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In Rails 2, you could use link_to_remote...
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VirtualBox does not offer anything for this task -- you need to do it yourself. It's not that hard:
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Here are some popular mistakes when using nested forms: You are using fields_for instead of form.fields_for.
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In order to rename your Ubuntu box, replace all occurences of the the old name in the following two files...
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This Perl script will run diagnostics on your MySQL database and recommend changes to your MySQL configuration.
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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
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An ancient essay on software design that, after 20 years, should still guide you for every line of code you...
When rendering a number, you want to pretty up the string coming from #to_s: Render 0.0 as 0
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