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...
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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...
Note that if you plan to freeze your Firefox versions because your Selenium tests break whenever Firefox updates, there is...
Sometimes the Rails helper #distance_of_time_in_words is using too much magic. When you need a time difference...
I recently browsed through the ActiveSupport code and found some nice stuff I did not know about: ActiveSupport::Callbacks
When the Ruby parser module of Ruby-GetText comes across a file in one of its search directories (e.g. lib/scripts...
Grep prints one line per match. To return the number if matches, use the -c switch: grep -c "something" filename...
If you want to use the (badly implemented!) solarized color scheme in your Rubymine IDE: Clone the IntelliJ IDEA port...
This article from the FreeBSD Handbook suggests that editing /etc/rc.conf enables DHCP. Unfortunately, some times this seems not sufficient.
We have a big flat screen TV (Samsung LE46c650l1kxxu) in our conference room. Configuring it properly, we were encountering some...
If you use Nginx with SSL and get an intermediate certificate with your certificate you have to do this:
Attached is a working config to deploy an application with Capistrano that needs to monitor Resque workers with God.