This card is just about creating simple PostgreSQL dumps. This is no instruction for a backup strategy nor a guide...
on the bash (issued as postgres user) Start/Stop/Restart PostgreSQL pg_ctl -D $configdir start|stop|restart Start/Stop/Restart the corresponding PostgreSQL...
Crontabs are often unordered, especially when generated for an application where you usually group tasks by their domain/scope.
This is not an issue in newer versions of HAML (starting with 5.0.0), as the ugly-option was removed...
There are various ways to run external commands from within Ruby, but the most powerful ones are Open3.capture3 and Open3.popen3...
Occasionally, you have to talk to APIs via HTTPS that use a custom certificate or a misconfigured certificate chain (like...
run-one is a wrapper script that won't run the given command while another instance of it is running...
Using VCR to record communication with remote APIs is a great way to stub requests in tests. However, you may...
Using the dialog command you can launch ASCII-art dialogs from your shell scripts. Check out man dialog for a...
Add the following to /etc/rc.local: (sleep 3 && echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth)& Bluetooth icon will be active for a few seconds, then...
The pages listed here contain tests and experiments about features, possibilities, browsers’ bugs concerning CSS. That is, over 200 experiments...
Line-height and vertical-align are simple CSS properties. So simple that most of us are convinced to fully understand...
Sometimes your code has long lines: describe 'foo' do describe 'bar' do really_long_line_really_long_line_really_long...
window.getSelection().toString(); Browser support: IE9+, Android 4.3+, Safari 5+
A collection of code snippets which return a boolean value for a regex comparison. regexp.match?(string) # Recommended for Ruby >= 2.4...
There seems to be a nasty bug in Chrome 56 when testing with Selenium and Capybara: Slashes are not written...
To create a 10 GB file: fallocate -l 10G huge_file.dat
Adding a gem means you take over the liability towards the external code. Checklist Based on "To gem, or not...
Web technology is a broad field and you cannot be an expert in all aspects. However, it is useful to...
Just like we use gems on the server, we use third party JavaScript libraries in the browser. These typically provide...
Advanced cucumber features Learn about the following cucumber features: Doc Strings ("multiline strings") Tables Tags Before/after hooks Background Scenario outlines...
We have projects that have been developed using many different versions of Ruby. Since we do not want to...
If you have a replication error with MySQL and you know the "error" is okay (e.g. you've executed the...
On application servers, gems are usually bundled into the project directory, at a location shared across deployments. This is usually...