The following counts all the lines in all *.rb files in the app directory. Run several of these commands to...
YARD 0.6 adds the ability to serve documentation for gems as well as the current project with yard server. Just...
An alternative to this technique is using VCR. VCR allows you to record and replay real HTTP responses, saving you...
This will tunnel HTTP requests to one given domain and port through an intermediary SSH server: ssh -L 8080:targethost...
Open the configuration file: gksudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xterm Find a line like this: :co#80:it#8:li#24:\
Ubuntu lets you mount an SSH shell into Nautilus from Places -> Connect to server (select "SSH" as server type).
In a nutshell: to avoid your shell character set from messing with imports, use -r to export and SOURCE when...
From the shell: ls -l | wc -l
This may be awkward to set up, but will work once you're done. Fun facts:
Unless all MySQL server defaults are set to UTF-8, mysqldump encodes UTF-8 characters incorrectly and only outputs correct...
Some browsers render PNG images with color profiles and other shenanigans, some don't. The cleanest way to have consistent...
script/runner -e development 'Article.all.each { |a| a.image.reprocess! if a.image.exists? }; "done"'
We built cucumber_spinner to have a progress bar for Cucumber features, which also outputs failing scenarios as soon as...
To test concurrent code, you will need to run multiple threads. Unfortunately, when you use blocking system calls (e.g. locks...
See the lemonade descriptions. Unfortunately, the gem has a few problems: it does not work with Sass2...
When you need to patch an existing gem, one way is to "vendor" the gem by copying it into the...
To improve installation times of gems you can use the following approach: gem install xyz --no-document To permanently ignore...
This note shows how to merge an ugly feature branch with multiple dirty WIP commits back into the master as...
Append this to your ~/.bashrc: export PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \w\[\033[31m\]$(__git_ps1 "(%s...
Basic configuration Please keep this config simple. It should be a starting point for new developers learning Git. [user]
This is for people recovering from Subversion. Get an existing from the server for the first time git clone git@example.com...
You are getting when connecting via SSH or deploying with Capistrano (which uses SSH): Too many authentication failures for username...
This project is (or will be) a best effort semi-static verifier for your Ruby on Rails projects. Delivered as...
I was setting up a Subversion repository one year ago. Of course, I also wanted to have regular backups of...