This is now part of geordi. Please don't follow the instructions below, if you use geordi. Inspired by the...
Note: While the solution in this card should still work, we prefer another solution now: Hide your Selenium browser window...
Note: If you are currently working with Ruby 1.8.7 or 1.9.3, we recommend to upgrade to Ruby 2.1 first. From...
File.chmod(0604, '/path/to/file') # rw----r-- The leading zero is meaningful.
If you use Selenium and Launchy to open web pages, you might run into an error saying "Your Firefox profile...
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like [#15775609] Index view for conflicts
API breakage ahoy. You need to either upgrade your Capybara or downgrade your selenium-webdriver gem. Alternatively, this could solve...
Sometimes you need a file of some size (possibly for testing purposes). On Linux, you can use dd to create...
We are changing our name from Hoptoad to Airbrake. You see, some folks much larger than us reached out and...
With gem dependency it is possible to check the dependencies for your gem before you install it.
Regular expressions can have something called "zero-width look-behind assertions". This means that you want a pattern to be...
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...
sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby
Ever wondered if there is a reverse for Rails' .each(&:to_s) idiom? Turns out there is... You probably already...
This is somewhat similar to the touch command of Linux: FileUtils.touch 'example.txt', :mtime => Time.now - 2.hours If you omit the :mtime...
If you encounter above mentioned failiure message after installing the ruby-debug gem then you have to explicitly require linecache...
Most web applications contain several examples of state machines, including accounts and subscriptions, invoices, orders, blog posts, and many more...
Yesterday, there was a blog post entitled “What the Hell is Happening to Rails” that stayed at the number one...
I pushed a new version of the Cucumber Factory gem. This new release lets you refer to a previously created...
geordi, our collection of awesome shell scripts, has been extended by three scripts to help you call RSpec or Cucumber...
When using the resource_controller gem you often hook onto events like this: update.before do do_something end
I found a nice script on crazylittlehacks and modified it slightly. Put the attachment to /usr/local/bin, chmod +x and run...
Copy the attached Ruby code to config/initializers, or paste it into your IRB console. You can now dump any two...