When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
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...
Recent versions of the Faker gem retrieve their strings from your locale file (e.g. config/locale/de.yml). This leads to awesome errors...
apt-get install libcurl3-dev
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
This is an awful way to test whether a number is shown on the screen: Then I should see "5...
Today I needed to execute a ruby gem executable with sudo. But, surprisingly, bash would tell me command not found...
Before installing chef, make sure curl is installed and sudo finds your gems setup chef-client: follow this guide
We regularly need to connect to the server in order to e.g. access the production console. Guessing the Capistrano deploy...
When you simply want to get to know Puppet, follow puppetlabs’ Learning Puppet Docs. They give you a handy introduction...
We recently decided to put static content for HouseTrip.com to Amazon Cloudfront for a faster user experience. This happens fully...
Run rspec-and-cucumber from any project directory to run both RSpec and Cucumber. If available, rspec_spinner or cucumber...
Whenever is a Ruby gem that provides a clear syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs.
Sass now comes with user-defined functions, keyword arguments, list manipulation. Haml and Sass are now two separate gems.
The Edge Rider gem will define a method collect_ids on your ActiveRecord models, scopes, integer scalars and collections, which...
Our new scope-based authorization gem for Ruby on Rails has been released. This might one day replace Aegis as...
If you want to convert a README.rdoc file to HTML, say this from a shell: rdoc README.rdoc
Ruby gem to check whether a given bic/account-no-combination can possibly be valid for a German bank. Can also resolve German...
Reading a URL via GET: curl http://example.com/ Defining any HTTP method (like POST or PUT): curl http://example.com/users/1...
User.active.to_sql Rails 2 Use either the Edge Rider or fake_arel gem to get #to_sql backported...
Since version 1.5 RubyGems requires at least Ruby 1.8.7. The last one working with Ruby 1.8.6 was RubyGems 1.4.2.
When installing RMagick you may get an error messages like this: Version 2.13.1: checking for Ruby version >= 1.8.5... yes
Phillip Koebbe from Ruby on Rails suggested inserting following code between the "bootstrap" and "initialize" sections of enviroment.rb. This hack...