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

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If you need to debug Analytics tracking, consider using this chrome extension. It will replace the tracking code with a...

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...

REST Client is a nice, simple HTTP client library for Ruby. When you do a simple GET request like that...

The attached patch lets you find a record by a string or number in any column: User.find_by_anything('carla...

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

Imagine you have a piece of code that tries to send a request to a remote server. Now the server...

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

Sometimes you want one distinct version of RubyGems to be installed to replicate the same behavior across multiple servers.

Although it's tempting flirt with detecting mobile/touch devices with CSS media queries or Javascript feature detection alone, this approach...

Basically, you now need to know if your project uses a "real" time zone or :local, and if config.active_record.time_zone...

After my update from MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard to 10.7 Lion the search function in Apple Mail stopped working...

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When Rack::Bug has been added to your project and your Apache2/Passenger only replies with an Error 500 (Internal Server...

To reduce download time, application servers usually serve content using gzip compression, if the browser supports it.

When you have a complex recipe setup with multistage deployment you may run into this error: `role_list_from': unknown...

If you turn on stylesheet caching, it might happen that stylesheets from different locations with different relative pathes will be...

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Git has a built-in repository viewer for your web browser. a bit similar (but less awesome) than github.

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You have to specify the environment with -e env_name or RAILS_ENV=env_name if you want to run...

You can group contacts using a mailing list in Thunderbird for easier access and less trouble when trying to find...

After starting the Rails server in a freshly generated Rails 3.1 project you could see an error message such as...

When using the screen tool you may be unable to start a screen session but instead encounter an error:

To show the MySQL default character set you have to login to the MySQL console and execute SHOW VARIABLES LIKE...

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You can convert git commits into patch files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or...