We experienced problems with Sunspot and Solr on Tomcat: Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) were not correctly handled on Tomcat while...

You can now add code blocks without indentation, by using triple-backticks: ``` Code block goes here. ```

Sometimes it might be helpful to have a version history for a gem, e.g. when you want to see if...

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Some helpers for poking around at your Capybara driven browser's cookies in integration tests. Supports Capybara's bundled drivers...

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ProgressBar is a simple Ruby library for displaying progress of long-running tasks on the console. It is intended to...

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This describes all the steps you'll need to get Solr up and running for your project using the Sunspot...

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Gem to get Rails 3's new ActiveRecord query interface (where, order) and the new scope syntax (chaining scope definitions...

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Gem to get Ruby 1.9 features in Ruby 1.8.

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Code coverage for Ruby 1.9 with a powerful configuration library and automatic merging of coverage across test suites.

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I have no idea how it's supposed to work (or why the don't have a print CSS), but...

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ExpandAnimations is a LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org Impress extension to expand presentation animations before exporting to PDF. This way the exported PDF will...

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Ruby bindings for Sundown, a fast and full-featured Markdown parser that lets you define renders for arbitrary output formats...

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Framework to write command-line apps in Ruby. Comes with a nice way of processing parameter options, some utility classes...

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Git has a built-in repository viewer for your web browser. a bit similar (but less awesome) than github.

After starting the Rails server in a freshly generated Rails 3.1 project you could see an error message such as...

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Using git rebase can be painful but luckily you can resort to cheating with git reset and committing anew.

If Rails or Rake are complaining about a missing gem that is listed in your Gemfile.lock and the listed version...

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ExecJS lets you run JavaScript code from Ruby. It automatically picks the best runtime available to evaluate your JavaScript program...

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We forked craken today and fixed one of the issues we had with new (>0.8.7) rake versions. The craken:install...

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Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...

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Grit gives you object oriented read/write access to Git repositories via Ruby.

After updating Rubygems you see a wall of deprecation warnings like this: NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use...

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When browsing a repository, pressing "t" allows you to quickly search for file names. Very awesome! Go here to try...

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If you want to use the (badly implemented!) solarized color scheme in your Rubymine IDE: Clone the IntelliJ IDEA port...