Ubuntu comes with keyboard layouts like "Germany Eliminate Dead Keys", which are practical for programming. If you need to type...
This finally works: User.any_instance.should_receive(...) as does User.any_instance.stub(...) Note: You won't have RSpec 2.6 if you're still working...
Note that this card is very old. You might want to use ActiveType for your auto-coerced virtual attributes instead...
We usually generate our commit messages from Pivotal Tracker IDs and titles, like [#15775609] Index view for conflicts
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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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Regular expressions can have something called "zero-width look-behind assertions". This means that you want a pattern to be...
When you generate a URL in a mailer view, ActionMailer will raise an error unless you previously configured it which...
Install Ruby from the Ubuntu repository: sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev \ ruby is the meta package. If you...
cpulimit is a simple program which attempts to limit the cpu usage of a process (expressed in percentage, not in...
I've recently encountered a weird problem with specs making lots of SOLR queries using the acts_as_solr plugin...
Here are some popular mistakes when using nested forms: You are using fields_for instead of form.fields_for.
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These steps are now part of Spreewald. Since Capybara 0.4.1 a within scope will only look at the first element...
When you open up a story to only have a look at it, close it by pressing the "Cancel" button...
The step definition below allows you to write: Then I should see a link labeled "Foo" But I should not...
If you are exchanging files with a client via Dropbox you do not need to access the Web page every...
A common question in IT departments is whether to provide a capability by building custom software or by buying a...
If you want to have an English Ubuntu UI, but still see dates, money amounts, paper formats, etc. in German...
In shell scripts you can use $1 to refer to the first argument, $2 for the second, etc. If you...