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Geordi is now (partially) tested with Cucumber. Yay! geordi cucumber supports a new @solo tag. Scenarios tagged with @solo...

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Using Scenic, you can bring the power of SQL views to your Rails application without having to switch your schema...

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Note The maintenance mode is enabled on all application server as soon as the file /public/system/maintenance.html is present. Installation

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Ever wondered how you can create a simple table output in bash? You can use the tool column for creating...

techblog.netflix.com

You login to a Linux server with a performance issue: what do you check in the first minute? uptime

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Wondering which processes are placed in your swap you can use this bash oneliner: for file in /proc/*/status ; do...

Once Rails knows a given string is html_safe, it will never escape it. However, there may be times when...

litmus.com

You know that layouting HTML e-mails is terrible. For more fun, check Litmus' list of top 10 e-mail...

postgresql.org

PostgreSQL offers a really handy field type: json. You can store any JSON there, in any structure. While its flexibility...

nateberkopec.com

rack-mini-profiler is a powerful Swiss army knife for Rack app performance. Measure SQL queries, memory allocation and CPU...

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To delete a certificate request run sudo puppet ca destroy $your.full.hostname on your puppetmaster.

There are cases when you need to select DOM elements without jQuery, such as: when jQuery is not available

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In developing countries like Nigeria, Opera Mini is used by up to 70% of users on mobile.

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Remove some old binaries (commands still exist in geordi) and mark others as deprecated Rewrite deploy command to support...

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When you're using feature branches, they will stack up if you don't delete them after the merge to...

Until recently, you could open a new tab via window.open when using execute_script in Selenium tests. It no longer...

The nokogiri gem provides different packages for several platforms. Each platform-specific variant ships pre-built binaries of libxml2, e.g...

E-mails are usually encoded using Quoted Printable. Here is how to decode or encode such strings. You probably know...

Regular expressions in Javascript are represented by a RegExp object. There also is a regex literal as in many other...

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You know that Devise offers RSpec test helpers for controller specs. However, in request specs, they will not work.

I recommend to go straight to 2.1.5+ without intermediate steps. Otherwhise you burden yourself with unnecessary work of encoding problems...

Spreewald 1.3.0 comes with these steps: Then I should see an element ".panel" Then I should not see an element...

Ruby has the class Proc which encapsulates a "block of code". There are 2 "flavors" of Procs: Those with "block...

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This class contains nerdcore things such as disassembling a piece of Ruby into VM calls or enabling tail-call optimization...