Consider you have a website vhost listening to www.example.com, redirecting all incoming requests that do not talk about the configured...
Random list of useful git commands for advanced users. I found some of them useful.
If your application raises an error like ... Couldn't connect to the Solr server at http://127.0.0.1:8983/solr. 500 "Lock...
You can use fold: fold -sw 60 You can now paste your texts. fold will echo them back, word-wrapped...
When you drag a file from a Nautilus window into a terminal window, the file's path will be pasted...
The state_machine gem comes with a rake task that lets you generate PNG graphs from any model using state...
Whenever Firefox updates, all your Cucumber features that use Selenium break. This is annoying. In order to remedy this, version...
You can create a Regexp object from existing Regexp objects by using the interpolation syntax you know from strings:
Selenium does not speak SSL because it uses WEBrick that doesn't. When you use Selenium for Cucumber scenarios that...
Observed on Rails 2.3 and machinist 1.0.6 Like the title says, when you define the method empty? like in the...
There are many blog posts on encrypting backups, but none works for local drives. #How to Encrypt the external backup...
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating...
These methods are available to you: page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.accept page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.dismiss page.driver.browser.switch_to.alert.text # the confirmation text Spreewald gives you steps like these:
Simple: Tell the application controller how to handle exceptions, here a RecordNotFound error. Do this with the following line: # application_controller.rb...
Great blog with daily news and HOWTOs for Ubuntu, Linux and Gnome.
If you have a time given in a different time zone than your local one, parsing will convert it for...
DeaDBeeF is one of the better music players for Linux. You can find installation instructions here.
While it might seem trivial to implement an invoice that sums up items and shows net, gross and vat totals...
Calling Time#utc, Time#gmt or Time#localtime will not create a converted copy. Instead these methods modify the receiving...
Note that converting from RGB to CMYK will usually degrade your colors because no exact mapping is possible. Anyway, this...
Use the PDF toolkit: sudo apt-get install pdftk To rotate page 1 by 90 degrees clockwise: pdftk in.pdf cat...
Linux provides a fix number of filesystem watches. If you have some greedy daemon (like dropbox) running, chances are it...
After updating Rubygems you see a wall of deprecation warnings like this: NOTE: Gem::SourceIndex#add_spec is deprecated, use...
Note that if you plan to downgrade Firefox because your Selenium tests broke after a Firefox upgrade, there is a...