String#indent is not a standard Ruby method. When you use it, be sure to know where this method comes from. Many Gems shamelessly define this method for internal usage...

...and you'll never know when it may be removed (since it's usually not part of the Gem's API). Unless you're using Rails 4 (which brings String...

...both column name and value are coming from user input and need to be sanitized. Unfortunately this works in SQLite but does not in MySQL: named_scope :filter, lambda { |attribute...

{ :conditions => [ 'articles.? = ?', attribute, value ] } } The solution is to use sanitize_sql_array like this: named_scope :filter, lambda { |attribute, value| { :conditions => sanitize_sql_array([ "`articles`.`%s` = '%s'", attribute, value...

...it's likely that your cucumber.yml is just fine but not your rerun.txt.\ This sometimes happens when running multiple Cucumber workers with parallel_tests that write into rerun.txt simultaneously -- ending...

...Just remove it and you are good to go again: rm rerun.txt Another possible solution is to have one rerun file per worker for which you'd need to modify...

There's a simple way in bolt to run commands from a file without caring about BASH escaping: # /home/user/foo.sh echo "$(hostname -f): $(uptime)" echo "${USER}" echo "${SERVERLIST}" | bolt command run...

...foo.sh --run-as root --targets - Use script run to run a ruby script: #!/usr/bin/env ruby # /home/user/bar.rb puts 'Hello, world!' echo "${SERVERLIST}" | bolt script run ./bar.rb --targets...

Back in the old days, we couldn't do something like that: .foo { position: absolute; bottom: 0; /* This was bad: */ left: 10px; right: 10px; } Why? Because IE5 and IE6 (which...

...then) failed horribly trying to render it. I've now checked if this is still an issue with any browser that's not from the stone age. \

...because a printer's resolution is usually much higher than that of a computer screen. If an image absolutely must look awesome when printed, a solution is to embed the...

...image in much higher solution than needed (e.g. four times the horizontal resolution), then scale it down to the desired width using CSS. Note that this will slightly alter the...

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Restricting access to cookies is essential for security in many web apps. For example, the session ID, the secret token used to identify a particular session, is typically stored in...

...a cookie. Cookies have several important settings. Previously, I discussed the secure flag. This time, let’s dive into the cookie domain. The cookie domain is an important security feature...

...variations' was not found; perhaps you misspelled it? I just was hunting down a strange error with this model: class Model placeholder = 'variations' has_many placeholder nested_scope :verbose, :include...

...work (the latter returned [ :some_association, 'variations' ]). Eventually, the quotes led me to the solution: I had to write has_many placeholder.to_sym. When Rails can't find an association...

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...hard to achieve), because it is no actual "integration testing". If you use this step, know what you are doing. Destroying a record with Capybara is not as easy as...

...user, method: :delete), because RackTest's visit can only perform GET requests. With this step you can destroy a records using either Selenium or RackTest. Example: When I destroy that...

Capybara will match elements outside of a page's tag. For example, the step definitions below match nodes in a page's : Then /^my browser should auto-discover the "([^"]*)" feed...

page.should have_css( 'head link' + '[rel="alternate"]' + "[href='http://www.example.com/#{slug}/feed.rss']" + '[title="RSS feed (all cards)"]' + '[type="application/rss+xml"]', visible: false ) end Then /^my browser should...

...default Ruby, RubyMine will give you incorrect inspections, for example.\ Here is how to switch which Ruby you use in RubyMine. File → Settings (Or press Ctrl+Alt+S)

...SDK and Gems" from the left pane Switch your "Ruby interpreter". Though it may seem you are changing a global setting here, this is in fact a per-project setting...

find . -cnewer other_file This can be used to check against a specific timestamp, too. This is how you check for all files modified today (since...

...the current bash's PID so you will get some file like /tmp/12345 that stays the same for the current shell. This allows you to check against this file again...

RSpec's let allows you to super into "outside" definitions, in parent contexts. Example: describe '#save' do subject { described_class.new(attributes) } let(:attributes) { title: 'Example', user: create(:user) } it 'saves' do...

...expect(subject.save).to eq(true) end context 'when trying to set a disallowed title' do let(:attributes) { super().merge(title: 'Hello') } # <== it 'will not save' do expect(subject.save).to eq...

To read the Rails session from a Rack middleware, use env['rack.session']. It's an ActionDispatch::Request::Session object. class MyMiddlware def initialize(app) @app = app end def call(env...

...status, headers, body = @app.call(env) session = env['rack.session'] Rails.logger.info("Value of session['foo'] is: " + session['foo'].inspect) [status, headers, body] end end You may not be able to write to...

...you want to manually check if e-mail delivery works on a machine by sending an e-mail you can run the following: mail -s Test someone@example.com < /dev/null

...send an empty e-mail with "Test" as its subject to someone@example.com. If you want it to contain a message body, call mail -s Test someone@example.com only; the mail application...

Note that we used $ and ^ to explicitly look at the end and start of the filenames...

...git pull won't know its remote version. You could use difficult commands to set up a branch's tracking but it's easier to...

...just push it like this: git push -u From the documentation on git push: -u, --set-upstream For every branch that is up to date or successfully pushed, add upstream...

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A perfect implementation of the wrong specification is worthless. By the same principle a beautifully crafted library with no documentation is also damn near worthless. If your software solves the...

...wrong problem or nobody can figure out how to use it, there's something very bad going on. Fine. So how do we solve this problem? It's easier than...

Here's a pretty useful steps that hasn't made it into Spreewald yet. It is best used with the auto-mapper for BEM classes in features/support/selectors.rb

...above [selector] element When /^I hover above (.*) element$/ do |selector| page.find(selector_for(selector)).hover end Example: When I hover above the album's image element → triggers a hover event...

...disable hiding URL parameters, open up Tools → Preferences (Ctrl+F12) → Advanced → Browsing and check "Show full web address in address field". No need to touch opera:config. The badge that...

...displays the page's "zone" (Web, Secure, Opera, ...) will be shrinked so you can still see a yellow lock for proper SSL connections, etc...

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In the DevTools settings, there's a "Shortcuts" section. Found these keyboard shortcuts there: General ESC Toggle drawer CTRL + ~ or CTRL + ` Show console in drawer Styles SHIFT + up/down

...debugging page repaint times) CTRL + hover above element in the DOM list Don't show the yellow dimensions tooltip (useful when the tooltip covers just the area you need to...

askubuntu.com

I was annoyed that RubyMine's autocompletion did not work via Ctrl+Space for me. In fact, it did not work in any application. Turns out that keyboard combination was...

...hijacked by Ubuntu as it's the default for switching input languages (i.e. keyboard layouts). If you use only 1 language/layout, you will not notice except for the key not...

You must reconfigure the guest so it will get its own IP address: Shutdown the guest In the guest's VirtualBox settings, choose Network and switch the network adapter type...

...Unix) or ipconfig (Windows) You can now connect to this IP address using HTTP, SSH, etc. Note that by doing this your VirtualBox guest is fully exposed on the local...

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...not play nice with gnome-open. You can fix the problem by uninstalling it: sudo apt-get remove exo-utils Note that this may also uninstall XFCE tools like xfce4...