Some folks have started to keep their linux configuration in a git repository called "dotfiles". This sounds like a good...
With gem dependency it is possible to check the dependencies for your gem before you install it.
Sometimes, when running a rake task, RubyGems 1.8.5 raises an error: rake aborted! undefined method `specifications' for "/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8":String
Because your examples should not change global state, you should not need to care about the order in which RSpec...
When running an executable, ALWAYS use bundle exec. In some cases, running executables without bundle exec may work, if the...
When your cucumber features grow massively over time, the test execution can take a lot of time.
After having written useful scripts into makandra notes for a long time, we’ve now tied them into a powerful...
Since May 2011 we are cutting new gems using Bundler, which is less painful than cutting gems using Jeweler. You...
Add deprecation warnings and their solution or link to available solutions. Global access to Rake DSL methods is deprecated. Please...
You will occasionally need to clean out your database while keeping the schema intact, e.g. when someone inserted data in...
Note that this sounds good but is not good at all when hooking tasks on cap deploy (see this article...
Plugins (and gems) are typically tested using a complete sample rails application that lives in the spec folder of the...
To only run the next two migrations: rake db:migrate STEP=2 To revert the previous two migrations:
power-rake db:migrate VERSION=20100913132321 By default the environments development, test, cucumber and performance are considered...
def task_with_hoptoad_notification(options) task(options) do begin yield rescue Exception => e Airbrake.notify(e) raise e
Update RubyGems and Passenger Bundler requires Rubygems >= 1.3.6. Run gem update --system if you have an older version.
Sometimes files attain executable-flags that they do not need, e.g. when your Windows VM copies them over a Samba...
When working with times and dates in Rails applications, you need to deal with the following problem: In Rails, Time...
Until May 2011 our gems have been created with Jeweler, which is a helper library to package code into a...
With defaults, RCov doesn't work the way you how you would like it to. To create a nice test...
Install gem and plugin sudo gem install parallel script/plugin install git://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests.git Adapt config/database.yml test: database: xxx_test<%= ENV...
sudo gem install gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc sudo gem install fast_gettext --no-ri --no-rdoc script/plugin install git://...
This starts delayed_job, hiding all the output and hiding the process in the background. rake jobs:work &>/dev/null &