To show the collation of your tables you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW TABLE STATUS...
Using the jQuery adapter breaks the built-in save function of CKEditor. Phenomenon: The page is submitted correctly, but the...
In order to monitor a Rake task using God your Rake file must write a file with its process ID...
Oniguruma is an advanced regular expression engine for Ruby. Install Oniguruma with binary dependencies like this: sudo apt-get install...
The technique described in this card has an important caveat: The result of GROUP_CONCAT is truncated to the maximum...
There is a new card about how to do this with the new AWS Command Line Interface
If Rails or Rake are complaining about a missing gem that is listed in your Gemfile.lock and the listed version...
When installing your first formula, Homebrew may complain about not being able to access certain directories. The easiest solution to...
The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...
Observed on Rails 2.3 and machinist 1.0.6 Like the title says, when you define the method empty? like in the...
When you don't know which options are available, but need to have an option selected, use this step.
Let's say you have an Explorer window showing a directory and want a cmd terminal to be opened there...
Use the PDF toolkit: sudo apt-get install pdftk To rotate page 1 by 90 degrees clockwise: pdftk in.pdf cat...
Linux provides a fix number of filesystem watches. If you have some greedy daemon (like dropbox) running, chances are it...
Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a...
Pdfposter is a Python script that allows to convert large PDFs into a PDF with multiple pages that can be...
If you use Amazon AWS cloud services you definitively want to utilize software raid for IO intensive stuff such as...
To avoid sending e-mails containing sensitive data unencrypted I strongly suggest you enable a confirmation dialog. Enigmail can show...
The Capybara API is somewhat hard for parse for a list of methods you can call on a Capybara node...
tl;dr: Always have your attachment path start with :rails_root/storage/#{Rails.env}#{ENV['RAILS_TEST_NUMBER']}/. The directory where you...
When you need to zip up files in Ruby, use zipruby. sudo gem install zipruby You can add existing files...
The addon lets you set the format of the dates used for the year and month folders that the Archive...
This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi. Inspired by the...