If you...
We're adding a script console-for to open a remote Rails console with one command. Also have a look...
Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String
My RubyMine (and it seems like many other Java GUI applications) crashes the Compiz window decorator almost every time on...
Get "PuTTY Link" and "Pageant" (an SSH key agent) from the PuTTY download page. Run pageant.exe, find its icon inside...
Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec...
When you do a git add . and have deleted files, git won’t stage them to be commited (as deleted...
Deprecated ways to execute shell code in Ruby This is just a reference for legacy code. For new code, always...
Soon after having written our shell-for script, we wanted to easily get dumps of our productions machines, too. This...
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...